In “Culture: the Anthropologist's Account” (1999) Adam Kuper advised avoidance of the use of the word ‘culture' at all. It has come to denote too much and has now come to mean too little. However, just as “the history of all cultures is the history of cultural borrowing” (Edward Said,...

Abstract – In this article we describe the trials and tribulations in the early stages to introduce cashless retail payments in the USA. We compare efforts by financial service firms and retailers. We then document the ephemeral life of one of these innovations, colloquially known as “Hinky...

The in persona Christi Capitis doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church guarantees the validity of its sacraments, irrespective of the morality of the priest who performs them. While this protects their value as metacredence goods, it seemingly opens the door to opportunistic behavior by the...

In "The Problem of Social Cost" Ronald Coase was highly critical of the work of Cambridge University Economics Professor Arthur Cecil Pigou, presenting him as a radical government interventionist. In later work Coase's critique of Pigou became even more strident. In fact, however, Pigou's...

In spite of its title, in the midst of his numerous achievements, Darwin's book was unable to "solve" the problem of "speciation" that is the problem of the origin of species. We survey the modern biological literature and we argue that it has shown that the laws of structure and change that...

In spite of its title, in the midst of his numerous achievements, Darwin's book was unable to "solve" the problem of "speciation" that is the problem of the origin of species. We survey the modern biological literature and we argue that it has shown that the laws of structure and change that...

There is widespread and growing concern about the availability of good jobs in the U.S. economy. Inequality has been growing for thirty years and is now at levels not seen since the 1920s. Stable and remunerative employment has become harder for U.S. workers to find. With the widespread plant...