he Supreme Court is the highest court of India. It is at the apex of the Indian judicial system. In the previous two lessons, you have learnt that the Union legislature, which is known as Parliament, makes laws for the whole country in respect of the Union and the Concurrent Lists and the executive comprising the President, Council of Ministers and bureaucracy enforces them. Judiciary, the thir...

Formalizing a concept developed by de Soto (1989), I construct a simple general equilibrium model of the informal sector. Agents in the economy can choose to be entrepreneurs in the formal or informal sector, or work in the labor market. Government rent-seeking and bureaucracy leads to a bifurcation in the size of firms: small informal firms and large formal firms. The empirical implications of...

In this work we present a framework for multi-agent system design which is based both on human organizational notions and principles for distributed intelligent systems design. The framework elaborates on the idea that notions from the field of organizational design can be used as the basis for the design of distributed intelligent systems. Concepts such as task, control, job, operation, manage...