Ian’s policy statement at The Commons, in combination with the comment spamming I received a couple of weekends ago, prompts me to make this editorial policy statement regarding comments: As of today, comments will be open for one week on each post. So please speak your mind, civilly and quickly.
From Wired, Larry Lessig’s stump speech against protectionism. It’s good. And it’s pathetic that supposed dynamic innovators have to hear it.
The spring issue of Regulation magazine is full of good articles, including the Adelman article to which I referred yesterday. Another article worthy of careful reading is ?Economics at the Pump? by my colleague Bart Wilson and Cary Deck. They report on a set of experiments that they ran to explore the effects of different …
One of my favorite things about Technorati is that I find new and interesting sites. Today I found Bay Sense. Wowie.
Here’s an interesting San Jose Mercury News article from Tuesday about electricity policy in California. As I mentioned earlier in this post, there are competing electricity bills in the California legislature right now, and one of the issues of contention is direct access. The Mercury News article focuses on direct access and the Governor’s support …
Terry Anderson of PERC is one of my favorite people on the planet. He’s a good economist and an effective communicator of an optimistic vision of the positive relationship between economic growth and environmental quality. As such, he’s always been a role model for me. Terry’s got a commentary on this subject in Front Page …
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According to Forbes, Saudi Arabia is suggesting to its fellow OPEC members that they increase production to keep prices from exceeding $40/barrel. Reuters has a related story on the reasons behind the current high world oil prices. The Economist calls this a u-turn in the desert.
Interestingly, I stumbled across a review from someone who recently reread The Unbearable Lightness of Being, one of my favorite books. Interesting because in the past month I’ve discussed it with two of my close friends, one who I have known for decades and one who I have known for only a couple of years, …
FYI, Fukuyama’s review of Caldwell’s intellectual biography of Hayek. The review is an interesting read, and the book is on my too-lengthy must-read list.
A good exchance between Tyler Cowen and Randall Parker on the role of China’s growing energy demand in the world economy.
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