T he global financial crisis and recession that started in 2007 with the surge of defaults of U.S. subprime mortgages is having a large impact on recent macroeconomic research. The framework of modern macroeconomics that has replaced traditional Keynesian economics since the 1970s has been widely criticized. Many of the criticisms have focused on the assumptions of the representative agent and ...

Until recently Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have held center stage in the archaeologist’s geospatial toolkit, and there is no doubt that archaeologists have moved beyond the map – but into what? In the early years, criticisms voicing GIS as environmentally-deterministic were abundant. What methods and tool have archaeologists used to overcome these criticisms? New geospatial technologie...

In this paper we respond to two frequent criticisms of our book, A Natural History of Rape (Thornhill & Palmer, 2000). The first criticism portrays the book as little more than a "just-so story" that human rape is an adaptation. We demonstrate that this portrayal is not accurate. The second criticism reflects a common response to the book s challenge of the popular assertion that rapists are no...

Gatherer & McEwan (1998) respond to our article (Pocklington & Best, 1997) with several apparently serious criticisms, concluding that our foray into cultural transmission theory is fundamentally flawed. Here we deal with each of their criticisms, in most cases by restating more precisely our model and claims. First we will outline some of the errors in their interpretation of our model and res...