issues on intellectual property: e.g., the extension of patents to software and business models, the lengthening of copyright protection, the compulsory licensing of pharmaceutical products or the legal suits against music downloaders. Economics is also a powerful instrument to improve public policy. It helps to design the appropriate reform to adapt intellectual property law to the 21st centur...

Until its sales of a product materialize, a firm is a “pre-producer” in the market for that product. That firm may may be a new start-up, or it may already sell other products. Firms that do not succeed in generating sales eventually become discouraged and move on to other activities. When this fate befalls a lot of firms, as it recently did in several IT-related businesses, the indistry experi...

While the efforts by actors on buyer-side of value chains – such as brands and retailers to address upstream labour abuses are well documented, there is a lack research into how production-side raw material producers can identify downstream risks. This presents findings an action project that focused Australian cotton industry. By applying sense-making lens, we propose four properties be used r...

Anthony Daffy's Elixir Account Book offers a unique insight into the medical economy of the later seventeenth century. It records sales beyond London in the 1670s and 1680s of Daffy's "Elixir Salutis", or simply Daffy's Elixir as it was better known, a medicine that continued to be manufactured and widely used into the twentieth century in England, America and various European countries.' Daffy...

The continuous friction for more than two centuries in softwood lumber trade between Canada and the United States only keeps escalating. The reason for the prolonged battle in the softwood lumber trade is the huge economic value of the bilateral lumber trade, the size of the lumber markets in both countries, and the adverse impact of one country’s policies on the other country’s lumber market. ...

Whilst E-Commerce is spreading world-wide, many Muslims are wondering whether this new form of commerce is acceptable from the Syariah (Islamic Law) point of view. Thus, this research paper is meant to study the Islamic perspectives in e-commerce, particularly in its transaction, as well as the rights of the producers and customers. Issues on the legality of E-Commerce in Islam are examined to ...

Book review of Snapshots from hell by Peter Robinson. Published by Warner Books (New York), 1994. Comments Postprint version. Published in Journal of Marketing, published by the American Marketing Association, Volume 59, Issue 3, July 1995, pages 101-106. The author has asserted his/her right to include this material in ScholarlyCommons@Penn. This other is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://...