Foreseeing Meaningful Choices

Nonlinear pricing with self-control preferences

This paper studies optimal nonlinear pricing for a monopolist when consumers’ preferences exhibit temptation and self-control as in Gul and Pesendorfer (2001a). Consumers are subject to temptation inside the store but exercise self-control, and those foreseeing large self-control costs do not enter the store. Consumers differ in their preferences under temptation. When all consumers are tempted...

"Territorial smartness" and emergent behaviors

The increasing smarteness of personal devices and territories are rapidly changing the scenarios of data production. Data access and/or data possession can determine positions of privilege, but the real competitive advantage will derive more and more from the ability to identify relevant dimensions and flows and, of course, from that to extract meaningful multidimensional descriptions aimed at ...

When doctors might kill their patients: foreseeing is not necessarily the same as intending.

A Technology Foresight Model: Used for Foreseeing Impelling Technology in Life Science

This paper constructs an Impelling Technology Foresight Model (ITFM) for foreseeing impelling technology in the field of life science, which is a comprehensive model consisting of four class indicators: international scientific environment, evolving of papers and patents, collaboration features of patent assignees’ collaboration networks, and impacts. A case study was carried out in the field o...

More on preference and freedom

The paper seeks to fonnalize the notion of effective freedom or the freedom to realize meaningful choices. The definition of meaningful choice used in this paper is based on the preference orderings that a reasonable person may have. 1 argue that only alternatives that can be selected by a reasonable person from the set 01' all possible alternatiV'es provide a meaningful choice. 1 discuss this ...