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'The gentleman in Whitehall' reconsidered: the evolution of Douglas Jay’s views on economic planning and consumer choice, 1937-1947

Toye, Richard - 2002

In his book The Socialist Case, first published in 1937, Douglas Jay wrote: ‘in the case of nutrition and health, just as in the case of education, the gentleman in Whitehall really does know better what is good for people than the people know themselves.’ This phrase became notorious, and,...

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The Effects of Trivial Attributes on Choice of Food Products

Miljkovic, Dragan; Gong, Jian; Lehrke, Linda - 2009

Trivial or irrelevant attributes are defined as attributes that do not create a meaningful difference in a brand’s performance. The objective of this paper is to determine if and how trivial attributes affect consumers in their choice of variety/brands of food products including frozen green...

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Who Provides Information Matters: The Role of Source Credibility on US Consumers’ Beef Brand Choices

Dentoni, Domenico; Tonsor, Glynn T.; Calantone, Roger J.; … - 2011

Labels, certifications and endorsements signaling the quality of food have an impact on the purchasing choices of multiple segments of US consumers. At the same time, not much is known about the relationships between the sources providing information through these quality signals and consumer...

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Consumer Preference Not to Choose: Methodological and Policy Implications

Brennan, Timothy J. - 2005

Residential consumers remain reluctant to choose new electricity suppliers. Even the most successful jurisdictions, four U.S. states and other countries, have had to adopt extensive consumer education procedures that serve largely to confirm that choosing electricity suppliers is daunting....

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COMMENTARY Enhancing Consumer Empowerment

Wright, L T; Newman, A; Dennis, C - 2006

Purpose of this paperMuch of the literature on consumer empowerment focuses on consumers’ efforts toregain control of their consumption processes from suppliers. Our purpose is to arguethat many suppliers achieve success by trying hard to empower consumers. Themechanism by which this takes...

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Stochastic modelling of financial processes with memory and semi-heavy tails

Pesee, Chatchai - 2005

memory. The traditional Black-Scholes model is expanded to incorporate memory via an integral operator, resulting in a class … calls and puts are given by the Black-Scholes formula. The model has memory and can distinguish between historical …

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Learning, bounded memory, and inertia

Alós-Ferrer, Carlos - 2008

This paper considers bounded-memory players in a coordination game, who imitate the most successful remembered actions …. With exogenous inertia, risk-dominant equilibria are selected independently of the length of memory. Without inertia …, Pareto-dominant equilibria arise when memory is long enough. …

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Genetic Epidemiology of Alcohol-Induced Blackouts

Nelson, Elliot C.; Heath, Andrew C.; Bucholz, Kathleen K.; … - 2004

Background: Alcohol-induced blackouts (ie, periods of anterograde amnesia) have received limited recent research attention. Objective: To examine the genetic epidemiology of lifetime blackouts and having had 3 or more blackouts in a year, including analyses controlling for the frequency of...

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REMI and ROUSE: Quantitative models for long-term priming in perceptual identification.

Wagenmakers, E.J.M.; Zeelenberg, R.; Huber, D.; … - 2003

(from the chapter) The REM model originally developed for recognition memory (R. M. Shiffrin and M. Steyvers, 1997) has … recently been extended to implicit memory phenomena observed during threshold identification of words. The authors discuss 2 …

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Wirkungen von electronic-Word-of-Mouth-Empfehlungen bei misstrauischen Rezipienten : eine empirische Untersuchung unter Betrachtung der Empfehlungskongruenz sowie der Botschaftsarg...

Pütz, Christoph - 2009

Der Informationsaustausch zwischen Konsumenten im Internet wird zunehmend von Unternehmen als Träger beeinflussender Kommunikation erkannt und im Sinne kommunikationspolitischer Ziele instrumentalisiert. Hierbei wird bspw. mittels materieller Anreize versucht, auf das...

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