Lynne Kiesling … he just doesn’t realize it, or doesn’t know that it’s an established regulatory concept. Recently in his Undercover Economist blog, Tim Harford picked up on an idea floated by another FT columnist: … we need tariff schemes that encourage conservation. One option is “reverse pricing”, a simple framework that would increase the …
Lynne Kiesling I noticed recently that Steve Levitt opined briefly on the health care bill in ways that are consistent with my earlier argument that unless Congress tackled the third-party payer problem head on they would be wasting our time and money. In his Freakonomics post, Levitt recommends Gary Becker’s analysis to us: In Becker’s …
Lynne Kiesling We were in Columbus, Ohio over the weekend and early this week and, not surprisingly, the airwaves were full of news of a new ad campaign to rehabilitate ethanol and, in the words of one of the news stories we heard, “correct myths about ethanol”. So are they saying that it’s a myth …
Lynne Kiesling Last week I was honored to spend a couple of days at St. Lawrence University with Steve Horwitz and his students and colleagues. In addition to giving a talk on regulation and technological change in the electricity industry, I gave a guest lecture in an environmental economics class and participated in a reading …
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Lynne Kiesling If you are currently working as a state regulator or a member of regulatory staff, then I cannot encourage you strongly enough to apply to attend this May’s Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics: The IRLE is sponsored by the University of Colorado’s Silicon Flatirons Center to sharpen the tools required for principled …
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Lynne Kiesling Hey students! If you are a KP reader and you are looking for an experience this summer with good brain candy that’s a lot of fun, then check out the week-long summer seminars offered by the Institute for Humane Studies. There are a range of topics and focus areas, but most seminars involve …
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Lynne Kiesling If you are in Washington, DC and interested in electricity policy, then I hope I will see you at this upcoming event at the American Enterprise Institute on Thursday afternoon. Why is the process of restructuring and institutional change so different in electricity than in other infrastructure industries? What is the current status …
Lynne Kiesling I continue to be thoroughly disgusted by the disingenuousness of the health care policy debate in Washington. From a public choice perspective I understand why the debate continues to focus on what I think are the tangential and ancillary questions, and the attempts to tweak and improvise around the edges … but my …
Health Care: End Third-party Payer, or Stop Wasting My Time and Money Read More »
Lynne Kiesling Several years ago Jamie Oliver set out to improve school food for a group of British children. In part he was motivated by wanting to impart a love of good, healthy food in children by sharing his own joy in food, and in part he believed that healthier school meals would lead to …
Jamie Oliver, Children and Food, and Field Experiments Read More »
Lynne Kiesling Here’s a paper that befits the snowy month we’ve had in the U.S. … Jonathan Zinman and Eric Zitzewitz at Dartmouth find that ski resorts over-report snowfall, and that the proliferation of iPhones has led to more consumer information on accurate snowfall and ski conditions. The paper abstract: Casual empiricism suggests that deceptive …
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