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By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 5, 2022
The Old Days
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On the Theory of Interventionism
By Robert Bradley Jr. --“One promising avenue for thinking about some of these issues is provided by Robert L. Bradley Jr., who, building on Sandy [Ikeda]’s work, offers his own typology of interventionist dynamics in a working paper, “Typology of Interventionist Dynamics” and the version in Humane Economics: Essays in Honor of Don Lavoie, edited by Jack High. I cannot do his framework justice in my short comment, and I urge the interested reader to review Bradley’s work on this topic in its entirety. That said, his typology offers some examples of key categories for considering different types of regulatory interventions….”
Decades ago I found myself swamped with examples of government intervention into the oil and gas market as I came to the concluding chapters of what would be later published as Oil, Gas, and Government: The U.S.…
Continue ReadingSimon Kinsella vs. South Fork Offshore Wind (eco-issues aplenty)
By Sherri Lange -- September 1, 2022“We congratulate Simon Kinsella for his fortitude and diligence. Other communities are in line for similar threats as from South Fork Wind proposal (Long Island). Pushback to agencies that thrust agreements and permits in favor of wind development without appropriate assessment is essential, economic issues aside.”
Simon Kinsella of Suffolk County New York is no stranger to legal proceedings. His filing last month with the District Court at District of Columbia follows a neat pattern of Citizen “water bearer” to environmental concerns raised for years now regarding South Fork Offshore Wind (Ørsted) with the Long Island Power Authority and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (Department of the Interior).
The Biden Administration’s priority is industrializing large strips of coastal ocean water to get the radically uneconomic offshore wind industry going on the East Coast.…
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