The increasing cross-border flows of information, trade, capital and technology have profoundly changed the macroeconomic fabric of nations. In the emergent borderless world macroeconomic theories and policy-making confront new challenges. This paper identifies and evaluates some of these...

Theories of the economic evolution of societies and their diversity are critically examined, paying particular attention to the evolution of hunter-gatherer societies. An interdisciplinary approach drawing on anthropology and economics is adopted. Currently, three main stereotypes of the nature...