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Daily Archive for July 26th, 2011

Just finished up Tim Harford’s terrific book, Adapt (Hayekians would especially like its discussion of complexity and knowledge). Here is a nice quote: I recently visited the UK Treasury to discover that officials were waxing lyrical about nudging through “choice editing.” When you say, “choice editing,” I asked, does that mean, “banning things?” The sheepish […]

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Last week, I asked the question of whether it mattered whether a ton of CO2 emitted today was any different than emitting a ton of CO2 into the atmosphere in 50 years.  In thinking about the energy economics of light-rail, it seems to me that the green advocates have answered it in the negative. Consider […]

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