The Qualified Majority Voting (QMV) used by the Council of the European Union developed to a high degree of complexity from one modifying treaty to another, until the latest definition stipulated in the Treaty of Lisbon. This paper analyses this EU intra-institutional voting method using a...

Absent the introduction of either of `social conventions', or `negotiations over socially acceptable behaviors', this study arrives at a formal theoretical general equilibrium parameterization of morality. Suppose all socioeconomic agents are boundedly rational and seek to act rationally. Under...

This is an argumentative review article that intends to establish consciousness shifts as a region base concept for metamorphic learning (ML)s. Our theoretical framework is based on ingenuity, self-empathy, and kinship. Kinship includes every aspect that strengthens the consanguine nature of...

Nudges - incentives to adopt a desirable behavior - are widely used and accepted today, especially in public health. Through two experiments, the reasons for the high acceptability of nudges were examined from the perspective of the rationalization effect. In Study 1 (before the Covid-19...

Protection of common natural resources is one of the foremost challenges facing our society. Since Garrett Hardin published his immensely influential The Tragedy of the Commons, theorists have contemplated the best way to save common-pool resources—national parks, fisheries, heritage sites,...

As Machine Learning (ML) systems are becoming increasingly used and more complex, different value systems are being coded into Artificial Intelligence (AI). In this paper, we delineate the value systems that many AI systems hold and suggest alternative value frameworks to combat inequities...

Coronavirus has affected every country, every sector and every individual in the world, though the magnitude differs. UNCTAD (2020) rightly points out that it has affected mankind physically, economically and psychologically.The Atmanirbhar Bharath is a refined version of the Gandhi Swadeshi...

We show that computing the consumer surplus as the area below the demand curve and above the equilibrium price level is consistent with the definition of consumer surplus, as the monetary gain obtained because consumers are able to purchase for a price less than the highest price that they would...

Organizational rationality has traditionally been seen as a static paradigm wherein predetermined goals are pursued in a cognitively bounded pursuit. Organizational scholars have increasingly advocated for processual approach that looks at organizations in continual process of becoming. Adopting...