In the closing pages of Calculation and Coordination , Boettke includes the basic correlations between GDP and a variety of "real" -ly important social variables: sanitation, education, life expectancy, and infant mortality among others. The...
In a series of posts at the self-declared "free market" blog of the fossil-fuel energy industry funded Institute for Energy Research , energy expert Rob Bradley (former Ken Lay speechwriter and Enron policy wonk) explores his dark forebodings that the "Malthusian wing" of the Obama...
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...
Wow, what startling news. Thanks for sharing it with us Rob. Now perhaps you can catch your breath. Rob Bradley trumpets an opinion poll that indicates that voters care more about more immediate and pressing issues than they do about distant problems like climate change that they can pass off to their...
Rob Bradley has a new post up at MasterResource , cheering on big (and now "clean") coal, which has apparently received assurances from the Obama administration - after being bad-mouthed by NASA scientist Jim Hansen , Steven Chu and Obama himself - that, despite pressures from the "Malthusian...
Kudos to Robert P. Murphy for a new opinion piece dated Novermber 15 in Forbes.com regarding "The High Costs Of 'Green Recovery'" . The biographical note appended to the piece describes Bob as "a senior economist with the Institute for Energy Research , a nonprofit foundation that...
At a very rudimentary level I think that efforts like this to make a more productive use out of the energy already being used and released through ordinary foot travel is in one sense brilliant yet in another sense obvious. I think about this whenever...
FOX offers soapbox for Pickens mouthpiece Warren Mitchell (former chairman of Southern California Gas Company and San Diego Gas & Electric, and director and head of the compensation committee of Pickens' owned Clean Energy Fuels); Steven Milloy responds . Keep up the good work, Steve! Some of...
Many people perhaps dream of an executive position in a wealthy, well-to-do business. To manage and direct people! to be the boss. But few people are. The reason should be obvious: it takes a certain kind of skill and talent to successfully direct the fortunes of a business that captures a certain sector...
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1. There is an excellent interview of Dr. Ron Paul now up at Grist, the environmental news and commentary site, that explores some of his views on environmental and energy issues. I am with him in principle but think he has underestimated the seriousness of the climate change problem and not seriously...
In a post of the same title at at NRO , Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren of Cato do a great job of demonstrating there is absolutely no relationship between energy policy and national security. However, they forgot to provide the answer to their own question - Republicans are "unhinged" on...