On December 16, Spiegel Online ran the following interview with Elinor Ostrom , whose 2009 Nobel prize in economics (shared with Oliver Williamson ), was widely applauded by Austrian economists (and whose work I have referred to any number of time previously ). Der Spiegel asked some good questions,...
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TokyoTom
on Fri, Dec 18 2009
Filed under: ostrom, Corporate socialism, climate change, Coal, limited liability
It looks like Sen. Robert Byrd , a lifetime loyal supporter of the West Virginia coal industry (see his definitive biography, “Robert C. Byrd: Child of the Appalachian Coalfields” ), stabbed Don Blankenship/Massey Coal and the rest of the W.Va. environmentally destructive "mountaintop...
[Update: I copy at bottom a follow-up exchange I had on Bob`s thread with another reader - radio silence from Bob.] Bob Murphy has a new post up at his blog, " CBO Testimony Misleads on Cost of Cap-and-Trade ", that draws attention to a new blog post at the Institute of Energy Research that...
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TokyoTom
on Wed, Oct 28 2009
Filed under: rent-seeking, Block, climate change, Coal, Bob Murphy, Rob Bradley, Exxon
I noted in a previous post that Rob Bradley , CEO of the Institute for Energy Research and lead blogger at MasterResource , has cheered on big coal and bashed what he calls "Malthusian anti-energy crusaders", but ignoring while he does so the questions of (1) whether there are any legitimate...
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TokyoTom
on Sat, Feb 7 2009
Filed under: energy, carbon pricing, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, climate change, Coal, obama, Rob Bradley
I received the following email today from Cathy Zoi , who is the CEO of Al Gore's "Alliance for Climate Protection" and sent back the response I note further below; Dear Tokyo, Last week, Exxon Mobil announced record profits -- at the same time that the rest of us were paying record high...
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TokyoTom
on Wed, Aug 6 2008
Filed under: AGW, climate change, Coal, Al Gore, nuclear, alternative, Cathy Zoi