Theoretical and experimental studies have shown that mate choice copying is a viable mating strategy under certain conditions. Copying experiments in fish have been conducted primarily in the laboratory, except for one study conducted in the field under artificial conditions. We investigated...

The collapse of command economies in the Second World, and the monopoly of structural adjustment as prescribed development policy for the Third World, have thrust incentives to the center of debates about economic policy. As one political economist declares, “Few economists today would dispute...

For the World Bank the “achievement of sustained and equitable development remains the greatest challenge facing the human race.” But equitable development has not been achieved. We must not, therefore, merely sustain the kind of development we already have.

Globalization, says a recent study, “is in danger of becoming, if it has not already become, the cliche of our times: the big idea which encompasses everything from global financial markets to the Internet but which delivers little substantive insight into the contemporary human condition.”...

This paper aims to address the ethical and social issues raised by economic development in a globalized world. It argues that development has not delivered economic wellbeing to all nations and peoples and questions the view of development as the main achievement by economics. It attempts to...

States that “development” has long been equated with modernization and western‐ization and studied as a straightforward economic issue. Reports that the discipline of economics has been the main source of policy prescription for development decision makers and that this view is now widely...