This paper examines how different ethical positions view various types of animal advocacy campaigns concerning a product produced using animals. The ethical positions represent common company, society, and animal advocate viewpoints. Working in a market model with a monopolistic supplier, we...

The article develops a complex interdisciplinary paradigm, or rather a multiparadigm of bioeconomics, exemplifying the necessary role and the broader horizon of multidisciplinarity through bioeconophysics, in the context of (bio)diversity and modern morality, in a logically investigative and...

The management of the transition to bioeconomy has developed relatively recently, to cope with the challenges of the 21st century. The determinants of transition are related to economic, social, biological and environmental evolution. In particular, the envisaged factors consist in demographic...

This is a the first draft of the eighth chapter of my book ‘Foundations of Evolutionary Economics' which is going to be published by Edward Elgar in due course. With permission of the publisher, the draft chapters are posted on the web to facilitate academic discussion for further...

We consider a model of vertical competition where downstream firms (retailers) purchase an upstream input from a monopolist and are able to differentiate from each other in terms of quality. Our primary focus is to study the effects of introducing a large retailer, such as a Wal-Mart...

Elementary consumer theory assumes that prices affect demand only because they affect the budget constraint (BC). By contrast, several models suggest that prices can affect demand through other channels (e.g. because they signal quality). This alternative conjecture is consistent with evidence...

In the nineties the disconnection between physical experience and the digital networked experience was celebrated - individuals were said to move into cyberspace, become virtual and leave the constraints of the physical realm. Despite the very real existence of tracking and surveillance...

The release of a new platform version is often preceded by prelaunch activities including a preannouncement of new features, improvements, and other innovations. The information contained within these preannouncements not only shape expectations of distinct but connected sides, e.g., users and...

Although Advance Selling and Probabilistic Selling differ in both motivation and implementation, we argue that they share a common characteristic - both offer consumers a choice involving buyer uncertainty. We develop a formal model to examine the general economics of purchase options that...