Sitemap - 2011 - Knowledge Problem
Music, Harmony, and Social Cooperation
How the Grinch Stole the Free Market
Breaking News: State Regulatory Procedures Do Not Favor Consumers
Happy Holidays, Traveling Grandma!
Superficial Journalism, Gps Watch Edition
Does a Public Good Argument Justify Subsidizing Private Energy Production?
Did the Federal Government Invent the Shale Gas Boom?
David Henderson on Crony Capitalism
Happy Birthday, Bill of Rights; You Will Be Missed
"Market Failure": You Keep Using That Term. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.
The Defense Authorization Act and Unlawful Detention
An Example of What Not to Do in Persuasion
Natural Gas is Too Cheap and Too Plentiful
Rory Sutherland on Subjective Meaning
Cost Savings and Value Creation Are Different
Is Subsidising Renewable Energy is a Good Way to Wean the World off Fossil Fuels?
Gas Exporting Countries Forum Wants Higher Output and Higher Prices
Massachusetts Observes That Green Power Mandates May Be Raising Consumer Costs
Stubhub and Major League Baseball
Paul Krugman Comments on Hydraulic Fracturing and Solar Power
Price Gouging Allegations on Cancer Drugs
A Good Non-Technical Introduction to Shale Gas
The "Gary Johnson Rule", the Political Economy of Election Bias, and Fundamental Principles
Wherein the Jobs Jobs Jobs Rhetoric Hampers Solar Power Development
When Price Ceilings Become Price Targets
On Belief in the Possibility of Price Spikes
Wired Uk Profiles Inventor James Dyson
The Beautiful Transmission Tower, the Glamorous Wind Turbine
Why Did Water Utilities in the U.S. Become Mostly Publicly Owned?
The Smart Grid and the Regulatory Barriers Thereto
Special Energy Section in Today's Nyt
Nest's Elegant Learning Thermostat -- but is It Transactive?
Exelon's John Rowe and Google's Eric Schmidt: Truth to Power?
What Do the Occupy Wall Streeters Care About? Haidt on the Moral Foundations of Ows
Energy Industry Continues to Reshape Itself to Fit the New World of Oil and Gas Resources
Video: Recent Data on Economic Freedom and Economic Growth
Horwitz and Carden on Corporatism
Levi: What The Nobel Prize Tells Us About Oil
A Political Economy Model for Occupy Wall Street
Markets Make You More Trusting, but Not Necessarily More Trustworthy
A Disturbing Historical Parallel: The Patriot Act and the Star Chamber
Boulton & Watt on New £50 Note
Smil's Brief List of the Pioneering Creators of Electric Systems
The Wsj's Confused Story on Gasoline Prices and Crude Oil Prices
Price Gouging Laws Wasted Resources During the Hurricane Irene Emergency
Paul Ryan's Review of Sachs' New Book
Students for Liberty Talk: Economics and Complexity
Demand for Gasoline is More Price-inelastic Than Commonly Thought
A Coasian Look at Pesticide and Genetic Drift
On the Obligations of Income-Earners and Property-Owners to Pay Taxes
Razor-Razorblade, Printer-Cartridge, ... Tablet-Media
New Economic Freedom of the World Report, and Some Suggestive Connections
Will Nebraska Hold Up Keystone Xl Pipeline? and Other Energy Stories in the News
A Great Relative Risk Graphic for Terrorism
Don’t Peak: On Ill-Considered Peak Oil Debates
At&t/T-Mobile Merger is About Spectrum, Redux
Resiliency Comes from More Risk of Bank Failure, Not Less
James Hamilton on Daniel Yergin on Peak Oil
Economist's Babbage Column on Network Reliability
More Oil Available in North America Than Previously Thought
Interstate Commerce in Electric Power - Arizona Policymaker's Two-faced View
At&t's History in a Nutshell
Authoritarian Hypocrisy and "Anything for Security"
Stimulus Failure: A Costly Lesson on Keynes and Say's Law?
Be Indomitable. Refuse to Be Terrorized.
Another Good Response to the Obama Administration's Mistaken Antitrust Policy
You Will Never Get a Railway Thereby ...
Quality, Broadband, and Spectrum: What the Doj's At&t/T-Mobile Lawsuit Misses
Beacon Power Patents Idea of Flywheels for Frequency Regulation?
Whales and Electricity, and Sustainability
Smart Appliances and the Innovation Cycle
Bastiat, Krugman, Horwitz on Earthquakes
Free the Electricity Consumer!
Biking and Climbing and Driving ... and Eating!
Passage of Wisconsin's Anti-price Gouging Bill Boosted by President Bush's Public Remarks
Post 9/11 Gasoline Price Gouging in Wisconsin: Two Views
Penn Jillette and Hayek: "I Don't Know"
Raising Mpg Standards, Part 1: Morris is Not Persuasive in His Claim That Cafe Works
Google, Motorola, and the Effects of Vertical Integration
Lomborg and Haab on Light Bulbs and Technology
Learn Liberty: Tragedy of the Commons
Cleantech Opportunity: Clean Water for Fracking
Devon Energy's Bet on Barnett Shale, Made 10 Years Ago, Has Paid off
Power Consumption Reaches New Peaks in Texas, Ercot Narrowly Avoids Rolling Blackouts
Epa to Power Industry: Don't Worry About Reliability, We Can Grant Waivers
The Unsustainable Fair Trade Business Model
At Freakonomics, the Realization That State Solar Power Policies May Be Less Than Optimal
Electricity Restructuring and the Failure to Quarantine the Monopoly
Open Up Bidding for Oil and Gas Leases on Federal Lands
Advisory Committee's Fracking Report Spurs Outpouring of Spin
Gasoline Taxes and Cafe Regulations
Monday Morning Debt Recommendations
Worried About Too Much Demand Elasticity in Electric Power Markets
Coase, Legal Liability, and Pesticide Drift
Blaming Obama for Global Equities Drops? Really?
Book Review: Mark Pennington's Robust Political Economy
Evaporative Cooling: Low Tech Method Good for Facebook's High Tech Facility
More Internal Review of the Nyt Shale Gas Skepticism Articles, More Dishonest Journalism Discovered
Overfishing Conference at Perc
Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself
Catching My Eye This Morning ...
Great Sports Journalism: Jason Gay on Jens Voigt
The Energy Industry Insiders That Didn't Bark
Quote of the Day: Hayek on Expediency and Freedom
Boettke on Cowen, Smith, Schumpeter, and Stupidity
NYT Editor on Shale Gas Skeptic Article: We Should Have Done Better
Scottish Wind Power Plants Paid Not to Produce
Role of Independent Producers in the Early Development of California's Oil and Gas Industry
Oil Markets Appear Unfazed by Announced Release of Oil from Strategic Reserves
Walmart Express, Market Definition, and Local Politics
Richard Epstein on a "Declining United States"
Protesting the Crime of Cycling While Skirted
New York Regulators Take Steps Toward Allowing Fracking for Natural Gas Production
Antitrust As the Enemy of Innovation, and Therefore the Enemy of Consumers
Appropriable Quasi-rents, Local Governments, and State and Federal Renewable Power Policy
Fiesta Bowl Wants Money Back from Politicians
In Search of Reports That Confirm or Support the New York Times Stories on Shale Gas Skepticism
John Hanger Reports the Shale Gas News Too Good to Print in the New York Times
Monday Afternoon Speed Blogging
Congressman Called for Gas Relief
Valuing Ecosystem Services is Difficult and Controversial
Enlightened Economic History: Honoring Joel Mokyr
Recommended in the Comments: Ten Fracking Things Everyone Should Know
Don't Bet Against Netflix, at Least Not Now
Science, Law, and Regulation of Fracking for Natural Gas in the Marcellus Shale
Senate Does Vote to Eliminate Ethanol Subsidies
Horwitz, Henderson, Hayek on the Police State
Economics of Power Market Design Compared Unfavorably to Climate Science
They Can't Even Pull off the Ethanol Subsidy Repeal ...
Distortionary Effects of Three-tier Liquor Regulation, Wisconsin Edition
Environmental Benefits from the Keystone Xl Pipeline
Virginia Postrel on Light Bulbs
Schumpeterian Tablet Competition
Saving Fisheries with Property Rights
A Voluntary Association Disaster Relief Update
Saying Goodbye to Edison's Hot Little Light Bulb?
Keystone Pipeline Leaks Boost Case for New Keystone Xl Pipeline and Other Energy Stories in the News
Price Gouging Op-ed Appears in the Washington Times
The Rhetoric of Regulation: Free Markets Are Regulated
Do Anti-price Gouging Laws Help the Victims of Natural Disaster?
Another Data Point on Oil and Gas Shale Fracking Profitability
Texas Legislature Passes Fracking Disclosure Bill
Civil Liberties and Economics: More Than Just Free Markets
CFTC Files Oil Market Manipulation Case
Eagle Ford Shale Providing Oil Production Boost
Hydraulic Fracturing Panel Discussion at Aei
Non-traffic Causes of Traffic Congestion
Michael Webber's "Energy at the Movies"
Abnormal Stock Market Returns for Members of the House of Representatives
Keystone Xl Pipeline Hyperbole Heats Up
Cheap Natural Gas Upsetting Wind Development Plans, and Other Energy Stories
Waxman to Koch Industries: "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Capitalist?"
"How Social Influence Can Undermine the Wisdom of Crowd Effect"
Ercot Reliability Monitor Issues Report on the February 2 Rolling Blackouts
Bonneville Power Administration Says No to Negative Prices Again
Gasoline Price Gouging Complaints Spur Kentucky, Maryland Attorneys General into Action
Economic Understanding: "There’s a Lot of Confirmation Bias out There"
"Dc, It's Not Just for Crazy People"
Study Finds No Groundwater Issues from Gas Well Fracking
Things That Caught My Eye: Subsidies, Wine, Leds, Dismal Economists
The Uk's Commitment to Carbon Reductions?
Spring Weekends in Chicago--athletics and Music Edition
The Fracking Song: Explainer with Lyrics and Links
Will Android@Home Help Make Smart Grid More Consumer-Centric?
Should Buildings Be Wired for Dc Power Distribution?
Study Finds Methane in Pennsylvania, Ny Groundwater Associated with Gas Well Fracking
Opportunities in Power Market Design: Wind Power, Capacity Markets, Optimization Software
Sidney Hook’s 1960 Review of Hayek's “The Constitution of Liberty”
Hayek and Dennett on the Design Fallacy
Hayek's Birthday, Hayek's Week, Hayek's Century
Fukuyama Reviews New Edition of Hayek's Constitution of Liberty
Oil and Gas Price Fraud Working Group Aims to Take the Air out of the Gasoline Price Parachute
Epri White Paper Surveys the Electrical Energy Storage Field
Matt Ridley Writing Up the Shale Gas Shock
Homeland Security: Eroding Your Human Rights Without Any Benefit-cost Analysis
Mark Perry: Gasoline Taxes Vs. Exxon Profit, Per Gallon
A Wal-mart Long-haul Truck Has More Intelligence in It Than a Typical Water System
Independent Monitor Finds No Market Abuse During Ercot Rolling Blackouts on February 2
Eia Releases Annual Energy Outlook 2011
Jonah Lehrer on Voter Ignorance
Homeowners Recoup Their Investment in PV Systems in California
Data Center Power Use Visualized
Using Regulation to Raise Rivals Costs
Entergy Says It Will Join the Midwest Iso
U.S. Attorney General: "It is Evident That There Are Regional Differences in Gasoline Prices"
Why Do Customers Want to Prepay for Electric Power Service?
Oil Speculator Witch Hunt, 2011 Edition
"What We Call 'smart Metering' Today Will Business As Usual Tomorrow."
Why Do Credit Rating Agencies Still Have Any Credibility?
Pandering, Politicians, and Oil Prices
Fracking Regulation Just Became a Little Bit More Difficult
Learnliberty.org: Unplanned Order
BPA Continues Not to Have a New Plan for Handling Excess Renewable Power Production
Regulatory Inertia, Antitrust Edition
Natural Gas Fracking News Update
Price Gouging Interview on the Radio
Gusher of BP Oil-spill Fund Creates "Spillionaires"
Next Restaurant: Pricing and Ticketing Innovation Redux
A Once-stable Price Now Responding to Demand Changes Brings Price Gouging Charge
Model Oil and Gas Resource Development Regulations for Arkansas
Arizona Regulators Can Require Utilities to Buy Renewable Power Even if It Raises Consumer Rates
Government Shutdown: Shouldn't We Be Asking Some Deeper Questions?
The International Possibilities of Petroleum from Shale Will Reshape Markets
Goose Island: What if Acquiring Capital Cannibalizes Your Market?
More on the Trade Dependence Meme
John Asked for a Cycling Post ...
Law Does Not Evolve Apace with Economic Dynamism
Market Design Helps People Attain Goals Effectively
Kauffman Econ Bloggers Forum Today!
Onion: Fruit, Vegetable, or Economics Rag?
Where Are the Female Economist Bloggers?
Adam Smith Symposium: Smith As Virtue Theorist?
New Atmospheric Research on Contrails
Commercial, Merchant Compressed-air Energy Storage Plant Under Development?
Economics Error: Trade Makes People "Dependent"
How Can Property Rights in Subsurface Water Work in West Texas?
Update: Industry, Environmental Group Working on Shale Gas Drilling Rules
The Att/t-mobile Merger and Spectrum Policy
Dignity and Liberty for Ordinary People Brings Social Growth and Development
Meanwhile, More "Power Market and the State" Battles in New Jersey and Maryland
Would a 'pennsylvania Power Authority' Be Good for Pennsylvanians?
"The Problem with Price Gouging Laws"
Price Gouging for Potassium Iodide Pills
Is Economics a Science? (liquidity Trap Edition)
Deirdre Mccloskey on Bourgeois Dignity
Will Wilkinson on the Economics of Disasters
Update on "Will Faking a Consumer Cartel Help Make Power Markets More Efficient?"
Netflix Recommendations: Deep or Random?
Reason on Energy: Nuclear Power and Light Bulbs
BPA Still Won’t Pay Negative Prices to Get Wind Power Producers to Curtail
Price Gouging News Roundup (march 2011)
For Libertarians and Those Who Love Them
Rob Harmon at Tedxranier: How the Market Can Keep Streams Flowing
CERA Week and Smart Grid "Thought Leadership"
Hayek's Knowledge Problem Wielded Like a Scalpel
Russ Roberts on Japan, Summers, and the Broken Window
Another Economic Illiteracy Alert, This One from Larry Summers, Ph.d.
Economic Illiteracy Alert of the Day: Ag. Secretary Tom Vilsack
Progress Toward a Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Thwarted by Shale Gas
Fracking Wastewater Not Causing Radioactivity Issues in Pennsylvia Rivers
A Triple-Dividend from Pigovian Gasoline Taxation?
Singing About Pricing (Is It, Too, Like Dancing About Architecture?)
New York Times Article Advances Public View of Environmental Issues Surrounding Hydrofracking
New Working Paper: Mirror Neurons, Adam Smith, and Sympathy
Intrusive Tsa Searches Create Profit Opportunity for Adidas
Faruqui and Toney Debate Smart Meters and Dynamic Pricing
Zone Pricing Ban Proposal Advances in Connecticut, Zone Price Ban Law in New York Still Not Working
Streetwise Professor: Bootleggers and Baptists in Russia
The Steady Sun and Clean Wind ... Not!
Another Comment on United States V. Keyspan Corporation
You Think the Kids Are Alright? Well Look at This Tiny Blue Pin on My Shirt and Think Again
John List's $10 Million Crazy Idea Field Experiment in Education
The Law on Fracking Oil and Gas Wells
Ups Turns to Lng, Not Cng, for Natural Gas Fueled Long-haul Trucks
Crude Oil Prices Reacting to the Middle East, North African Unrest
More on Cushing and the Wti-brent Crude Oil Price Spread
Effects of Anti-price Gouging Legislation on Supply Chain Dynamics
For-profit Corporations Can't Be Trusted
If Truth is What Your Freshmen Students Let You Get Away With, Then...
How Has My Happiness Varied over Time?
The Geography of Ethanol's Support in Congress
Is the Deregulated Market in the Ercot Region Sufficiently Competitive?
Bye-bye Wti? Local Conditions May Sink Global Oil Price Benchmark
Demsetz Discusses Coase's Mistake on Pigou and Social Costs
Fair Trade for Coffee May Be Good, But...
Ercot Rolling Blackout News: Powerful Market Forces Already at Work
Ercot Blackout Hearings Underway in Texas State Senate
Why Do Americans Drive More Than Europeans?
An Experimental Test of Automated Market Power Mitigation Finds the Procedures Work
Nate Silver's Valentine to Huffington Post Bloggers...
Can We Count on Cheap Natural Gas for Decades to Come?
Good News and Bad News from Price-spike Induced Failure of Retail Power Company in Texas
Roundup of News and Commentary on the Texas Rolling Blackouts
Gmu Economists Conflict on Hayek and the Discovery of Efficient Laws, I Think
Haidt on Political Bias Among Social Psychologists
What About Electric Bikes? and Regular Bikes? and Can I Get a Pony?
More Cold for Texas and a Test of My Conjecture on Preparedness
Transmitting Power from Mexico to Texas
Joan Robinson on the Two Koreas in 1977
We Don't Need a Geothermal Portfolio Standard
The Natural Gas That Didn't Come in from the Cold
Better Living Through Applied Statistics: Cracking Scratch-off Lottery Games
Hernando Desoto, Property Rights, and Egypt
Texas Observer: Some Companies Made Millions Off the Texas Blackouts
Cold Snap Brings Rolling Power Outages to Texas; is Ercot Policy of Isolation at Fault?
Think Globally, Solve Locally?
United States V. Keyspan Corporation Antitrust Case Settles for Paltry $12 Million
From the "No Surprises Here Department": Price Controls Cause Chaos in Ethiopian Markets
Investors Using Municipal Power Company Borrowing to Maximize Private Returns?
U.S. Military Aid Funds Tear Gas Used to Repress Peaceful Protestors in Egypt
Understanding Libertarian Morality: "Regulations Trigger a Sense of Resistance in Me"
I Detect a Fundamental Tension in This Headline on Wind Power
Dear President Obama: You Don't "Win" Economics
The U.s. As Natural Gas Exporter?
State of the Union Watching Advice: Don't.
An Act Purporting to Ban Gasoline Zone Pricing in Connecticut
Ethanol Blather Courtesy of the Epa and the Financial Times
What Has the Eu Ever Done for Us? Carbon Edition
Troubles, from the Point of View of the Solar Power Industry
Some Economics of Tsa Policies
Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Not Living Up to California Program's Expectations
More on Evergreen Solar's Move to China
It's Lysander Spooner's Birthday Too!
Is Rationalizing Regulation Even Possible Through Political Processes?
Evergreen Solar Moves Manufacturing to China
Jay Hancock is Not Happy with the Pjm Power Market
BPA Won't Pay Negative Prices to Get Wind Power Producers to Curtail
Please State the Nature of the Economic Emergency: a Note on Price Gouging Laws
Julian Simon and John Tierney Were Just Lucky, He Guesses
A Revival of Interest in the History of Economic Thought?
Randomized Testing for Online Fundraising Appeals
When Helping Hurts: Randomized Experiment Shows Free Legal Aide Delays Unemployment Benefits
Rob Bradley Jr. Wishes His Organization Was Smaller and His Work Was Less Valuable
Would Granting Futures Exchanges CopyRight Protection for Prices Deter Some Market Manipulation?
The Tsa's Wholesale Violation of Our Civil Rights, Including Economic Liberty
An Example of Ways Poorly Constructed Markets Can Fail
My Grid-interop Talk: Regulation's Role in Stifling Innovation
Macroeconomic Implications of Residential Electricity Consumption
Hello [Tap Tap Tap] ... is This Thing On?
Energy News and Outlook: Meet the New Year, Same As the Old Year