Digital Exclusion: Implications for Human Services Practitioners

Measuring neighborhood: a conundrum for human services researchers and practitioners.

This article contributes to the knowledge base of neighborhood intervention and research by reviewing the myriad ways the construct neighborhood is operationalized. The interdisciplinary review presents a critical examination of each measurement genre from quantitative to qualitative. The discussion of neighborhood measures includes (a) census and other administrative data, (b) windshield surve...

Becoming Digital: Policy Implications for Library Youth Services

AESTRACT THEAUTHOR FRAMES THE POLICY ISSUES surrounding children and digital libraries by establishing two criteria for decision making: (1) Does this policy facilitate access to information by children and young adults? and (2) Does this policy enable the library to provide better service to children and young adults? The intellectual freedom issues are discussed along with the range of respon...

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Digital services for consumers

Behavioral Economics: Implications for Antitrust Practitioners

For antitrust practitioners, there are two familiar behavioral assumptions used in the economic models that underlie antitrust analyses: consumers maximize their utility, which non-economists call " happiness, " and firms maximize their profits. Both of these assumptions are wrong, at least to some extent, in the sense that there are many apparent real-world counterexamples. With respect to con...