This paper introduces granting of “exclusive bidding rights” to a subset buyers as a way of fostering their pre-auction information acquisition. A revenue maximizing monopolist gives N ef , the socially efficient number of informed buyers, or N ef + 1 buyers the exclusive right to bid, depending on a lumpsum value discovery (VD) cost. In the former case, equilibrium VD is efficient but allocati...

This article advocates workplace adult education and training researchers and scholar practitioners interested in career and technical education (CTE), adult education and technology, and who are attempting social and cultural critiques of workplace e-learning. The emphasis on the technological and artefactual in workplace e-learning research and study are not producing the expected learning ou...

This paper introduces granting of “exclusive bidding rights” to a subset buyers as a way of fostering their pre-auction information acquisition. A revenue maximizing monopolist gives N∗, the socially efficient number of informed buyers, or N∗ + 1 buyers the exclusive right to bid, depending on a lumpsum value discovery (VD) cost. In the former case, equilibrium VD is efficient but allocation is...

We examine the value of incorporating regulatory information into the court liability decision and making it publicly available, when the causality of harm is uncertain. Public access to regulatory information, coupled with its use in a liability decision, not only improves the accuracy of court adjudication but also guides victims to more informed decisions about their lawsuits, when victims' ...

Introduction Despite a range of communication technologies available today, we feel that families have difficulties managing everyday communication and subsequently the relationships with members that are temporally or spatially distributed. There is a dearth of research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) to understand domestic communication patterns and conduct socially informed design in suc...

We evaluate the potential relevance of virtue ethics to the training and practice of professional psychologists, and we contrast them with principle ethics. Typically, principles are used to facilitate the selection of socially and historically acceptable answers to the question "What shall I do?" when confronted by ethical dilemmas. Virtue ethics, however, generally focus on the question "Who ...

We present a theory of unilateral regulatory overcompliance as a signaling device. Firms that have a competitive advantage in the use of a cleaner but more costly technology overcomply in order to signal to an imperfectly informed, benevolent government that compliance costs are low, thereby triggering tougher regulation. We identify the conditions under which such an overcompliance signaling e...

In this paper we analyze the implementation of socially optimal mergers when the regulator is not informed about all parameters that determine social and private gains from potential mergers. We show that implementation requires a certain degree of agreement between social and private incentives. The most important example where this congruence is present is when the uncertainty refers to cost ...

This paper asks whether neuroeconomics will make instrumental use of neuroscience to adjudicate existing disputes in economics or be more seriously informed by neuroscience in ways that might transform economics. The paper pursues the question by asking how neuroscience constructs an understanding of individuals as whole persons. The body of the paper is devoted to examining two approaches: Don...

The aim of this paper is to show that there is a reciprocal dependency relationship between social cognition and social ontology. It is argued that, on the one hand, the existence conditions of socially meaningful objects and of social groups are about sucjets’ social cognitive processes and interactive patterns and, on the other hand, social cognitive processes and interactive patterns are mod...