Vol 2.1, Spring 2018

TARGET ARTICLE

Economic Theory and Social Policy: Where We Are, Where We Are Headed

Herbert Gintis

RESPONSES TO TARGET ARTICLE

Where We Are Headed versus Where We Want to Go: Economic Theory at a Crossroads?

Robert L. Axtell

Economic Ontology and the Science of Nonpachydermology

Eric D. Beinhocker

Economic Theory, Complexity, and Social Policy

David Colander

Herbert “Ulysses” Gintis

Mauro Gallegati

Economics Can Be Powerful but Needs to Move On

Paul Ormerod

Should New Economic Thinking Be Incremental or Paradigmatic?

David Sloan Wilson

Economics and the Promise of Evolutionary Studies

Ulrich Witt

REJOINDER

Simplicity and Complexity in Economic Theory

Herbert Gintis

Articles

Long Childhood, Family Networks, and Cultural Exclusivity: Missing Links in the Debate over Human Group Selection and Altruism

Azar Gat

T. H. Huxley, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Impact of Evolution on the Human Self-Narrative

Emelie Jonsson

Review Essays

The History and Future of Human Prospection

Adam Bulley

Book Reviews

Menelaos Apostolou. Sexual Selection in Homo Sapiens: Parental Control over Mating and the Opportunity Cost of Free Mate Choice

Reviewed by Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair

Richard G. Bribiescas. How Men Age: What Evolution Reveals about Male Health and Mortality

Reviewed by David C. Geary

Michael Burke and Emily T. Troscianko, eds. Cognitive Literary Science: Dialogues between Literature and Cognition

Reviewed by Neema Parvini

Mathias Clasen. Why Horror Seduces

Reviewed by Stephen T. Asma

Daniel C. Dennett. From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

Reviewed by Ronald de Sousa

Whitley R. P. Kaufman. 2016. Human Nature and the Limits of Darwinism

Reviewed by Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen

Kevin Laland. Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind

Reviewed by Thomas Morgan

Richard H. McAdams. The Expressive Powers of Law: Theories and Limits

Reviewed by Bret A. Rappaport

Richard O. Prum. The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us

Reviewed by Richard G. Coss

Murray Smith. Film, Art, and the Third Culture: A Naturalized Aesthetics of Film

Reviewed by David Andrews

Peter Turchin. Ages of Discord: A Structural Demographic Analysis of American History

Reviewed by Jack A. Goldstone

Peter S. Ungar. Evolution’s Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins

Reviewed by Joel D. Irish