This and That across the Web

By Paul

Some things that caught my eye across the web;

F. A. Hayek, intellectual father of the Wikipedia
Getting Things Done Software Systems
Fallacious arguments for low levels of tariff protection
Southern bluefin tuna & Japan
Double-Tongued Dictionary
Jill Carroll's story
Some TV is worth watching
The Relentless Application of Self-Interest
Survey of Professional Forecasters
Supply-side Economics at 25
WATCHING LEBANON-Washington’s interests in Israel’s war by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Albert Hirschman
What an Electric Vehicle Costs
How do oil price shocks affect the economy?
An update on the Chicago Climate Exchange
Excel in-cell bar graph
Errors in economics a reason for modesty: Baumol
Health Care Costs
The trade balance, the current account balance, and other definitions
A Roundup of Interesting Economics Links
Liberal agonies
Oil Shock; Micro and Macro
Retail Sales and Nominal GDP
Times Cover Art

-- August 16, 2006 12:44 AM |

Comments

Kirk from Colorado wrote:

Regarding Thomas Friedman's post on ''What an Electric Vehicle Costs'.
http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/2006/07/what-electric-vehicle-costs.html

I built, and then drove for many years, an Electric Vehicle. Friedman's analysis on the gross economics is pretty close to the mark. Overall, a number of companies HAVE tried to (profitably) commercialize the technology over the past years, and none have done so with a high-performance, main-stream car like the GM EV1 was intended to be. And GM did not succeed either -- clearly, to me, for economic reasons. They were aiming for the target principally due to a (now-rescinded) California mandate. But the interesting part about the conspiracy theorists who condemn GM for enforcing their private legal right of contract is what it says about human nature of the conspiracy-theorists, not what is says about the motives of the greedy firm GM.

-- August 18, 2006 7:53 PM ∞

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