…their low-price competitors. Grocery insiders generally agree that while price-focused competitors such as Walmart win on price perception, they lose at quality perception: shoppers simply don’t believe the quality of…

…offer a shelter that is immediate, quick, affordable, and easily transportable, staying as close as possible to the price and weight of the main alternative: the tent. “It is, indeed,…

…with Chaloupka and other colleagues. This research first established that price was a key factor for the demand for cigarettes. The research also showed that price was a particularly powerful…

…have a serious question about, it’s best to confer with your adversary off the record about it before you cast accusations in open court that implicate them in felony hacking…

…These are the loans that support an entrepreneur’s best, most-underfunded ideas. As a business acquires more capital, entrepreneurs move to their next-best ideas, then their next-next-best ideas, and so on….

…office into an open floor based on the trading floor (photo). He also did not question the use of quantification of officer activity as a means of evaluation. In fact,…

Introduction The video game franchise, Watch_Dogs (Ubisoft 2014), offers a vision of infrastructure hacking as a smooth and seamless tool of hooded urban outsiders who, at the push of a…

…a broadly neoliberal approach to development that put growth at its core and saw the market as the best way of achieving development goals (e.g., Stiglitz 1998:1). Yet, even as…

…a spinoff of synthetic biology, the Do It Yourself biology (DIYbio) network. Founded in 2008 and located largely in the western world, the DIYbio network is composed mainly of white,…

…colorless, translucent oil developed to meet Europe’s (chiefly Britain’s) demand for tin cans, cheap margarine, and cheap soap (Billows and Beckwith 1892:3). Soft palm oil, low in free fatty acids,…

…prices do not diverge significantly from wholesale prices emerging in ISO-run markets, or approving—usually without a fight—ISOs’ plans to expand the grid by adding new transmission lines. Figure 2. Snapshot…

…its future potential so dominates the history of civilization that has come to define it. “The countryside lived off its harvest and cities off the surplus,” Braudel writes, and so…

…The price setting within most AMAPs is also illuminating. The code of conduct that is supposed to rule the different local contracts says that the price of farm shares should…

…plants, and road networks. These were the instruments of societal transformation engineered by technocratic experts and government officials. Within this classic modernization paradigm, a collective actor (often the state) sought…

…but never contained. Wind is motion: without movement, it becomes merely air. Wind is nothing if it is not animated. It is an unmooring that acts upon bodies, often best…

…the firm. Today, the government maintains a 35% share, while the rest is traded publicly on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE). In addition to providing mobile infrastructure to nearly 70%…

…superstores. That cheese requires a different story, one that begins with the mid-nineteenth century move of American cheesemaking off the farm and into cooperatively owned factories where farmers pooled their…

…An examination of the ways that casinos detect, intervene in, and shape these groups offers insight into the workings of such collectives in other contemporary domains. Advertisement for Bally Business…

Across rural India the hand-crafted, biofuel cookstove, or chulha, has remained a ubiquitous feature of domestic life. Chulhas are generally cheap or free to construct and repair, are typically hand…

…Adepa is an attractive alternative to the overburdened and sensorially offensive municipal toilet. Despite the steep price of entry, Adepa is well patronized due to the high quality of service…

…dimly lit kitchen was the refrigerator. While I watched Doña Monterroso carefully finish preparing the meal—which she then offered graciously to me though I had brought her nothing—I noticed the…

…often restrict workers country location as a proxy for filtering workers without the presumed-to-be-stable cultural literacies their subjective tasks require. Large-scale requesters maintain databases, organized by alphanumeric ID, recording workers’…

…of services previously offered through brick and mortar locations for civic interaction: replacing an office with an app. To this end, implementing “smart” solutions to urban issues adapts the ongoing,…

…customers, and a source of profit and public recognition for themselves. III Taken as a “type” all its own, Ashaiman’s DBPTs offer a compelling alternative to both the modernist ideal…

…humanity, cannot be left in the hands of those collectives who own/control them, especially if they try to destroy them or sell them off to the highest bidder. The exact…

…had. There was also a clear sense, captured best in Francis Cleaver’s critique, that true participation had been betrayed by toolkits in general: “Participation” in development activities has been translated…