Science & Technology

Baumol’s Solution to the Baumol Effect Tim Worstall 09/10/2009

Increasing productivity in healthcare is difficult but not impossible. Here’s how.

Drake’s World Max Schulz 08/27/2009

On this day 150 years ago—August 27, 1859—Colonel Edwin Drake struck oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania, with the world’s first oil well. We should all say a toast of thanks to the man who helped raise the curtain on the modern world.

Lunar-cy Max Schulz 08/06/2009

Cap-and-traders miss the point when they invoke the moon landing.

The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals Blake Hurst 07/30/2009

Farming has always been messy and painful, and bloody and dirty. It still is. This is something the critics of industrial farming never seem to understand.

Behind the Green Dam James V. DeLong 07/09/2009

The controversies over Internet filtering are only just beginning.

All Cost, No Gain Ted Gayer 07/06/2009

By supplementing their cap-and-trade program with expensive mandates, Congress levies heavy costs with no environmental gain.

RSSted Development Ben Casnocha 07/01/2009

Tyler Cowen has written one of the most stimulating defenses of Internet information culture.

The Cap-and-Trade Giveaway Alan Viard 06/26/2009

A cap-and-trade system with freely allocated permits is equivalent to a carbon tax in which the tax revenue is given to stockholders.

The Transformers at the Supreme Court? Michael M. Rosen 06/24/2009

The Supreme Court’s examination of Bilski this summer will not be quite as big a blockbuster as “Transformers,” but in the world of patents and technology, it will be pretty close.

Twitter Takes Tehran Michael M. Rosen 06/18/2009

As the mullahs have increasingly restricted the freedom of Western and Iranian journalists—essentially forbidding them from covering the demonstrations—amateurs and professionals alike have turned to Web 2.0 tools to get their message out.