Samuel Bowles (economist)

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Samuel Bowles

Professor Samuel Bowles
Born 1939
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Occupation Academic researcher, author
Nationality American
Subjects Economic theory, Microeconomics, Social psychology, Behavior studies
Notable work(s) Schooling in Capitalist America
Influences
Influenced
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Samuel Bowles is an American economist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught courses on microeconomics and the theory of institutions. [1] Bowles graduated with a B.A. from Yale in 1960 and afterwards, continued on to get his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1965. Currently, Bowles is a Professor of Economics at the University of Siena, Italy, and the Arthur Spiegel Research Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 2006 he was awarded the Leontief Prize for his outstanding contribution to economic theory by the Global Development and Environment Institute.

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[edit] Academic Work and Interests

On his website at the Sante Fe Institute, he describes his two main academic interests as first, "the co-evolution of preferences, institutions and behavior, with emphasis on the modeling and empirical study of cultural evolution, the importance and evolution of non-self-regarding motives in explaining behavior, and applications of these studies to policy areas such as intellectual property rights, the economics of education and the politics of government redistributive programs." The second is concerned with "the causes and consequences of economic inequality, with emphasis on the relationship between wealth inequalities, incomplete contracts, and governance of economic transactions in firms, markets, families and communities."[2]

He frequently collaborates with his former colleague, Herbert Gintis (another Emeritus Professor of Economics from Umass Amherst), both of whom were asked by Martin Luther King Jr. to write background papers for the 1968 Poor People's March.

In addition, he works with and is supported by The MacArthur Research Network on Preferences, The MacArthur Research Network on the Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance, and the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute.

He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books, and is currently working with Gintis on the manuscript for A Cooperative Species: Human Sociality and its Evolution

[edit] References

  1. ^ UMass Amherst Dept. of Economics Faculty
  2. ^ Samuel Bowles

[edit] Books

  • Planning Educational Systems for Economic Growth (Harvard University Press, M.A., 1969).
  • Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life, co-authored with Herbert Gintis (Basic Books, N.Y., 1976).
  • Notes and Problems in Microeconomic Theory, co-authored with David Kendrick, 1st ed., with Peter Dixon, 2nd ed. (North Holland Texts in Mathematical Economics, Amsterdam, 1980).
  • Democracy and Capitalism: Property, Community, and the Contradictions of Modern Social Thought, co-authored with Herbert Gintis (Basic Books, N.Y., 1987).
  • The Politics and Economics of Power, with M. Franzini and U. Paguano (Routledge, London, 1998).
  • Recasting Egalitarianism: New Rules for Markets, Communities and States, with Herbert Gintis (Verso, London, 1999).
  • Meritocracy and Economic Inequality, co-edited with Kenneth Arrow and Steven Durlauf (Princeton University Press, N.J., 2000).
  • Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from 15 small-scale societies, co-authored and co-edited with Joe Henrich, Robert Boyd, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, and Herbert Gintis (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004).
  • Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution (Princeton University Press, N.J., 2004).
  • Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success, co-edited with Herbert Gintis and Melissa Osborne Groves (Princeton University Press and Russell Sage Foundation, 2005).
  • Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life, co-edited with Robert Boyd, Ernst Fehr and Herbert Gintis (MIT Press, M.A., 2005).
  • Poverty Traps, co -authored and co-edited with Steven Durlauf and Karla Hoff (Princeton University Press, N.J., 2005).
  • Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change, with Frank Roosevelt and Richard Edwards, 3rd ed. revised (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005).
  • Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution, co-edited with Pranab Bardhan and Michael Wallerstein (Princeton University Press and Russell Sage Foundation, 2005).
  • Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability, co-edited with Jean-Marie Baland and Pranab Bardhan (Princeton University Press, N.J., 2006).

[edit] Articles That Have Appeared in Anthologies or Collaborative Projects

  • "Hearts and Minds: A Social Model of U.S. Productivity Growth," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Washington D.C.: Brookings Institute, 1983, Volume 2, pp 381-450 (with Thomas Weisskopf and David Gordon).
  • "Long-Term Growth and the Cyclical Restoration of Profitability," in Michael Kruger, Richard Goodwin, and Alessandro Vercelli, eds, Nonlinear Models of Fluctuating Growth, Berlin: Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 1984, pp 86-102 (with David Gordon and Thomas Weisskopf).
  • "Social Institutions and Technical Change," in M. DeMatteo, Alessandro Vercelli and Richard Goodwin, eds, Technological and Social Factors in Long Term Economic Fluctuations, Berlin: Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 1986, pp 67-88.
  • "Wealth Inequality, Wealth Constraints and Economic Performance," in A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Handbook of Income Distribution, Amsterdam: North-Holland, 2000 (with Pranab Bardhan and Herbert Gintis).
  • “Individual Interactions, Group Conflicts, and the Evolution of Preferences,” in Steven Durlauf and Peyton Young, eds., Social Dynamics Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001, pp 155-190.
  • “The Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status: Education, Class, and Genetics,” in Marcus Feldman, ed., Genetics, Behavior and Society, Volume 6 pp 4132-4141, in Neil Smelser and Paul Baltes, eds., International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Oxford: Elsevier, 2001 (with Herbert Gintis.)
  • “Globalization and Redistribution: Feasible Egalitarianism in a Competitive World” in Richard Freeman, ed., Inequality around the world London: Palgrave, 2002, pp 230-263.
  • “Does Market Theory Apply to Biology” in Peter Hammerstein, ed., Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003, pp. 153-165 (with Peter Hammerstein).
  • “The origins of human cooperation” in Peter Hammerstein, ed., Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003, pp. 430-443 (with Herbert Gintis).
  • “Strong Reciprocity and the Welfare State” in S.-C. Kolm, et.al., eds, The Handbook on the Economics of Giving, Reciprocity and Altruism, Oxford: Elsevier, 2004 (with Christina Fong and Herbert Gintis)
  • “Pro-social emotions,” in The Economy as a Complex Evolving System III: Essays in Honor of Kenneth Arrow, L.Blume and Steven Durlauf, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005 (with Herbert Gintis).
  • “Institutional Poverty Traps” in Poverty Traps, Bowles, Durlauf, and Hoff eds., Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
  • “Social preferences and political behavior," in Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Behavior, Charles Tilly and Robert Goodin eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005 (with Herbert Gintis).
  • “The evolution of collective action," in Oxford Handbook on Political Economy. Donald Wittman and Barry Weingast eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005 (with Herbert Gintis).

[edit] Scholarly Articles

  • "The Efficient Allocation of Resources in Education," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 81, No. 2. (May, 1967):189-219 (winner of the Goldsmith Prize).
  • "The Determinants of Scholastic Achievement: An Appraisal of Some Recent Evidence," Journal of Human Resources, (Winter 1968) (with Henry M. Levin).
  • "Migration as Investment: Empirical Tests of the Human Investment Approach to Geographical Mobility," Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. LII, No. 4, (November 1970):356-362.
  • "The Aggregation of Labor Inputs in the Study of Growth and Planning: Experiments with a Two-Level CES Function," Journal of Political Economy, 78,1 (January/February 1970):68-81.
  • "Schooling and Inequality from Generation to Generation," Journal of Political Economy, (May/June 1972):S219-S251.
  • "The `Inheritance of IQ' and the Intergenerational Reproduction of Economic Inequality," Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. LVI, No. 1, (February 1974):39-51 (with Valerie Nelson).
  • “The Problem With Human Capital Theory,” American Economic Review 65,2 (May 1975):74-82.
  • "Capitalist Development and Educational Structure," World Development, 6 (April 1978):783-796.
  • "Technical Change and the Profit Rate: A Simple Proof of the Okishio Theorem," Cambridge Journal of Economics 5 (Summer 1981):183-186.
  • “The Welfare State and Long-Term Economic Growth: Marxian, Neoclassical, and Keynesian Approaches,” American Economic Review, 72, 2 (May 1982):341-345.
  • “Long Swings and the Non-reproductive Cycle,” American Economic Review, 73(2)((May 1983):152-157.
  • "The Production Process in a Competitive Economy: Walrasian, Marxian, and Neo-Hobbesian Models," American Economic Review, 76,1, (March, 1985):16-36.
  • "The Cost of Job Loss and the Incidence of Strikes," Review of Economics and Statistics, LXIX, 4 (November, 1987):584-592 (with Juliet Schor).
  • "Labor Discipline and Aggregate Demand: A Macroeconomic Model," American Economic Review, 78, 2 (May, 1988):395-400 (with Robert Boyer).
  • "Contested Exchange: Political Economy and Modern Economic Theory," in American Economic Review, 78, 2 (May, 1988), 145-150 (with Herbert Gintis).
  • "Business Ascendancy and Economic Impasse: A Structural Retrospective on Conservative Economics, 1979-1986," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 3,1, (Winter 1989):107-134 (with David Gordon and Thomas Weisskopf).
  • "Power and Wealth in a Competitive Capitalist Economy," Philosophy and Public Affairs 21,4 (Fall, 1992):324-353 (with Herbert Gintis).
  • "The Revenge of Homo economicus: Post-Walrasian Economics and the Revival of Political Economy," Journal of Economic Perspectives 7,1(Winter, 1993):83- 102 (with Herbert Gintis).
  • "The Moral Economy of Communities: Structured Populations and the Evolution of Pro-social Norms," Evolution and Human Behavior 19,1 (January, 1998):3-25 (with Herbert Gintis).
  • "Endogenous Preferences: The Cultural Consequences of Markets and other Economic Institutions" Journal of Economic Literature XXXVI (March, 1998):75-111.
  • "Is Equality Passé? The Evolution of Reciprocity and the Future of Egalitarian Politics" Boston Review (Fall, 1998):4-10 (with Herbert Gintis).
  • “Reciprocity, Self interest and the Welfare State” Nordic Journal of Political Economy 26,1(January, 2000) (with Herbert Gintis).
  • “Walrasian Economics in Retrospect,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, (November, 2000):1411-1439 (with Herbert Gintis).
  • “Economic Institutions as Ecological Niches,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23,1(February, 2000): 148-149.
  • “In Search of Homo economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Simple Societies” American Economic Review 91,2(May, 2001):73-78 (with R.Boyd, C. Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis, Joe Henrich, and R. McElreath).
  • “Incentive enhancing preferences” American Economic Review, 91,2(May 2001):155- 158 (with Herbert Gintis and Melissa Osborne).
  • “Costly Signaling and Cooperation,” Journal of Theoretical Biology, 213 2001):103-119 (with Herbert Gintis and Eric Smith).
  • “Individual Behavior and Social Interactions” Sociological Methodology, 31 (2001):89-96.
  • “The Inheritance of Inequality” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16,3(Summer, 2002):1-28 (with Herbert Gintis).
  • "The Determinants of Individual Earnings: A Behavioral Approach,” Journal of Economic Literature XXXIX(December, 2001): 1136-1176 (with Herbert Gintis and Melissa Osborne)
  • “Homo reciprocans,” Nature, January 10, 2002: pp 125-128 (with Herbert Gintis).
  • “‘Social Capital’ and Community Governance,” Economic Journal, 112(483) (November, 2002):F419-436 (with Herbert Gintis).
  • “Explaining Altruistic Behavior in Humans” Evolution and Human Behavior, 24(2003):153-172 (co- authored with Gintis, Robert Boyd and Ernst Fehr).
  • “The co-evolution of individual behaviors and social institutions” Journal of Theoretical Biology, 223(2):135-147. (2002, with Jung-Kyoo Choi and Astrid Hopfensitz).
  • “The evolution of altruistic punishment,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 100(6) (March 18, 2003):3531-3535 (with Robert Boyd, Herbert Gintis, and Peter Richerson).
  • “Persistent Parochialism: the Dynamics of Trust and Exclusion in Networks,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 55, 2004, pp1-23 (with Herbert Gintis)
  • “The evolution of strong reciprocity: cooperation in heterogeneous populations” Theoretical Population Biology, 65(2004):17-28 (with Herbert Gintis)
  • “Economic Man in Cross Cultural Perspective: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Simple Societies” with Joe Henrich, Robert Boyd, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis, and Richard McElreath, Behavioral and Brain Science.[citation needed]
  • "Genetic relatedness predicts South African migrant workers’ remittances to their families." Nature (17 March, 2005) with Dorrit Posel.
  • “Emulation, Inequality, and Work Hours: Was Thorsten Veblen Right?” (with Yongjin Park) Economic Journal, 2005.[citation needed]
  • “Guard Labor” (with Arjun Jayadev) Journal of Development Economics, 2006, vol. 79, issue 2, pages 328-348.

[edit] Works in Progress (According to the Author, July 2005)

  • A Cooperative Species: Human Sociality and its Evolution (manuscript in preparation,

with Herbert Gintis.)

  • “The First Property Rights Revolution,” Santa Fe Institute Working Paper, (with Jungkyoo Choi)
  • “Power and Conflict in Biological Markets,” (with Peter Hammerstein).
  • “Parochial altruism” (with Jung Kyoo Choi).
  • “Culture Matters: Interpretation and Inferences from Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small Scale Societies,” to appear in Melissa Brown, Toward a Science of Culture (with Herbert Gintis).
  • "Institutional equilibrium selection by intentional idiosyncratic play." Santa Fe Institute working paper, with Suresh Naidu (under review at Journal of Economic Theory).
  • “Equality’s Fate: a natural history.”
  • “Social Segregation and the Dynamics of Group Inequality” (with Rajiv Sethi).
  • “Social Preferences and Public Policy,"

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