Introduction: critical institutionalism, market model failure and the business control of society through cybernetic manipulation -- Veblen's dark places of business enterprise and the theory of social costs -- Karl William Kapp's critical theory of social costs : asset-specific cost-shifting,...

We define a novel information acquisition model that accounts explicitly for the influence of positive and negative anticipated emotions in the evaluation and selection incentives of decision makers (DMs). The model focuses on the value assigned by the DMs to the information being acquired and...

This article seeks to explain the contradiction between the promises of welfare gains derived from the economic models recommending the removal of immigration restrictions and the realities experienced by countries attempting to apply restrictions to immigration flows. A formal model is built in...