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Growth of Omnichannel Grocery Retailing and Food Prices

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effects of the growth of omnichannel grocery retailing on food prices. We first develop a conceptual model of consumer choice and retailer pricing that allows us to evaluate changes in equilibrium prices, quantities, and profits with online channel growth and alternative pricing strategies.
Xiangwen Kong   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trans Utopianism and the Utopia of Transness in Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Theory can sometimes only find its synthesis in fiction. The debate within queer theory between the anti-social and the utopian has been dominating discourse for nearly a decade.

core   +1 more source

A via analógica no pensamento de Georg Simmel [PDF]

open access: yesSociologia & Antropologia, 2015
In this paper I deal with the role of analogical reasoning in the thought of Georg Simmel (1858-1918), one of the founders of German sociology. My main goal here is to grasp the relations between analogy-making as a cognitive resource and the style of ...
Lenin Bicudo Bárbara
doaj  

Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resting in the forest in times of pandemonium for the betterment of life, or bushcraft in the Polish National Forests

open access: yesActa Scientiarum Polonorum. Administratio Locorum
Motives: In the context of the global health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a need to develop new, safe forms of recreation and nature education. Aims: The Polish State Forests are introducing the concept of bushcraft, which has gained
Justyna Jastrzębska   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Complexity and the culture of economics: a sociological and inter-disciplinary analysis [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Philosophical Economics, 2012
This paper offers a sociological explanation for why the field of economics has so severely restricted the scope of its analysis to the point where it failed to foresee the financial crises, economic recessions, and other large shifts in economic ...
Hendrik Van den Berg
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O estudo dos efeitos não intencionais da ação intencional na teoria sociológica The study of unintentional effects of intentional action in the sociological theory

open access: yesSociologias, 2011
No século 18, os ilustrados escoceses identificaram o paradoxo que haveriam de enfrentar depois as ciências sociais: a história é feita pelos seres humanos, mas não obedece a um plano humano. Neste artigo, reconstruímos a colocação deste problema central
Silvio Salej Higgins
doaj   +1 more source

Vertical Price Transmission in Food Markets: New Evidence From Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A growing body of empirical research has examined price dynamics along the food supply chain, yet findings remain heterogeneous and often conflicting. This study conducts a meta‐analysis of 140 studies, totaling 652 observations, to examine (1) the reported presence of asymmetric price transmission and (2) the reported direction of price ...
Sushan K C   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Consumer Demand and Market Response to Added Sugar Labeling: Evidence From the Updated Nutrition Facts Panel

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how mandatory disclosure of added sugar content on the updated U.S. Nutrition Facts Panel (NFP) affects consumer demand and market outcomes. Using NielsenIQ Retail Scanner Data (2015–2020) and a random coefficient discrete choice model, we estimate how added sugar labeling influences purchasing behavior in yogurt and cookie
Yuxiang Zhang, Yizao Liu
wiley   +1 more source

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