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proxy for market power in the digital economy mainly because of its dynamic nature. As the market boundaries shift so … traditional assessment of market power, and it proposes to replace the relevant market/market share paradigm with a more economic … formalistic structure. In order to identify the most suitable way to assess market power in the digital economy, this thesis is …
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[Note: the substantially revised published version of this article is available at www.ssrn.com/absract=489762] This article questions whether copyright law's prohibition against unauthorized copying and sales is either necessary or beneficial to the production and dissemination of creative...
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and publishers a sufficient profit to stimulate creation and distribution but without the significant harms to creation of …
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Food and eating habits, together with adjacent agricultural activities have had and an important role in the … development of modern society and the individual itself. Besides its nutritional role, food has become a main socio …-cultural determinant, food consumption patterns being influenced, on one hand, by psycho-sensory and quality characteristics of the food …
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Almost everywhere in the world, despite the lower agricultural commodity prices, consumer food prices have been … increasing in recent years. Notwithstanding a global recession and the largest grain harvest on record in 2008, food prices have … will rise by 70% and demand for meat will double. In the first ten months of 2009, food prices increased by 9.8%, prompting …
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This working paper forms part of South Africa's contributions to the BRICS Joint Working Group on Food and Agro …-processing's overarching report on ‘The Global Food Value Chain and Competition Law and Policy in BRICS countries'. Constituted by the …'s overarching report aims to first provide an overview of key developments in various segments of global food value chains in the …
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The economic impact of the compulsory grading legislation imposed by the EC is analysed. It is shown that the system imposed certain and immediate costs on producers and consumers, while any possible benefits were uncertain and distant. The system imposed bore no relation to the realities of the...
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This working paper forms part of South Africa's contributions to the BRICS Joint Working Group on Food and Agro …-processing's overarching report on ‘The Global Food Value Chain and Competition Law and Policy in BRICS countries'. Constituted by the …'s overarching report aims to first provide an overview of key developments in various segments of global food value chains in the …
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quantification of power. It has little to do with utility or abstract labour, and it extends far beyond machines and production lines …. Capital, the authors claim, represents the organized power of dominant capital groups to reshape - or creorder - their society … of "capital as power" and a new history of the "capitalist mode of power". …
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According to the capital as power framework, pecuniary earnings, or profits, are a symbolic representation of the … struggle for power between different capitalist groups. In this struggle, capitalists measure their own power differentially … - that is, relative to other capitalist entities. The focus on differential power, expressed in differential earnings, leads …
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