Samuel Bowles

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Samuel Bowles

Samuel S. Bowles (* 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 has also been a director at the Santa Fe Institute.

job

Bowles deals on the one hand with the coevolution of preferences, institutions and behavior, with an emphasis on the modeling and empirical investigation of cultural evolution , the meaning and evolution of cooperative motives for the explanation of behavior, as well as the application to political issues such as intellectual property rights , education or state Redistribution .

His second area of ​​research is social inequality, with a focus on the relationship to incomplete contracts and economic transactions in companies, markets, families and communities. This includes research into 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, as well as the relationship between globalization and redistribution.

Honors

Works (selection)

  • A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution (with Herbert Gintis ). Princeton University Press, 2011. ISBN 0691151253 .
  • Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, & Evolution: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution . Princeton University Press, 2003. ISBN 0691091633 .
  • Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life: The Foundation of Cooperation in Economic Life (eds., With Herbert Gintis, Ernst Fehr ). The MIT Press, 2005. ISBN 9780262072526 .
  • Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success . Princeton University Press, 2005. ISBN 9780691119304 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. ase.tufts.edu, accessed October 12, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Bowles, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bowles, Samuel S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1939