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Lynne Kiesling
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Lynne Kiesling writes Knowledge Problem, a personal blog at knowledgeproblem.com about economics and politics. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this economics blog for a post on price gouging after disasters, using Haiti as the example. The only comment cites it as a source and does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Economics, regulation, technology, governance.
What Hacker News says?
Price gouging of food/shelter/energy post-disaster is a fairly common phenomenon, and I don't think it really requires extensive discussion. See e.g. http://knowledgeproblem.com/2010/01/26/price-gouging-in-hait... in the context of Haiti specifically. WRT vaccines in particular, please read my post as charitably as possible within the surrounding context of the thread -- I can only invest so much time in internet co…
Comment linking /2010/01/26/price-gouging-in-haiti/
on “GiveDirectly Gives Poor People a Year's Income”Submitted Economists study Peak Oil, yawn as a story · 2 points
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HN discussion