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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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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relatively ignored. While this allows for efficiency of perceptual processing‚ the selective nature of attention leads to a number of perceptual phenomena. One such phenomenon‚ as discussed by Simons & Ambinder (2005)‚ is ‘change blindness’‚ i.e.‚ the inability to detect change in a visual stimulus. Jensen et al. (2011) differentiate this from another phenomenon‚ ‘inattentional blindness’‚ in which an unexpected object is not detected within the field of view. Though both phenomena are fundamentally
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will be explaining why I think these laws are unethical also elaborating why a change is needed and mentioning how it will make our society a better place. To enhance my understanding of ethics and my opinion on the law I will also explain how I would change the law and what modifications I would make. By the end of this assignment I hope I will prove a point on why these certain laws are unethical and how we can change them to make society and the law better. My three laws that I will be discussing
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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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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 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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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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Price Elasticity of Gold Group name: In-Demand The general inverse relationship between price and demand is a key fundamental in economics. A rise in price is known to shrink demand and vice versa. However‚ another important factor in economics is the price elasticity of demand‚ which can be interpreted as the percentage change in demand relative to the percentage change in price. Basic goods tend to be of low elasticity‚ thus the change in price has little effect on demand‚ while luxury goods
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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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