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Social Snowflakes

Should We Be Bugged About Not Drilling in Anwr?

David Friedman's "Ideas"

Cough Syrup As a Controlled Substance

Don't Eat Those Cookies!

Taking Advantage of the Fair Trade Buzz

A Little Kp Hiatus

Does Cheap Fashion Undercut Designers?

Opinion Journal: Laffer and Giordano Miss The Point

Worstall on Energy

Creative Destruction is Healthy

Upward-sloping Demand?

She Lives!

Wi-fi, Commons, and Exclusion Costs

The Democratization of Fashion

Demand Response Progress and Challenges

Entertainment, Hockey, and "Market Power": Comcast and Echostar

Barbecue in Lockhart

War of the Words: Google and Amazon

Hot Lanes Coming to the Nation's Capital

How Much Profit Is Too Much?

Quantum Dots Accidentally Replace Incandescent Lighting?

Juries, Eminent Domain, and Public Choice

Marketing and Selling Hybrid Vehicles

Rockets and Feathers

I'm Shocked, Shocked to Find Competitive Dynamics Going On

<em>Wired</em> Articles on Power Technology

Apology

Biometric Transactions Arrive in Chicago

Does Game Theory Generate Testable Predictions?

A Chilly, Expensive Winter

The Energy Policy Act and Cogeneration - What the Qf?

Wine Shipping Costs: A Benefit-cost Analysis

Schelling and Aumann

"Great Ideas" from Penguin Books

Econobrowser on Refining

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Private Sector Development Blog

Who is Your Favorite Candidate for the Supreme Court?

Thinking Out Loud About Resource Adequacy

Beating the High Cost of Natural Gas

Wsj Econoblog on Post-katrina Policy

Greed, and Comfortable Prejudices

You Tell 'em, Kevin

What Passes for Logic in Utility Finance

Long Day

Professor Sullivan Rocks!

Adam Smith Lives!

Resource Adequacy, Investment, and Capacity Markets in Electricity

Change of Case

Price Wars: Attorneys General Strike Back

Name That Tune!

This ... Or This?

E.e. Cummings

What a Crazy Week: Franz, Kurt, Etc.

The Paper River Experiment

Is It Gouging for Politicians to Charge $1000 for a Meal?

Governors Pile on the "Price Gouging" Bandwagon

The Porkbusters Idea Gathers Speed

Why Yes, There is Elasticity in the Demand for Gasoline!

The Place for Property and Commons

Adam Smith on the Politics of "People of Fashion"

Windfall Profits? Spare Me

France Repeals the Laws of Economics (Hee Hee!)

My, How They Talk!

This and That

Some Random Thoughts About Yesterday's La Blackout

Moral Hazard and City Location

Kevin Brancato on "Price Gouging"

More on Prices and Information: Ebay and Skype

Adrian Moore on Refinery Capacity

"Price Gouging" is a Non-concept

Prices As Information Transmitters

Back from Up North

Is There a Silver Lining in This Non-Sequitir?

Jave Jive or Jive Talking?

Moneyball Vs. Old School on the Sacrifice Bunt

Tax Collectors Feel Pain at the Pump

Regulators Clash on Air Quality and Electric Reliability

KP Northwoods Style

An Even Better Statistic on Gasoline Household Spending

Internal Consumption of Ethanol

Gas Price Relative to Median Income Has Fallen

Summary of Reasons Why Oil and Gasoline Prices Are Currently So High

Hawaii Price Cap Post at Coyote Blog

Welcome New Readers

Moralizing About Suvs

Hawaii Institutes Wholesale Gas Price Cap

Cafe = Completely Absurd Fuel Economy Standards

More On Power Markets And Reliability

Significant Improvement Since The Blackout?

Is President Bush A Smithian?

Ba Strikes, Catering, Outsourcing, Contracting

The Bike Is Good For The Soul

Willingness To Pay To Avoid Extinction

Competition Induces Pricing Change At Royal Mail

Eric Mcerlain On The NHL/OLN Deal

Methane Capture In Bangladesh

Chinese Demand For Oil

Econometrics In Advertising

Oil And Fuel Price Summary, And Musing On Comparative Advantage

Google To Build National Wifi Network?

Leclair To My Team!

Pete Boettke On James Buchanan, And Implications In Electricity

Will Espn Practice Strategic Entry Deterrence?

Vernon Smith's Electriciy Op Ed In Today's Wall Street Journal

Nhl Broadcast Deal: Oln?

"Le Parfait Est L'ennemi Du Bien" In Technology Choice

Winds Of Change New Energy Currents For August

What Is A Commodity, Exactly?

Branding And Specialization

Couple Of Energy Bill News Links

Adam Smith And The "Man Of System"

FCC Rules That DSL Is An "Information Service"

Responsibility And Liberty In Darwin

The Illinois Stake In The Energy Bill

"Energy Bill Is Good Policy For Agriculture"

Recommended Reading: Environmental Economics

Rent Seeking: Is The Energy Bill Really A Farm Bill?

More Sports Contracts: Cycling Teams

New Nhl Rule Proposals: Incentive Effects

Breaking The Nhl Silence-bargaining Errors

Eff's 15th Anniversary: Celebrate Freedom

A Musical Interlude

Eminent Domain Threats Suffocate Organic Development

Whitman And Wilkinson On Changing Preferences

Sprawl As A Tax On Spontaneity

Sunstein's Post On Wikipedia And Hayek

Steve Recommends Tour Video Highlights

Tour Stage 14; Robbie and Lance

Lou's Musings From Preston Vineyards

Pataki Signs New York Wine Shipment Law

Ray Gifford On Bpl

New Environmental Economics Blog

Bill Gross And Solar Power

More On Property Rights As Human Rights

Mill, Free Speech, And The Discovery Process

Russ Roberts And The Organic Economy

The Acid Rain Retirement Fund

The Scientific Method In Economics

Mill's Harm Principle And Flossie

Tour: Comin' Up The Hill To Courchevel

Property Rights, Human Rights, Civil Rights

Two New Reports on the Boutique Fuel Problem

Follow The Tour With Blognor Regis

Ihs Seminar Blogging From California

Take Courage

Google And Goldman Invest In Bpl Technology Firm

Not Much To Say

Eu Rejects Us-style Software Patents

Online Tour De France Coverage

Tierney On Eminent Domain In Pittsburgh

Know Your Rights

Off To Bryn Mawr

New York's New Wine Shipment Rule

Economics Of Kelo At Volokh

Property Rights Are Human Rights. And Vice Versa

Welcome Liberty Belles!

Grid-friendly Appliances Can Avert Blackouts And Delay Investment

Off To Work

Two Of My Words Collide Through Marketing

Soaking The Rich Is Not The Paradigm Shift Germany Needs

Hahn And Sunstein On The Precautionary Principle

There Oughtta Be A Law (Apologies To Radley)

Competition And Choice Benefit Those Who Exercise It

An Eloquent Argument For Puhca's Repeal

Conflicted About Grokster

Energy Bill To Conference: Now The Tough Work Begins

More Good Kelo Analyses

KP Housecleaning

Mit Media Lab's Weblog Research

More Good Kelo Commentary

Supreme Court Kelo Decision An Economic Travesty And Injustice

Recommended Blog Reading

A Beautiful Day In Portland, Oregon

New Energy Currents At Winds Of Change

Senate Debates Energy Bill Today

Concert Ticket Sales Exploit Poverty?

Triathlon Weekend

Ebay's Tenth Birthday

Tagged As A Bibliophile

Women's Euro 2005 Football

Google Frank Lloyd Wright

Articulating The Benefits Of Competition

Flowers And Fences

Energy Market Enthusiasts

Spring in the KP Garden

Futurepundit On Trust

Michael Totten On The Eu Constitution

Trust Hormones And Impersonal Exchange

Musician Credibility And Popularity: A False Dichotomy

Left2right: Hayek On The Institutions Of A Free Society

The Meaning Of "Non"

Circuit Breakers In Commodity Markets

Liverpool's Champion's Cup Win

Warren Buffett, Pacificorp, And Institutional Change In Electricity

Networks And Disciplinary Boundaries

Freakonomics Seminar At Crooked Timber

A Misguided Criticism Of Texas Electricity Deregulation

Reputation Mechanisms And Network Reliability

Darth Vader And Social Distance

The Same Good Can Take On Different Values

More On The Use Of The "Scarlet Letter" In Electric Reliability

NU Women's Lacrosse Team Wins NCAA!

Will Improvements In Ethanol Production Undo Political Support?

Gordon Van Welie, CEO, ISO-New England

New Energy Currents At Winds Of Change

Gasbuddy + Google Maps = Cheap Gas

One Look At The Duke-Cinergy Merger

The Force Is Strong(er) In This One

Mt Problem Solved

Pop The Cork, Then Pull The Plug

Supreme Court's Decision To Free The Grapes

Mt Problem

Off To Colorado (darn)

Congrats To Todd Zywicki!

Follow Up On Mike's Priority Insurance Links

Colorado Utility Penalized $5.6 Million For Power Outages

Order: Emergent, Unplanned, Spontaneous

New Mt Installation Complete

Metering And Pricing Activate Electricity Demand In California

Should Young People Read Books?

Nerc Compliance And The Scarlet Letter

More Energy Bill Stuff

Competition Lowers Prices? You Don't Say!

Eat Fat To Lose Fat?

The Value In Shifting Nox Emissions In Time And Space

Maryland State Official Requires Gasoline Stations To Raise Prices

The Economist On Kicking The Oil Habit

An Argument Against Voting

Donald Shoup: Free Parking Isn't Free

Jefferson's Cartesian Rationality

More On Petroleum Consolidation

David Warsh On Daron Acemoglu

Acemoglu Wins Clark Prize

A Snotty Comment On Aeroport Charles De Gaulle

Consolidation In The Oil Industry: Valero/premcor

Disinterested Party: Oil Prices Will Fall

The House Energy Bill

Home Again, Home Again

An Interesting Food Pairing

Energy Bill Passes House

Peak Oil: Static Assumptions?

Mccracken On Exploitative And Explorative Modes In Firms

France And The EU Constitution

Back In Paris; More On Chocolate

A Quick Nuclear Risk Follow Up To Arnold

A Methodology For The Emulation Of B-trees

The Future Is Uncertain, Plan Accordingly

New Blog: Ragged Thots

Some Chicago Links

More On German Regulation

F&amp;W's Observations On The UK Elections

Germany's Regulatory Climate: Stifling?

Methanol Energy Storage For Ibm Thinkpads

Chocolate Decadence: Patrick Roger

An Interesting Auction Institution in Hamburg's Fischmarkt

Paris-roubaix Bicycle Race This Sunday

Macroblog On Energy Prices

Ownership Structures As Alternatives To Traditional Regulation?

Palgrave Entry On Hayek Available Online

The French Paradox

Hugh Laurie And "House"

A Commons Experiment In Luxembourg Gardens

Running In Les Jardins Du Luxembourg

Chevrontexaco Buys Unocal

The Metaphor Of Organic Growth

Cubs Opening Day

Economics In One Lesson Online

Bienvenue A Paris

Arthur's Seat's Mini Saga Contest

Peak Oil Optimist On California Electricity

KP Takes It On The Road To France

Peering Into The Black Box

Subsidies Benefit Whom?!?

Reason's Critique Of Pure Riesling

Some More Overdue Links To Good Reads

Will California See Blackouts This Summer?

Embrace The Complexity

BPL Legislation In Texas

Extreme Ironing

How Cool Is This? Nanotech Hydrogen Storage

Upper Class Twit Of The Year

Upcoming Deadline For Ihs Seminars

Execrable

Russ Roberts And Barry Schwartz On Choice

What Are Your Top 20 Monty Python Skits?

Peridot Capital On Fuel Costs

A New Read: Fey Accompli

Hedging Fuel Prices: Using Politics Or Using Markets?

Wsj Article On Txu's Feather Ruffling, But That's Not What Bothers Me

Hotelling Behavior: Chocolate On Michigan Avenue

Amity Shlaes On Wolfowitz And Bolton

Nanny Communications Regulation

Manhattan's Knitting Culture And Economics

Should Governments Provide Price Signals? No, They Can't Do It

Let Me Reiterate: Comments And Trackback Not Working For Now!

Cowboy Footwear As a Cultural Moment

Oxfam Looking To Reduce Productivity Or Transfer Wealth?

New Gao Report On Energy Demand In The 21st Century

OPEC To Boost Oil Production By 2 Percent In April

Recipe Du Jour: Carbonades Flamandes

Knitress Was Right On Both Counts

Anti-Choice Arguments And Adaptive Institutional Design

London's East End and the Dynamism Meme

A Quick Foodie Report from London

Candid, You Know, Candid Photography

I Agree With Tom On This One Point

Where In The World Is Lynne?

Senate Bill S.498: Removing Barriers To Competition?

Oil Info? Check Out The Capital Spectator

More On Last Week's Cranky Electric Consumer

Who's Stifling Competition To Keep Prices High In Telecom?

Guest Post On Institutional Change: Ian Cook

Difficult Thinking About Institutional Change Iv: Use Rights, Rules, And Change Processes

New Senate Electricity Legislation: A New Hope?

New Senate Electricity Legislation

Friday Coco Catblogging

The Manolo And La Coquette

Did Martha Knit Her Own Poncho?

Integrated River Basin Management In Canada

Lynne's Stylish New Faculty Web Page

It's That Time Of Year: Fuel Switchover

Is Economics Just Another Applied Math Field?

The Cranky Consumer On Electricity "Deregulation"

The Two Faces Of Enron: The Link

Difficult Thinking About Institutional Change Iii: Ostrom's Design Principles

The Two Faces Of Enron

Solar Nanotech Breakthroughs

Adam Thierer On Telecom Mergers

Composed, Elegant, And Authoritative

How Much More Obvious Does Rethinking Spectrum Policy Have To Be?

Sidewalk Theory's Newspaper Database

Difficult Thinking About Institutional Change Ii: Organic Or Ordered Competition?

Difficult Thinking About Institutional Change Ii: Organic Or Ordered Competition?

Difficult Thinking About Institutional Change I: A Claim And A Question

Other New Reads

Economics In Hip Hop?

Wsj's Telecom Editorial Today

Eminent Domain For Commercial Development: Scotus Hears About It

Learning Policy Lessons From New Zealand

Institutions Are Capital

"This Is, In Short, A Good Way To Think"

More On Nuclear Energy

Green Energy, Tidal, Solar, Nuclear

Deodorants And Antiperspirants: A Regulator?s Viewpoint

Catallarchy On Neal Stephenson's Subtlety

Vosges Chocolate For Valentine's Day

Wsj's Risky Proposals And Sweetheart Deals For Valentine's Day

Another Thought About The Sugar Industry

The Sugar Industry Attacks Splenda

Alex On Copenhagen Consensus

Conservation Through Private Initiative

Encaustic Tile

Creators Bridging Two Genres: Beethoven And Mill

Moving From Posted Price To Auction

Tcs Article On The Long Tail

More On Social Networks And Recommendations

Social Network Modeling For Tastes

FERC Staff Report On Reactive Power: Part Of The Institutional Change Process

Apple Mini Resales Bugging Steve Jobs?

Busy, Busy

Critical Peak Pricing Isn't Ideal, But It's A Start

A Long Tail Without Good Filters Is Just Noise

Thoughts On An SBC/AT&amp;T Merger

Economist Skills And Map Reading Skills: Correlated?

What Is The Macarthur Foundation Doing?

Daniel Drezner's Post On Airline Deregulation

Adam Smith On Monopolies, Rents, And Airports In Switzerland

Christina Rosen: Joining Cass Sustein As Modern Nannies?

Wsj On Michael Powell

FCC Chairman Michael Powell To Resign

The Wgn Weather Blog

Some Fresh Brain Candy

Revolutions In Knowledge, Useful And Otherwise

Alphabetical "Mysteries Of Pittsburgh"

A Study Of What Is Not

A Study Of What Is Not

Competitive Dynamics At Pittsburgh International Airport

Comment Goofiness

Rock Is Dead: Long Live Paper, Scissors

Light Posting

Vino Venue

Cell Phone Shushing

While We're In A Music Vein ...

If You Miss Whfs, Try Woxy On For Size

Sun-times Article On Residential Demand Response Program

Why Is Love Blind?

?And Then Came Something Listeners Hadn?t Heard Before?

Networks As Regulators And West Coast Jazz

Networks As Regulators And West Coast Jazz

Couple Of New Links

Is Ibm's Patent Move A Move Away From Property Rights?

Pucci to Brighten a Dreary, Rainy Day

Waste Is Efficient?

Why Did Investment In Transmission Peak In 1982?

Wired Interview With Jeff Bezos

Wine Review: Edna Valley Paragon Vineyard Syrah 2002

Markets For Everything And The "Make Or Buy" Decision: The Professional Kitchen

More On Clarity In Discussing Probability

Explaining Reactive Power

The Math Behind The "Once In A Century" Statement

Shovelin' in a Winter Wonderland

Rising To Ray's Bait Regarding Ryne Sandberg

'Splain Me This: Posner On Catastrophe

Tom Casten Says Decentralize Energy Use