Sitemap - 2012 - Knowledge Problem

Best Wishes for 2013

Dr. Ehrlich, Call Your Office

Landsburg on Pigou and Coase

Deck the Halls with Macro Follies!

Economics Research Topics in Price Gouging from Odd-even Rationing to Guilt and Shame

Is the Great Society a Less Mobile One?

New York Newspaper Says "Add Shame to Penalty for Gouging"

New Yorkers Didn't 'share the Pain' of Higher Gasoline Prices During Emergency

Another Round of Price Gouging Charges in New York

The Most Profitable Oil Field in the World

Adam Thierer on Crony Capitalism and Technology Policy

Physical and Virtual Aren't Always Substitutes

A Tip of the Hat to Popehat

I, Pencil: The Movie

Disruptive Innovation in Education

Two New Blogs of Note

Which States Have Price Gouging Laws?

Some More Worthwhile Price Gouging Links

Regulation's Effects on Innovation in Energy Technologies: the Experimentation Connection

New York State Also Moves Quickly on Price Gougers

Headline: "Gov. Christie Expects Property Taxes to Rise in Sandy-ravaged Areas"

Before Getting Too Excited About the Iea's Forecast of Us Oil Production Leadership...

Gasoline Supply Chain Stories in Post-sandy New Jersey and New York

Columnist Alleges Post-sandy Pizza Price Gouging

New Jersey Moves Rapidly on Price Gouging Investigations

Mark Thoma on Price Gouging

Thomas Sowell on Price Gouging

The One-sided Debate over Price Gouging

List of State Anti-price Gouging Laws

Price Gouging: Can Economics Justify a Price Cap?

Power Demand Dropping? Must Be Time to Raise Prices!

Fossil Energy Subsidies and Renewable Energy Competitiveness

So Much Oil That We Don't Need Infrastructure to Develop It?

An Economic Analysis of Governance in Cycling

"Please, Sirs, May I Have Some More ... Subsidies for Wind Power?"

Matching, Markets, and Morality

Matching and a Static Environment

Updated Theme

Roth/shapley Nobel

Lifecycle Analysis: Environmental Impact of Electric Vehicles Ambiguous

Hobbes' Leviathan is 350 Years Old!

It's Nobel Week!

Yes, Our Patent System is Broken

Are New Jersey ‘outsiders’ More Likely to Be Accused of Price Gouging?

Coasean Taxes and Other Energy Economics Stories

Antitrust and Google Search Bias

Just How "Wasteful" Are Data Centers?

Dolan on the Wptc and Energy Policy

Enron and Crony Corporatism

A Proposal for Fisk Power Plant: Museum of History and Industry

Any Reason to Be Worried About Wind Power Industry Layoffs?

‘Demand Response’ in Electricity: Economists Vs. FERC on (Over)Pricing

Cato Unbound's "Empirics of Austrian Economics"

Can Airports Be Green? With a Little Greenwashing They Can!

Economic Freedom of the World: We're #18!

The Lifx Lightbulb: Bringing the Internet of Things to Electricity

Gmo Bans and Labeling Laws

Negative Power Prices Due to Wind Power's Subsidy

A Fashion Coda on Wireless Charging

Is Wireless Charging Finally Going to Take Off?

Mystery of Free Energy Storage Apparently Solved by Texas Retailer Offering 100-percent Wind Power Deal

Are 'outsiders' More Likely to Be Accused of Price Gouging?

Automating Activities Helps Us Thrive: Three Examples

Regulation: A Primer

Whither Solar Power in the Us?

Can We Finally Get the Ethanol Mandate Monkey off of Our Backs?

Economic Vs. Civil Liberties?

Some Friday Morning Links

Did China Cause North Dakota's Oil Boom?

Obsolete Boutique Fuels and Failure to Arbitrage

Bastiat, Hayek, Eurozone

More on Rebound, Backlash, and the Jevons Effect

Starbucks' Energy Efficiency Competition

An Austrian Theory of Cooking ... or a Cooking Metaphor for Austrian Entrepreneurial Theory

An Invisible Hook Q&a, and Other Items of Interest

Economic Theories As Recipes

Financial Regulations Add Burden to Wind Power Projects

Nest Thermostat Featured on Cbs Sunday Morning

Gayer & Viscusi: Energy Efficiency Regulations, the Environment, and Consumer Sovereignty

Losing the Race to Sound Conclusions on the Production Tax Credit

Something Not-so-funny Happened on the Way to the Smart Grid: Xcel, Boulder and the Colorado Puc

Newspaper Report Implicates Politicians, Industry Insiders in Attempt to Manipulate Renewable Credits Market

Any Economic Historians in the Audience Who Can Spot Check This Energy Development Claim?

The Rebound Effect: the Aceee Strikes Back

How Does Solar Power Work?

Federal Government is Trying to Fix Your Car-buying Mistakes

Trying to Fix Ferc's Demand Response Pricing Mistake

The Fraying of Support for Wind Power's Ptc Subsidy

How to Contribute to Society

Minnesota Supreme Court Rules Pesticide Drift is Not a Trespass, but Might Be a Nuisance

India's Electrical System Produces Largest Power Blackout Ever

Co2 Emission Reductions: Fracking, Recession, Renewables?

Should Ice-making Be a Regulated Utility?

Smart Shopping for Electric Power Just Got Easier in Houston

Canada Should Better Integrate Electric Power Markets Among Provinces

Prices, Property Rights, Profits ... and Ice?

Bottom-up Emergent Order in Financial Markets?

No, the Federal Solar Power Subsidy Does Not Pay for Itself

Tyler Cowen on Morality and the Free Market

Pbs Story on Smart Meter Protests in California

Bloomberg's Bureaucratic "Big Gulp" Rule, More Unintended Costs

Why Do We Ignore Women's Sports?

Rob Bradley's Edison to Enron

Romney Should Defend the Morality of Capitalism ... Here's an Example

Does Epsa Support Capacity Markets? For Power Markets, Yes; for Gas Pipeline Markets...

Is the Death of the TV Business Model Upon Us?

Who Exploits You More: Capitalists or Cronies?

NYC Brownouts? But Why?? I Thought They Had Electric Power Capacity Markets

Creative Destruction (with Emphasis on the Creative), Air Cooling Edition

Will There Be a Next Fred Kahn?

Strava

Schumpeterian Innovation and "Showrooming"

Nest Learning Thermostat Featured in Reliant's Learn & Conserve Plan

Hayek's Knowledge Problem As an Issue in Electric Power Market Design

Price Gouging Worries in the Aftermath of Mid-atlantic Thunderstorms, Power Outages

Solar Subsidies in Italy

Jevons Paradox: More on Current Controversies

Efficiency, Conservation, and the Inescapable Jevons Paradox

Manners, Morality, Coordination, and Order

Negative Power Prices in Rto and Bilateral Power Markets

Skwire at Cato Unbound: "Bonfire of the Clichés"

The Road to Anarchy is Paved with Good Manners

We Miss Manners

Friday Afternoon Video: Adam Smith's Man of System

Dematerialization, Smart Phones, and Smart Grid

New Jersey Politicians Poised to Pour More Ratepayer Money into Solar Power Developer Pockets

Game-industry Market Design Job Openings for Economists

Doing What Seems Like It Should Work: Experiments, Tests, and Social Progress

Economic Experimentation, Economic Growth, and Regulation

The Natural Gas Revolution Need Not Be Subsidized

Trademark Protection Gone Wrong, U.s. Olympic Committee Edition

More Frontiers in Dynamic Pricing: New York Parking

Experimentation, Jim Manzi, and Regulation/deregulation

"Free Market Fairness" and Self-authorship

Frontiers in Dynamic Pricing: Spot Advertising Auctions

Elinor Ostrom As a Role Model

Poor Market Design Causing High Prices in Diablo Iii Auction House?

Not Your Grandfather's Dysfunctional Energy Policy

Adam Smith Opposes "Shock Therapy" for Developing and Transitioning Economies

Horwitz: Do Free Markets Require "Rational" Actors?

Price Gouging in Literature: Little House on the Prairie's "The Long Winter"

Competitive Power Market in Texas Faces Supply Concerns. Now What?

Got Your Creative Destruction Right Here, and What a Gale of It

Links to Adler Guest Posts at The Atlantic, and a Related Stavins Post

Jonathan Adler on Common-pool Resources

From the Upside Down Market View of Houston Chronicle Columnist Loren Steffy

New Jersey Solar Installers Seek "Endless Summer" at Ratepayer Expense

Signs of the Impending "Grexit"?

Markets Promote a Tolerant and Pluralist Civil Society

Quotation of the Day ... from Keynes

Green Urban Infrastructure Can Save Green(backs)

Virginia Postrel on Delta's Refinery Purchase

Effective Philanthropic Aid and the Solow Growth Model

Southwest Airlines's Hedges

Austin Energy Wants an Electric Power Rate Hike

Do You Want to Be Intellectually Honest?

Schmidtz on the Philosophy of Property

The Energy Price Version of "This Time It's Different"

Natural Gas Reserves May Rapidly Disappear (and Later Reappear)

If You Must Subsidize Energy, Subsidize Wisely

Great Strides Have Been Made Combating Price Gougers in Venzuela

Pat Wood: The Texas Tribune Interview

On the U.S. President's Role in Economic Highs and Lows

Catch Shares and Sustainable Fishing

Nhl Suspends Torres for Hossa Hit; Have We Achieved Incentive Compatibility?

Reasons to End the War on Drugs. Now.

Micro-hydropower Potential in Man-made Waterways

Zwolinski: "Is Price Gouging Immoral? Should It Be Illegal?"

Smart Meter Cybersecurity and Moral Panics

Oil Speculator Witch Hunt, 2012 Edition

How Green is Your Ev?

NYT Energy For Tomorrow Closing Plenary Video

Hitting the Big Time, Living the Econoblogger Dream

Reducing the Size of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Measuring Success by How Much You Spent on the Program: A Renewable Energy Example

David Zetland Speaking Words of Wisdom

The Internet of Things and Computational Energy Efficiency

Greedy Oil Companies and Charitable Natural Gas Companies?

Danish Wind Power ?s Norwegian Hydropower

Rto Forward Capacity Markets Are Unlikely to Succeed

Current Oil Prices: Scarcity Rents, Political Unrest, Inflation Hedging, or Speculation

Adam Smith and Mirror Neurons Paper Published

Net Metering in Indiana Sees Exciting 50 Percent Growth

Applying Coase to Wildlife Preservation

Natural Gas "Expectations Were Rewritten in the Last Decade"

Fracking at the Becker-posner Blog

Epa Backs off "Imminent and Substantial Endangerment" Claim in Texas Hydraulic Fracturing Case

Refiners Are Getting Squeezed by High Crude Oil Prices and Faltering U.s. Demand, So Let's Increase Their Costs!

Hamilton on the Main Reason Oil Prices Are High

Hamilton: Why Do Gasoline Prices Differ Across U.s. States?

Left, Right, and Climate Change

Nutrition Experience, Research, and Orthodoxy, with Some Economics Parallels

Tedious Peak Oil Claims from the Eu Energy Policy Blog

Getting a Little Led off My Chest

Learn Liberty Video: Should Government Regulate Monopolies?

Innovative Retail Competition: is It Finally Starting ... and in Chicago?

Students: Apply Now for Ihs Summer Seminars!

Antony Davies' Sobering Federal Debt Summary

Economists and Philosophers on Value

Ihs's Great Summer Workshop for College Teachers

Are Refiners and Wholesalers Price Gouging on Petroleum Products in Alaska?

How Fear Affects Policy: Adam Thierer on Technopanics

The Wsj's Awful Editorial Against the Wind Power Industry

Well, in That Case I Favor Higher Automobile Fuel Economy Standards

Bourgeois Virtues in Action

Welcome Sarah Skwire!

The Matt Ridley Prize for Environmental Heresy

Book Review: A Genius For Money

The Green Costs of Kelo

Students: A Message from the Elderly -- Join Students for Liberty!

Bright Automotive Can't Get Federal Loan After Four Year Wait, Folds

Ethanol Industry Struggles Through Regulatory Change

My Congressman Invites Me to Submit & Join*

Forum on Behavioral Law and Economics

Green Energy Paradox: Hotelling's Exhaustible Resource and Consequences of Improving the Alternatives

The Federal Government's Natural Gas R&d Breakthrough

A.C. Pigou, Public Choice Economist, on the Use of Government

Lng Exports, the View from the Brookings Institution

New Video: Richard Epstein on Simple Rules

Extreme Makeover: Regulation Edition

Video -- Regulating Monopolies

Congressman Markey Still Worries About U.S. Natural Gas Exports

Alex Tabarrok on Innovation, Barriers to It, and the Warfare-welfare State

One Nation, Under Guard

Honeywell Vs. Nest, Continued

A Secret to Chipotle's Good-food-fast Innovations

Dynamic Pricing and Technology in Different Markets

New Paper: Knowledge Problem

Online Privacy is Like Portfolio Diversification

Art Berman Spots Distress in the Natural Gas Industry

How Patents Stifle Innovation, Honeywell Edition

Will the Gas Boom Go Bust?

Honeywell International Inc. Claims Nest Thermostat Infringes on Patents in Federal Court Lawsuit

Super Bowl Price Gouging Complaints

Qotd:ron Bailey on Cheap Natural Gas

The "100 Mpg Prize" and Other Energy Stories

Shale Gas Glut, but Won't Last? The Underlying Model

Soul Searching in Economics, Davos Division

Keystone Xl Jobs: Estimates Range from a Few Thousand to About 1.47 Bazillion

Minnesota Biomass Projects Squeezed by Low Natural Gas Prices, Leaves Some Hoping for Higher Gas Prices

A Friday Flash

Was Federal Government Support Critical to the Shale Gas Breakthrough?

The Sotu Energy Policy Extract

First Sotu Energy Policy Cliché?

Give Me That Old Fashioned Analog Meter?!!?

Presidents, Policies, Prices and Production

Examining the "Masters Hypothesis" About the Role of Index Funds in the 2007-2008 Price Spike

Wsj Says Eia Says Natural Gas Prices Could Jump 54 Percent with Exports

Sopa/Pipa Protests and the Economics of Content Market Power

Regional Transmission Efforts Good for Re-routing Information Flows to Regulators

Michael Graetz's "The End of Energy" Surveys 40 Years of Energy Policy Making. It Isn't Pretty.

Commemorating Martin Luther King and Liberty

Bad News for the Natural Gas Suppliers, but Good News for Natural Gas Consumers

Epa Fines Companies for Not Doing the Impossible

Giberson Calls for One-year Moratorium on Hospital Admissions Pending Analysis of Risks Associated with Nosocomial Infection

Loss of Ethanol Subsidy Boosts Gasoline Prices a Little, E85 Prices a Lot

Marc Gunther on the Brewing Solar Pv Trade Wars

Robert Rapier on the U.s. Exports of Gasoline - Isn't This a Good Thing?

Congressman Markey Worries About U.S. Natural Gas Exports

Coal Company to Epa: Regulate Me, Please

Claims by Lobbyists That Deserve to Be Laughed at

The "First Feel-good Sustainability Story of 2012," So Long As You Ignore the Costs

Cheap Natural Gas Undermining Solar Dreams

Ethanol Industry Allows Its Politicians to Permit Expiration of Its Tax Credit and Tariff

New York Attorney General Proposes to Prohibit Use of Business-related Reasoning in Gasoline Wholesaling