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Housekeeping --- Architecture --- interior design --- stores [built works] --- retail stores [built works] --- interior designers --- retailers

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As a new consumer culture took root in eighteenth-century England and shops proliferated, the crime of shoplifting leaped to public prominence.

Shoplifting --- Theft --- History --- Colonial era. --- Consumer culture. --- Crime. --- Criminal history. --- Eighteenth-Century England. --- Greed. --- Legal changes. --- Need. --- Public prominence. --- Retail expansion. --- Retailers. --- Shoplifting. --- Social impact. --- Society.

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Two economists take readers on a tour of the economics of legal and illegal weed, showing where cannabis regulation has gone wrong and how it could do better. Cannabis "legalization" hasn't lived up to the hype. Across North America, investors are reeling, tax collections are below projections, and people are pointing fingers. On the business side, companies have shut down, farms have failed, workers have lost their jobs, and consumers face high prices. Why has legal weed failed to deliver on many of its promises? Can Legal Weed Win? takes on the euphoric claims with straight dope and a full dose of economic reality. This book delivers the unadulterated facts about the new legal segment of one of the world's oldest industries. In witty, accessible prose, economists Robin Goldstein and Daniel Sumner take readers on a whirlwind tour of the economic past, present, and future of legal and illegal weed. Drawing upon reams of data and their own experience working with California cannabis regulators since 2016, Goldstein and Sumner explain why many cannabis businesses and some aspects of legalization fail to measure up, while others occasionally get it right. Their stories stretch from before America's first medical weed dispensaries opened in 1996 through the short-term boom in legal consumption that happened during COVID-19 lockdowns. Can Legal Weed Win? is packed with unexpected insights about how cannabis markets can thrive, how regulators get the laws right or wrong, and what might happen to legal and illegal markets going forward.

Marijuana industry --- Marijuana --- Economic aspects --- Law and legislation --- arbitrage. --- dispensary. --- drug policy. --- economics book on cannabis market. --- federal. --- marijuana supply and demand. --- price. --- recreational weed legalization. --- regulation. --- restrictions. --- retailers. --- sales. --- tax. --- weed business.

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Despite the recent misfortunes of many dotcoms, e-commerce will have major and lasting effects on economic activity. But the rise and fall in the valuations of the first wave of e-commerce companies show that vague promises of distant profits are insufficient. Only business models based on sound economic propositions will survive. This book provides professionals, investors, and MBA students the tools they need to evaluate the wide range of actual and potential e-commerce businesses at the microeconomic level. It demonstrates how these tools can be used to assess a variety of existing applications. Advances in web-based technology--particularly automation and delegation technologies such as smart agents, shopping bots, and bidding elves--support the further growth of e-commerce. In addition to enabling consumers to conduct automated comparisons and sellers to access visitors' background information in real time, such software programs can make decisions for individuals, negotiate with other programs, and participate in online markets. Much of e-commerce's economic value arises from this kind of automation, which not only reduces operating costs but adds value by generating new market interactions. This text teaches how to analyze the added value of such applications, considering consumer behavior, pricing strategies, incentives, and other critical factors. It discusses added value in several e-commerce arenas: online shopping, business-to-business e-commerce, application design, online negotiation (one-to-one trading), online auctions (one-to-many trading), and many-to-many electronic exchanges. Combining insights from several years of microeconomic research as well as from game theory and computer science, it stresses the importance of economic engineering in application design as well as the need for business models to take into account the "total game." As the only serious treatment of the microeconomics of e-commerce, this book should be read by anyone seeking e-commerce solutions or planning to work in the field.

stock markets. --- selling agents. --- retailers. --- protocols. --- procurement systems. --- personalization. --- online auctions. --- naïve bidders. --- matching process. --- marketplaces. --- loyalty. --- late bidding. --- information. --- incentives. --- game theory. --- exchanges. --- deadlines. --- competition. --- bilateral negotiations. --- auction design. --- alternating offers. --- adverse selection. --- Vickrey auction. --- ShopBots. --- English auctions. --- Dutch auctions. --- Bertrand paradox. --- Electronic commerce. --- naïve bidders.

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This book focuses on the recent development of forecasting and risk management techniques for electricity markets. In addition, we discuss research on new trading platforms and environments using blockchain-based peer-to-peer (P2P) markets and computer agents. The book consists of two parts. The first part is entitled “Forecasting and Risk Management Techniques” and contains five chapters related to weather and electricity derivatives, and load and price forecasting for supporting electricity trading. The second part is entitled “Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Electricity Trading System and Strategy” and contains the following five chapters related to the feasibility and enhancement of P2P energy trading from various aspects.

Technology: general issues --- History of engineering & technology --- electricity markets --- non-parametric regression --- minimum variance hedge --- spline basis functions --- cyclic cubic spline --- weather derivatives --- n/a --- distributed energy resources (DER) --- P2P energy trading --- cooperative mechanism --- renewable energy --- multi agent system --- blockchain --- cashflow management of electricity businesses --- electricity derivatives and forwards --- retailers and power producers --- solar power and thermal energy --- optimal hedging using nonparametric techniques --- empirical simulations --- peer-to-peer energy trading --- distributed energy resources --- microgrid --- digital grid --- bidding strategy --- electricity price --- electricity load --- electricity price forecasting --- wind energy --- day-ahead market --- intra-day market --- balancing power market --- peer to peer energy market --- hardware control --- demonstration experiment --- home energy management systems --- electric vehicles --- bidding agent --- electric vehicle --- functional autoregressive model --- functional principle component analysis --- vector autoregressive model --- functional final prediction error (FFPE) --- naive method --- P2P electricity market --- market maker --- liquidity --- price fluctuation --- artificial market simulation