Creative destruction
13 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
EU mulls emergency aid for collapsing solar producers
05 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: European Union, solar power
By Paul Homewood h/t Dennis Ambler New Green Jobs Update! BRUSSELS — The European Commission is in early-stage talks on emergency measures to buoy drowning EU solar manufacturers who say Chinese subsidies are suffocating the industry, according to two people familiar with the matter. On Monday, the Commission will make a […]
EU mulls emergency aid for collapsing solar producers
Creative destruction
05 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
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Creative destruction
31 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
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Water metering – a small piece of silver buckshot
25 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, environmental economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: economics of networks, privatization
Chris Parker at Treasury sometimes quips that there are no silver bullets for solving housing in NZ, only pieces of silver buckshot. Basically you’ve got to do a lot of things to solve the problem; any one of them on their own won’t do it. I was on RNZ’s The Panel yesterday afternoon (here, from around…
Water metering – a small piece of silver buckshot
Creative destruction
23 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of information, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
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Going Flat? Bud Light Sales Still Down 28 Percent as Consumers Continue Boycott
15 Jan 2024 1 Comment
in industrial organisation, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Beer analysts are saying that Bud Light is still struggling with the boycott that has reduced its sale by a whopping 28% over the four weeks leading up to Dec. 9 — and heading to the all-important New Year’s sale period. The tragic irony for the company is that Alissa Heinerscheid, vice president of marketing…
Going Flat? Bud Light Sales Still Down 28 Percent as Consumers Continue Boycott
Buick Dealers Fleeing the Net Zero EV Revolution
31 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, global warming, industrial organisation, survivor principle
“… we’ve given dealers who are not aligned with Buick’s future to exit voluntarily in a respectful and structured way …”
Buick Dealers Fleeing the Net Zero EV Revolution
Entrepreneurship
31 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, sports economics, survivor principle Tags: entrepreneurship
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24 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, movies, survivor principle, television Tags: creative destruction
The strategy that saved the NY Times
17 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: political correctness, regressive left
Economist: The new New York Times was the product of two shocks – sudden collapse, and then sudden success. The paper almost went bankrupt during the financial crisis, and the ensuing panic provoked a crisis of confidence among its leaders. Digital competitors like the HuffPost were gaining readers and winning plaudits within the media industry as innovative. They were the…
The strategy that saved the NY Times
Europe’s Largest Wind Farm Facing Bankruptcy
13 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public More bad news for the wind industry:. https://twitter.com/IntermittentNRG/status/1723692080801710475 What is different about this one is that the PPA forces the wind farm to buy power on the spot market, when the wind does not provide enough:
Europe’s Largest Wind Farm Facing Bankruptcy
Quotation of the Day…
29 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle
Tweet… is from page 163 of the 1983 Third Edition of Douglass C. North’s, Terry L. Anderson’s, and Peter J. Hill’s Growth & Welfare in the American Past: A New Economic History: In both England and the United States, wood was one of the more important raw materials in the nineteenth century, providing a major…
Quotation of the Day…
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