Deloitte and supporting organization, Bersin, are arguably the world's foremost institutions in researching and offering comprehensive annual reports on the status of modern thinking, and the trends in that thinking, in all facets of organizational operations and performance. The latest 2017...

Researchers have made progress in understanding the role of repugnance in transactions involving the human body. Yet, often, the focus remains on exchange between individuals and how they mentally cope (or not) with repugnance. But these exchanges also entail a “vertical” dimension in which...

This paper explores the following chain of conjectures: rising use of the internet, the widespread access to global information, and intensified communication between regions and countries brought about, for example, by intensified trade links bring about expansion of people's social space and...

What is self-governance, and under what sets of institutions is it possible? We explore this question from the perspective of informal (de facto) constitutionalism. The dominant approach, grounded in formal constitutionalism, overlooks crucial institutional features that determine whether...

In this paper we comparatively explore three claims concerning the disciplinary character of economics by means of citation analysis. The three claims under study are: (1) economics exhibits strong forms of institutional stratification and, as a byproduct, a rather pronounced internal hierarchy,...

This paper is called modern methodology because it is written from within the modern spiritual model of humanity, based on the only proof of dualism, the first scientific general theory of psychology. Second, it is methodology of mind. A way of thinking applicable generally, appropriate to be...

Dualism was first proposed by Descartes circa 1650. It never gained support due it could not be proved. There being two main intellectual problems, first the body-mind problem, that is the operational link between the mind and brain. Second, the problem of reductionism in science, if the...

Regulatory arbitrage — defined as the manipulation of regulatory treatment for the purpose of reducing regulatory costs or increasing statutory earnings — is often seen in heavily-regulated industries. An increase in the regulatory nature of copyright, coupled with rapid technological...