Chapter 3 Technology of Electronic Commerce 3.1 A short history of the Internet and the web The Internet was the result of some visionary thinking by people in the early 1960s who saw great potential value in allowing computers to share information on research and development in scientific and military fields. J CR Licklider of MIT, first proposed a global network of computers in 1962, and moved over to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA) in late 1962 to head the work to develop it Leonard Kleinrock of MIT and later UCLA developed

Moral Luck One of the important themes in the freewill debate is the idea that freedom is necessary for moral responsibility. In effect, if hard determinism is the correct view, then we should not hold ourselves or others morally responsible. Libertarians, in particular, seem to hold that in order to be responsible for an act, we must be its \sole author. Here is the principle at issue: Control Principle: You are only responsible for what you have control over. If you steal an axe from my garage and use it to break into a gas station, there's no point in holding me responsible, I didn't

Table manners and Customs Introductory Remarks In different parts of the world, there are different table manners and customs. People in the East eat in different ways from those in the West. Even among western countries there are differences between table manners. And what's more, in one country, table manners have not al ways been the same and changed with time

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bribery in international commercial transactions Aspects of corruption: its roots and consequences Several questions arise in connection with the increased interest in action against corruption at both the national and international levels. In such interest due to the higher occurrence of corrupt practices, higher detection rates or lower levels of (public, official and business)

CHOICE OF LAW IN INTEGRATED AND INTERCONNECTED MARKETS A Matter of Political Economy Horatia Muir Watt laws as an issue of political economy can be seen as a response to the tectonic shiff t of A case of lost innocence: 2 Shifis in the public/private divide. Describing the confl traditional thinking in this field 5 a new generation of collisions of economic regulation o o currently wrought by globalisation in respect of the public/private law divide, which shape

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Introduction These notes essentially tie up a few loose ends in Lecture 8; in particular, I exhibit examples of inefficiencies in first- and second-price auctions. I would also like to briefly comment on Questions 1 and 2 in Problem Set 2 The first-price auction may be inefficient even with private values Both examples I am going to show are due to Eric Maskin(to the best of my knowledge) The first point I wish to make is that, even in a private-values setting, asymmetries may

Developments in frozen transport in the 19th century established the inter- national food market. In 1877, a cargo of frozen meat was sent from Buenos Aires to France. The following year 5000 frozen mutton carcasses were transported from Paraguay to France. In 1880, the SS Strathleven arrived in London with a cargo of 40 tons of frozen Australian beef, and by 1910

Different philosophers have formed different conceptions of the Good. Some hold that it consists in the knowledge and love of God ; others in universal love, others in the enjoyment of beauty, and yet others in pleasure. The Good once defined, the rest of ethics follows: we ought to act in the way we believe most likely to create