As part of a larger effort to push for legislative change in how car insurance is priced, Giannoulias is looking at how ...

It’s a new era, based on artificial intelligence in pricing that is profoundly dangerous to personal privacy,” CT’s U.S. Sen.

Menu Pricing Price discrimination can take other forms, some of which are even less obvious. Have you ever been walking down the shampoo aisle at your local retail store and noticed just how many ...

Back-to-school shoppers are expected to spend more than $800 to send their students back to the classroom, and many families ...

So, outlawing price discrimination will make consumers pay more than they otherwise would—which may cause them to reduce spending on other goods—thus harming the producers of those goods.

That’s a win-win-win. There are, of course, plenty of problems with price discrimination in practice. For starters, it’s hard to know what price everyone is willing to pay.

Cities can do more. They can support public or cooperative wholesale centers that pool purchasing power for small stores.

Third degree price discrimination relies on putting customers into groups and charging different rates based on willingness to pay within those groups, e.g. senior discounts at the movies.

The politics of price discrimination Next time you get a bargain online, think about the relative cost to your privacy Written by Rupert Goodwins, Contributor July 29, 2003, 2:03 a.m. PT ...