Many markets, including the travel, music, and book markets, are undergoing dramatic changes due do the development of electronic commerce. Reseller margins often decrease significantly and sometimes even entire links in the supply chain are becoming completely superfluous. Even though power markets have been deregulated already for some years in many countries, electronic commerce has not yet ...

424 (eds M.C.S. Wopereis et al.) There are the producers and manufacturers of inputs (seeds, fertilizers, pesticides) and machinery, and the traders who sell these, while on the post-production side, there are processors, traders, wholesalers, retailers and consumers. This book deals with a diverse range of topics that are all of relevance to realizing ‘Africa’s rice promise’, defined in the In...

a larger number of reprintings of this world-famous book. Throughout its thirty years of life it has been the standard handbook on tropical diseases for the Englishspeaking races. Larger books?running into a number of volumes?have been published in English and other languages, but in none of them have their producers contrived to be so comprehensive in so small a space. The earliest editions of...

This little book is, in its matter, a very welcofl1' addition to the too short list of reading matter, sUjjfJ able for intelligent young adults faced with domesf" problems in their own lives. Unfortunately in its fo^. and appearance it is unattractive. The producers h^; obviously?and rightly?been concerned to keep ? price down to a minimum, the paper is cheap and ^ print small and the cover des...

This book explores the production of pop music in Tehrangeles, a name given to Los Angeles by Iranian diaspora, through its impact on identity. form has been circulating widely abroad and Iran for decades, it is particularly relevant when considering cultural exchanges between diaspora. Hemmasi how producers have positioned themselves reflect question nation. The interesting ...

The trend in media conglomeration has run at the speed of light over the past couple of decades, accelerated by the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. In the midst of merger-mania the internet appeared to be a wide-open media terrain until America Online’s (AOL) acquisition of Time Warner. In light of this recent development between old and new media, this article will apply a criti...

I present and solve the problem of a producer who faces costs of acquiring, absorbing, and processing information. I establish a series of theoretical results describing the producer’s behaviour. First, I find the conditions under which the producer prefers to set a plan for the price he or she charges, or instead prefers to set a plan for the quantity he or she sells. Second, I show that the a...