In this text, we examine Donna Haraway’s idea of a liberating potential of cyborgization first in the subsequent versions of Stepford Wives (the novel, the 1975 movie, and the 2004 movie), and second in the evolution of ...

Laboratory experiments are potentially effective tools for studying behavior in settings where little or no information would otherwise exist such as participation in illicit activities. However, using laboratory experiments ...

Knightian uncertainty in climate sensitivity is analyzed in a two sec- toral integrated assessment model (IAM), based on an extension of DICE. A representative household that expresses ambiguity aversion uses robust ...

Almost all previous studies on public policy under relative consumption concerns have ignored the role of leisure for status comparisons. Inspired by Veblen (1899), this paper considers a two-type optimal income tax model, ...

Vår översikt över de senaste årens forskning om konsumenters inställning till och köp av ekologisk mat visar att: • Andelen köpta ekologiska livsmedel är liten trots ett stort intresse för miljöfrågor. Konsumenters ...

How do government-supplied institutional benefits and the taxation and regulation of produc- ers affect the propensity of private firms to enter the unofficial economy and evade taxation? We propose a model in which the ...

ABSTRACT Sandberg, Mattias, 2012, ’They are not outdoors that much’. Nature close to home – its meaning and place in the everyday lives of urban children. Publications edited by the Departments of Geography, University ...

Switching costs are costs that customers face when switching from one firm to another. In markets such as the airline market where repeated purchases are common, switching costs may be substantial. In this paper we ...

Four years have passed since January 1996 when retail competition was introduced in the Swedish electricity market. These years have been characterized by a rapid restructuring of the electricity supply industry through ...

Forskningens syfte är att närmare studera motiv till, utformning och funktion av regional logistiksamverkan och möjligheten att utveckla regionala logistikcentra. Av speciellt intresse är att identifiera nyttan av regional ...