In the modern world, international commerce provides more links between the people of different nations than all the political, religious, and humanitarian delegations combined. Every day, millions of goods are produced, shipped, bought, and sold by over seven billion people around the world. People pay little attention to where these goods come from. Instead, they simply expect them to appear ...

Cryptomarkets are online marketplaces, located on the darknet, that facilitate the trading of a variety of illegal goods, mostly drugs. While the literature essentially focus on drugs, various other goods and products related to financial or identity fraud, firearms, counterfeit goods, as well as doping products are also offered on these marketplaces. Through the analysis of relevant data colle...

This Chapter reviews statistical models for the probability distribution of money developed in the econophysics literature since the late 1990s. In these models, economic transactions are modeled as random transfers of money between the agents in payment for goods and services. Starting from the initially equal distribution of money, the system spontaneously develops a highly unequal distributi...

It is well known in the economic literature that labour supply curve can bend backwards and, therefore, leisure be a Giffen good. also normal This article proves if good, it has to result that, contrary common knowledge economics, not all goods, are inferior goods. These results could taken into account, for example, when finding empirical evidence and designing policies on supply, an era of ma...

The cost-effectiveness of policies providing subsidized health goods is often compromised by the fact that many individuals do not use the goods provided. However, charging even nominal prices has been shown to significantly dampen overall take-up and may screen out many who would have used a good if freely provided. Applying an ordeal mechanism to the distribution of subsidized health goods ha...

This study illustrates how social relations-rather than simple proxlmlty­ influence spatial patterning in the distribution of contemporary Dalupa ceramics. The Ka1inga pottery exchange network participates in a multi-centric economy. characterized by slightly overlapping exchange networks marked by different exchange mechanisms and goods. The suki relationship. a trade partnership that bridges ...

During the last decade, virtual goods have become an important target of consumption online (especially in games, virtual worlds and social networking services) amongst physical and digital goods. In this study we investigate the question of why do people purchase virtual goods by conducting a metaanalysis (random effects model) of the existing quantitative body of literature (24 studies) on th...