The consumer behaviour analysis research programme continues to develop as both an intellectual discipline and an applied area of empirical inquiry, enriching our understanding of consumer responses to the products and services of everyday life, and to the marketing of those products and...

Counterfeit goods consumption has predominantly been viewed as an economic, cultural, ethical/moral, legal and/or information-management issue. Strategies based on these perspectives have taken steps to curb counterfeiting (or quot;piracyquot;) worldwide. However, counterfeit purchasing...

The article considers the problem of using the expected utility approach to war termination. In the context of the ending of the Boer War, the authors attempt to explain why an expected utility approach has difficulty in accommodating the fact that there was a long delay between the initiation...

This article attempts to evaluate the claims of Bruce Bueno De Mesquita in The War Trap to have provided a deductive, expected utility theory of war initiation in the light of various criticisms that have been levied against him. The criticisms concern both the status of the model as a rational...

The article describes and discusses some of the tariff wars which went on between various European states at the end of the nineteenth century. Various countries, such as France and Switzerland, went through periods of building high tariffs against each other to force the rival country into...