In the most simple sugar and spice models, the market settles on one price for each commodity.

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They retail at prices below the cheapest Samsung Android phones and compete against relatively crudely designed models by brands like Spice and Micromax.

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After a while, however, that became a little dull, and some enterprising academics decided to spice things up by using people from other fields as role models.

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