Who Benefits from Misleading Advertising?

Who Benefits from Targeted Advertising?

We investigate and compare the welfare and allocative effects of alternative con­ sumer data-handling regimes in online targeted advertising. We develop a three-players model that includes firms, consumers, and an intermediary the ad exchange and analyze it under various scenarios that differ in the type and amount of consumer data available to the intermediary and to firms. Under general condi...

Consumer Advertising Can Be Misleading

David Oaks I would like to thank PLoS Medicine for publishing Lacasse and Leo’s important and methodical Essay that debunks the “chemical imbalance” advertisements for psychiatric drugs [1]. Why would the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approve such ads? Our human rights group, MindFreedom International, has been asking that question for a long time. On behalf of MindFreedom, U...

Who Benefits from Religion?

Many studies have documented the benefits of religious involvement. Indeed, highly religious people tend to be healthier, live longer, and have higher levels of subjective well-being. While religious involvement offers clear benefits to many, in this paper we explore whether it may also be detrimental to some. Specifically, we examine in detail the relation between religious involvement and sub...

Who Benefits from Agglomeration?

Who Benefits from Biotechnology?

All this means that I view the world both from an economic perspective and from the perspective of working with agriculture and farmers. I am an educator who tries to present information in as factual a way as possible and give people the tools and means to form their own opinions. I start from the basic supposition that economics is the study of allocating scarce resources and not simply the s...