Samuel Bowles (economist)

Samuel Bowles ( born 1939 ) is an American economist. He is a Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.

Life

Bowles graduated from Yale University (BA, 1960) and received a Ph.D. in 1965 from Harvard University in economics. From 1965 to 1974 he was Professor of Economics at Harvard. From 1974 to 2002 he was a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he is currently Professor Emeritus. From 2002 to 2010 he was a professor at the University of Siena. Since 2000 he is also director of the Santa Fe Institute.

Work

Bowles is concerned on the one hand with the co-evolution of preferences, institutions, and behavior, with emphasis on the modeling and empirical study cultural evolution, the importance and evolution of cooperative motives for the explanation of behavior, and the application to policy issues such as intellectual property rights, education or government redistribution.

His second area of ​​research is social inequality, focusing on the context in incomplete contracts and economic transactions in business, markets, families and communities. This includes the exploration of the use and abuse in competitive trade, the inheritance of inequality, inequality as a source of inefficiency, the long-term evolution of hierarchical institutions and transitions between egalitarian and unequal institutional structures, and the relationship between globalization and redistribution.

Works (selection)

  • A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution ( with Herbert Gintis ). Princeton University Press, 2011. ISBN 0,691,151,253th
  • Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution. Princeton University Press, 2003. ISBN 0691091633rd
  • Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life: The Foundation of Cooperation in Economic Life (ed., with Herbert Gintis, Ernst Fehr ). The MIT Press, 2005. ISBN 9,780,262,072,526th
  • Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success. Princeton University Press, 2005. ISBN 9,780,691,119,304th
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