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Behavioral & decision theoryThe Behavioral Blind Spot in Accountability: Choice Anomalies Matter Less than the Institutional Failure to Preserve Decision Provenance
STATUS · Manuscript in progressSSRN · Not yet posted
MECHANISM
Identify the incentive structure and the condition that would falsify the claim.
RULE CHANGE
Read the intervention only after the paper shows how the current payoff space fails to support system welfare.
READER USE
Use the summary to see where private gain creates system exposure, then check the study record.
Contribution — what this adds to the conversation
Extends SAPM/MST framework to accountability literature, providing formal derivation and empirical validation.
WHAT'S NEW · Shifts focus from cognitive biases to structural information deficits; introduces Behavioral Blind Spot Theorem and Decision Accounting Transformation Theorem.
The paper's argument is that accountability failures are primarily caused by the institutional failure to preserve decision provenance, not by individual cognitive biases. Using the Missing System Theory and Decision Accounting protocol, it shows that current accountability structures produce 'Hollow Wins' where both parties benefit while the system degrades. The paper estimates a global reform dividend of $69.0T annually from implementing decision provenance.