Abstract Family systems shape social institutions, yet they are rarely considered in histories of economic development. In this article, we show that a suite conventions—such as age gaps at marriage, bride price, sequestration, and discrimination violence against women—are overrepresented polygamous societies compared to monogamous societies. This dichotomy can be explained on the grounds polyg...

In this paper we examine how commodification and labour control unfold within a digital platform, focusing on the connections between its users workers. Based qualitative study covering couriers, clients, restaurants management of food delivery platform in Belgium, shed light complexity commodification, explaining simultaneously empowers disempowers all participants. We illustrate fosters by gr...

Great hope has been placed on biobank research as a strategy to improve diagnostics, therapeutics and prevention. It seems to be a common opinion that these goals cannot be reached without the participation of commercial actors. However, commercial use of biobanks is considered morally problematic and the commercialisation of human biological materials is regulated internationally by policy doc...