Basic Needs and its Critics

Democracy and Its Critics

Keynes' Law and Its Critics*

Keynes' Law and Its Critics. Critics of Keynes' "fundamental psychological law" that the rate of current consumption declines with increases in current income claimed it was incomplete, produced incorrect predictions and emphasized the wrong spending behavior. These objections involve confusion over the effects of individual and average data on spending estimates. When data types are carefully ...

Kin Selection and Its Critics

Hamilton’s theory of kin selection is the best-known framework for understanding the evolution of social behavior but has long been a source of controversy in evolutionary biology. A recent critique of the theory by Nowak, Tarnita, and Wilson sparked a new round of debate, which shows no signs of abating. In this overview, we highlight a number of conceptual issues that lie at the heart of the ...

Expert Critics in Engineering Design: Lessons Learned and Research Needs

SPRING 1992 45 umes of fast-changing sensory data that one needs to process to safely operate the technology. In other articles, we address the errors that the operators make and some ideas for correcting them, for example, see Silverman (1992a, 1992b). However, their mistakes are often the least serious ones in a long chain of errors, starting with those introduced in the design, development, ...

The Efficient Market Hypothesis and Its Critics

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