Electronic commerce and flexible manufacturing allow personalization of initially standardized products at low cost. Will customers provide the information necessary for personalization? Assuming that a consumer can control the amount of information revealed, we analyze how his decision...

"In Dynamism Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps, Raicho Bojilov, Hian Teck Hoon, and Gylfi Zoega argue that the high level of innovation in the West was not a result of scientific discoveries plus entrepreneurship. Rather, modern values-particularly the individualism and self-expression prevailing...