This paper takes the view that providers of electronic markets are to be considered as economic actors in a strategic game played with potential buyers and sellers. The crucial assumption clearly concerns the choice of instruments that a market provider is considered to have at hand. Contrary to large parts of mainstream economic theory, which assume a simple perfect auction market setting guar...

Abstract The notion of politicization has been often assimilated to that partisanship, especially in political and social sciences. However, these accounts underestimate more fine-grained, yet pivotal, aspects at stake processes politicization. In addition, they overlook cognitive mechanisms underlying politicizing practices. Here, we propose an integrated approach relying on recent insights fr...

In this paper, we describe technological advances for supporting persons with aphasia in philosophical dialogues about personally relevant and contestable questions. A computer game-based application iPads is developed researched through Living Lab inspired workshops order to promote the target group’s communicative participation during group argumentation. We outline some central parts of back...

because of endemic parasitological infectious diseases in iran and contaminated vegetables, as one of the most important ways of contamination, carried out a parasitical study on 263 vegetable samples from 44 farms in the suburbs of tehran city, and also 166 vegetables samples from 20 green grocery markets in the same city. from 263 samples of farms 147 cases (65%) of contamination were recorde...

Many commentators today lament the politicization of bioethics, but some suggest distinguishing among different kinds of politicization. This essay pursues that idea with reference to three traditions of political thought: liberalism, communitarianism, and republicanism. After briefly discussing the concept of politicization itself, the essay examines how each of these political traditions mani...

Drawing on the ideas of Stuart Hampshire, this paper argues that American constitutionalism, thought of as a set of practices for resolving conflict, may be especially helpful in the postmodern condition because it encourages the resolution of conflict among different cultural conceptions of the good by practices of adversarial argument and procedural justice, rather than simply by force and vi...

Critical insurance studies recognises as not purely actuarial and calculative. From this recognition, theoretically informed research pays attention to the reproduction of power in insurantial discourse practice, possibilities for equitable change. To extend geographical contributions regard, I review critical describe three intersecting foci – governmentality, materiality spatiality. also cont...

This study investigates a crucial aspect of the reputation mechanism design in electronic markets – the ability of buyers and sellers to revoke or mutually withdraw negative feedback and ratings. Based on an analysis of recent changes in eBay’s feedback mechanism design, we find that the two-way reputation system enables certain sellers to behave opportunistically by revoking negative feedbacks...

egotiations are believed to be an advantageous coordination mechanism for electronic markets that transcend the selling of commodities as well as for the coordination of complex interactions among organisations. However, most e-Commerce negotiation systems to date can only support price negotiations (dynamic pricing). This may be one of the reasons why current electronic markets struggle for ac...