To overcome market failures society creates common laws that stimulate or penalize individual actions, the enforcement of which depends on the actions of public authorities who may be susceptible to corruption. We model this behaviour for an autocracy versus a democracy, using a microeconomic...

Taking as guarantee that no one new world or society can be built upon old concepts and ideas, this paper seeks to attack one of the main pilar of the capitalistic world-economy: the scientific economicism. To do that, and coming along with Polanyi's ideas of fictitious commodity, we shall go...

In order to develop an intelligent system capable of posture classification and correction the authors developed a chair prototype equipped with air bladders in the chair's seat pad and backrest, which can in turn detect the user posture based on the pressure inside said bladders and change...