Posted in Culture, Economic Development, Emerging Topics, Energy, Land Use, Transportation on May 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Popular Science has a quick blurb about the First Annual BioMass Conference, which, in part, sought to dismiss new controversy about biofuels leading to global high food prices. An excerpt:
More to the point, though, is the mistaken notion that we have to use food crops for fuel production. In test fields in Minnesota, Tilman and [...]
Posted in Culture, Economic Development, Energy, Land Use, Transportation on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Just to underscore what I was saying about adjusting habits in the face of increased gas prices, a friend pointed out a recent NYT article on that very topic [free reg. req'd].
Mass transit systems around the country are seeing standing-room-only crowds on bus lines where seats were once easy to come by. Parking lots at [...]
Posted in Economic Development, Energy, Land Use, Transportation, tagged Clinton, gas tax, gas tax holiday, mass transit, Mccain, roads, Transportation on May 9, 2008 | No Comments »
For those of use not living under a rock for the past few months, we are all quite aware of both Senator McCain and Senator Clinton’s promises, should they be elected (one at a time, folks), that they would push for a temporary gas tax holiday. The idea, of course, is to offset the meteorically [...]
Posted in Culture, Economic Development, Energy, tagged Burma, Cyclone, Food Crisis, Recession on May 9, 2008 | No Comments »
First, sorry that I haven’t posted in a good while. I’d like to blame the fact that I’m busy (and I am), but I found time to do it before. I think between finals, a high-tempo work and commuting schedule, and fruitless weekend excursions to New York, I’ve neglected to write even though it’s been [...]
Posted in Economic Development, tagged BBC, Economic Development, Economics, Public Finance, Public Sector on April 12, 2008 | No Comments »
From the Beeb: Low Taxes ‘Boost Public Sector’
Hah!
Posted in Culture, Economic Development, Energy, Land Use, Transportation, tagged Culture, diesel, Economic Development, Energy, Land Use, oil, trains, Transportation, trucks on April 3, 2008 | No Comments »
The other day, as I was walking into work at the Labor & Industry building in Harrisburg, I was startled by the sounds of dozens (hundreds?) of big-rig trucks circling the capitol complex, ensnarling the whole area in massive gridlock and collectively drowning the entire area with the screams of their horns. What was going [...]
Posted in Culture, Economic Development, Education, Human Capital, tagged Culture, Economic Development, Education, Human Capital on March 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Andrew Coulson, of Cato and co-author of the 2007 study End It, Don’t Mend It: What to Do with NCLB, has an eye-opening piece published at TCS Daily on school choice and the right’s gradual abandonment of school choice in deference to centralization as an antidote to the problems plaguing our education system. His argument, [...]
Posted in Culture, Economic Development on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
In the Winter edition of City Journal, possibly one of the finest public policy publications produced today, Guy Sorman has an interesting and instructive article on the effect of the Chicago Boys – that is, the Milton Friedman-molded Chicago School of Economics – on Chile’s dramatic economic growth between Allende’s failed, ruinous collectivization and the [...]
Posted in About Us, Culture, Economic Development on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Haven’t written nearly as often as I’d like, but I do in fact have a couple of posts in the pipeline that will be posted as soon as I get more than 5 minutes of free time.
I have to run, but I thought I’d announce that I’ve published a new article on Bacon’s Rebellion, a [...]
Posted in Culture, Economic Development, Education, Human Capital, tagged Culture, Economic Development, Education, Human Capital on March 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This morning, I was listening to a podcast of Marketplace Money - which is the acceptable but somewhat inferior weekend edition of American Public Media’s Marketplace - which, among other things, featured a small segment discussing the role of ‘math anxiety’ in some people’s financial illiteracy. Something the guest (I forgot her name) said really [...]
