THE ETHICS OF PRICE GOUGING Matt Zwolinski Abstract: Price gouging occurs when‚ in the wake of an emergency‚ sellers of a certain necessary goods sharply raise their prices beyond the level needed to cover increased costs. Most people think that price gouging is immoral‚ and most states have laws rendering the practice a civil or criminal offense. The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the philosophic issues surrounding price gouging‚ and to argue that the common moral condemnation
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Macroeconomics LP4 Assignment A price ceiling is a sort of price control governments have imposed to control the price when the price is higher than it should be. Sellers try to sell more of their product because the price is high. But buyers do not want to buy at that price. Price ceilings commonly lead to shortages and are typically associated with long lines. When a new toy or video game comes out there is usually some kind of wait‚ whether in line or on a waiting list. When “tickle me
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on the European Energy Market (EEM) • 25-27 May 2011 • Zagreb‚ Croatia Electricity price forecasting – ARIMA model approach Tina Jakaša #1‚ Ivan Andročec #2‚ Petar Sprčić *3 Hrvatska elektroprivreda Ulica grada Vukovara 37‚ Zagreb‚ Croatia 2 # tina.jakasa@hep.hr ivan.androcec@hep.hr 1 * HEP Trade Ulica grada Vukovara 37‚ Zagreb‚ Croatia 2 petar.sprcic@hep.hr Abstract— Electricity price forecasting is becoming more important in everyday business of power utilities. Good forecasting
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Library & Information Science Research 36 (2014) 84–90 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Library & Information Science Research Research data management services in academic research libraries and perceptions of librarians Carol Tenopir a‚ Robert J. Sandusky b‚ Suzie Allard a‚ Ben Birch a‚⁎ a b School of Information Sciences‚ University of Tennessee‚ 451 Communications Bldg.‚ 1345 Circle Park Drive‚ Knoxville‚ TN 37996-0341‚ USA Richard J. Daley Library‚ MC-234‚ 801 S. Morgan St.‚ Chicago
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Introduction: Partners‚ Healthcare System (PHS) is a nonprofit organization that is situated in Boston. It was founded by Brigham and women Hospital and the Massachusetts General Hospital. Partners Healthcare built a unique application with a set of facilities that support information needs of the clinicians. The facilities help to reconcile medication histories during the care transition points (inpatients admission and discharge). In its business strategy‚ Partners has also established a
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The majority of victims of intimate partner abuse are women‚ and they are assaulted by someone who is a former or current spouse‚ cohabiting partner (opposite or same-sex)‚ date‚ or boyfriend or girlfriend. When the victim is female‚ 93.4 percent of the time the offender is male‚ and when the victim is male‚ 85.9 percent of the time the perpetrator is male (Gosselin 2000). Studies focusing on the adult male batterer have identified characteristics and personality risk-factors that characterize this
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Chapter 2: Analysis of marketing strategy 2.2 Pricing Strategy 2.2.1 Factor affecting pricing decisions (type of market) iPhone4s is a product from Apple which sells in oligopoly competition market. As we know‚ the characteristic for oligopoly competition market are product differentiation‚ few sellers but many buyers in the market‚ high barrier market entry and exit‚ price maker in the market and spend money in advertisement. It has a few of competitors‚ such as Samsung Galaxy S2 (RM2099)
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the most persuasive‚ argumentative and mesmerizing people to hit Hollywood since the days of film noir and Alfred Hitchcock. His use of CGI effects and dreary demeanor put him in the spotlight as a revolutionary director. With his breakout film‚ Alien 3 collapsing and bleak outlook on continuing to make movies‚ Fincher was offered the movie Se7en. Even after his original flop he was still granted a decent sum of money to produce the film. It was a hit and his career took off in flight. Two of his most
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Two videos correlated to my research paper. One in particular is called the “Dreamworlds 3: Desire‚ Sex and power in music video. This video written by Sut Jhally‚ examines the representation of women‚ men‚ and sexuality in music videos. In essence‚ the purpose of this video is to assert that music videos‚ not unlike other forms of advertising and popular culture‚ represent the pornographic image by offering a degraded and limited view of female sexuality based on narrowly defined adolescent heterosexual
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L. Cox The Price Is Unfair! A Conceptual Framework of Price Fairness Perceptions Recent news coverage on pricing portrays the importance of price fairness. This article conceptually integrates the theoretical foundations of fairness perceptions and summarizes empirical findings on price fairness. The authors identify research issues and gaps in existing knowledge on buyers’ perceptions of price fairness. The article concludes with guidelines for managerial practice. he issue of price fairness has
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