A critique of directionality theory

A Critique of Feminist Theory

Objective: Feminism has grown rapidly in the last 40 years as both a multidisciplinary voice advocating for change and an area of scholarship and theorybuilding. A review of empirical articles describes 17 studies that indicate a wide range of applications of feminist theory, but theory is applied primarily as a lens for other issues, rather than to expand theory development. Advocacy and philo...

Epstein's Tort Theory: a Critique

IN three articles published in this journal between 1973 and 1975, my colleague Professor Richard Epstein set forth an ambitious normative theory of tort law.' Among the distinctive features of this theory were the author's insistence that strict liability based on causal principles should be the prima facie standard of liability, that notions of liberty rather than of economic efficiency shoul...

Mortality plateaus and directionality theory.

Recent large scale studies of senescence in animals and humans have revealed mortality rates that levelled off at advanced ages. These empirical findings are now known to be inconsistent with evolutionary theories of senescence based on the Malthusian parameter as a measure of fitness. This article analyses the incidence of mortality plateaus in terms of directionality theory, a new class of mo...

A Critique of Disaggregated Economic Theory

Abstract: This paper presents an exercise developing a long run general equilibrium model. The fully developed example shows that models developed on neoclassical premises need not support the neoclassical conceptions of prices as reflecting relative scarcities and of substitution as characterizing comparisons of equilibria. Also, certain stability problems are indicated. The conclusion is that...

The Critique of Accounting Theory