How can we engage in a market relationship when the quality of the goods we want to acquire is unknown, invisible, or uncertain? This is the question addressed in this book. Each chapter focuses on situations where quality is highly uncertain: such situations provide excellent opportunities to analyze how quality is the outcome of a construction process involving producers, consumers, and marke…
By now pretty much everybody in the web world has heard of responsive web design (often referred to as RWD), but a surprising number don’t have a good understanding of what it is . In this chapter, you’ll learn the basics of what it means for a website to be responsive . After that, we’ll go through a little of the history of web design, so you can understand where the idea of responsi…
For all types of businesses, there is an increasing trend towards the utilization of data, as well as information that can be gathered from data. Big Data or Data Scientist are the new terms that emerged from recent developments in the field of data and information science, just to mention a couple examples. The assurance of data quality has become an integral part of information management pr…
My wish to make this book available to an English-speaking audience finally came true. Had it not been for a chance encounter with Francisco J. Ricardo through an introduction by Candy Coleman at a museum opening in Los Angeles in 2011, this book would probably not exist. Francisco’s enthusiasm and support, along with his wonderful contacts Katie Gallof at Bloomsbury and Jörgen Schäfer,…
The genesis for this book was an interest in looking at the world’s most successful substantive international commercial law convention – the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) – from various national and methodological perspectives. Success here is measured by the overwhelming reception of the CISG by countries throughout the world. By late …
Paul Virilio’s major contribution to contemporary European thought has been to demonstrate that questions of visual culture are not only academic and cultural, aesthetic, historical, critical, philosophical and anthropological questions but also extremely important political questions. For Virilio, visual culture does not simply provide ways to understand the visual or examine images; it offe…
In 1989 years of planning and hard work came to fruition when the University of North Carolina Press joined the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi to publish the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. While all those involved in writing, reviewing, editing, and producing the volume believed it would be received as a vital contribution to our understanding of …
Technical analysis involves the use of past and current market price, trading volume, and, potentially, other publicly available information to try and predict future market prices. It is highly popular in practice with plentiful financial trading advice that is based largely, if not exclusively, on technical indicators. In a perhaps belated testament to this fact consider the following quote…
Over the past few decades, social networks have attracted massive interest from scholars in fields as diverse as sociology, biology, physics, business, politics, and computer science. From these diverse fields, researchers have found that many sys- tems can be represented as networks, and that there is much to be learned by studying those networks. With the rapid growth of the Internet and the …