Talk:Samuel Bowles (economist)

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More information about this article... The following comments have been left for this page: It's nice that there is a picture and an infobox, but the article needs to be expanded and organized. Green caterpillar 00:12, 8 September 2006 (UTC) (edit)

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So I started this article after I read Democracy and Capitalism, and most of the information I culled from his personal website or other bios on other sites. His stuff is definitely interesting and wide-ranging, hopefully the article can expand to include some good explanation of his beliefs and arguments.

Also, I included this in the Philosophy wikiproject since so much of his work deals with economic philosophy, liberalism, neo-marxism, and the philosophy of education. Sam 00:00, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

This article needs to be expanded. A good source for info on Bowles is the 2000 edition of the Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists. The current article only touches on his current interests. However, he appears to have made large changes in focus in the early 1970s and early 1990s. He started off writing on conventional economic theory. He then wrote on radical economics, particularly on the Conflict Theory of the Firm, Education and critiques of orthodox human capital theorry, and the Social Structure of accumulation. Since the early 1990s (I would put the turning point at the Bowles and Gintis article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives of 1993) he has focused on a somewhat more conventional "post Walrasian" economics focusing on incomplete contracts that are costly to enforce and incomplete information, as well as in somewhat related research into behavioral and experimental economics. While still left of most of the economics mainstream, his politics have gotten considerably less radical as well. - the preceding unsigned comment was made by user: 65.35.245.113, on August 22 2006, 1:41 UTC