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- The Cambridge Handbook of Algorithmic Price Personalization and the Law
- The Cambridge Handbook of Algorithmic Price Personalization and the Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Understanding the Phenomenon
- 1 What Is the Problem with Price Personalization?
- 2 The Economics of Price Personalization
- 3 Price Personalization versus Contract Terms Personalization
- 4 Personalized Pricing in the Age of Big Data
- 5 The Rise and Uneasy Decline of the Impersonal Price
- Part II EU Law Perspectives on Price Personalization
- Part III Beyond the European Union
- Index
3 - Price Personalization versus Contract Terms Personalization
Mapping the Complexity
from Part I - Understanding the Phenomenon
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 March 2025
- The Cambridge Handbook of Algorithmic Price Personalization and the Law
- The Cambridge Handbook of Algorithmic Price Personalization and the Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Understanding the Phenomenon
- 1 What Is the Problem with Price Personalization?
- 2 The Economics of Price Personalization
- 3 Price Personalization versus Contract Terms Personalization
- 4 Personalized Pricing in the Age of Big Data
- 5 The Rise and Uneasy Decline of the Impersonal Price
- Part II EU Law Perspectives on Price Personalization
- Part III Beyond the European Union
- Index
Summary
Algorithmic pricing did not arise in a vacuum but is part of a wider phenomenon of using personal data to profile individuals on the market and make predictions about their preferences and behaviour in future market settings. The potential for price personalization is one of the most important and salient aspects of the wider phenomenon of algorithms and big data analytics that have come to dominate consumer market. The personalization of the contract should not be regarded separately from the personalization of other elements of a market relationship, neither theoretically nor from a practical perspective.
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