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,...

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...

Consider the problem faced by a decision maker (DM) who must select the order in which to evaluate the unknown alternatives displayed by an online search engine. DMs do not know the distribution of the realizations that result from clicking on an alternative and must therefore account for the...