Budget, Taxation & Economy
The Uncompelling Case for NCInnovation
If we examine the case for public funding of NCInnovation, it is becoming clearer that the prospect is uncompelling.
Technological innovation
process having new developments implemented by the productive sector that increase efficiency or create/enhance a product
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Looking to Israel for coronavirus ideas
Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon explores Israel’s relatively successful response to COVID-19. The Israelis are known for their preparation. Threatened each day by a bevy of terror groups,…
Energy
Technological breakthroughs in energy help us, no matter the energy source
Conventional thinking about technological innovation in energy production seems to focus only on renewable technology, as if traditional sources of energy are incapable of technological change. But that simply isn't…
Market forces, not renewable energy, lead to decline in N.C. CO2 emissions
RALEIGH — North Carolina can thank market trends and technological innovation, not renewable energy, for a drop in carbon dioxide emissions that beats most other states. A new John Locke…
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Going beyond invention to tweaking, adaptation
Historian John Steele Gordon offers Barron’s readers an interesting lesson in the perfection and adaptation of new inventions. In the 15th century, Europeans brought together three technologies—gunpowder, cannon manufacture, and…
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Great explanation of why economic growth helps the poor the most
It’s a topic I’ve written about frequently, but never with the eloquent brevity as Marc Andreesson. Read his series of tweets here. The insight that technological innovation gives the poor…
Energy
National Review highlights book’s takedown of ‘catastrophists’
The latest print edition of National Review includes John Daniel Davidson’s review of Robert Bryce’s new book, Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong. Among…
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National Review rebuts claims that American exceptionalism is an outdated concept
James Pethokoukis has read recent claims that America’s exceptional growth in years past, aligned with the larger trend of unprecedented Western industrial growth, can be traced to a “series of…
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Natural gas pwered race cars?
Gordon Kirby’s column on racing this week address the issue of innovation in racing again, this time from a different angle: fuel. As in having different sorts of fuel power…
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The Market Works: Fuel Efficiency Driving Aviation
As airline ticket prices rise to reflect higher jet fuel costs, the aviation industry is responding. Actually, the industry has been re-engineering and innovating for years. As I blogged a…
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Why we need wealth to solve future problems
If global warming is a problem (and I?ll leave that debate to others), it?s clear that government policies designed to stifle growth will offer no viable solution. What will help…
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Good news for free market fans
Yes, the current issue of Newsweek devotes its cover story to the troubling Haditha investigation. But fans of the free market will find much better news in the magazine’s innards…