Samuel Bowles

Datos Biográficos

ID5180959
NOMBRESamuel Bowles
NOMBRESSamuel
APELLIDOBowles
FIRMABOWLES S
AFILIACIONESEconomics, University of Siena
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS100
TOTAL DE CITAS1596
TOTAL COMO AUTOR93
TOTAL COMO EDITOR14
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1970
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H18

  • Herbert Gintis and the Societal Origins of Preferences

    Open AccessSamuel Bowle, Samuel BowlesARTICLEReview of Radical Political…2024

    In this personal memoir of my lifelong collaborator and friend, Herb Gintis, I reflect on his “A Radical Analysis of Welfare Economics and Individual Development.” Published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics in 1972, the article advances a novel Marx-inspired interpretation of the societal origins of preferences, one that profoundly influenced the ideas of a group of like-minded young economists at Harvard at the time, economics more broadly,…

  • Foundations of an Expanded Community of Fate

    Open AccessSamuel Bowle, Samuel Bowles et al.ARTICLEDaedalus2023Referencias: 1

    We develop a representation of markets, states, and civil society as aspects of institutions and policies that might provide the foundations of the expanded community of fate proposed by Margaret Levi and Zachary Ugolnik. What we term our “synergy simplex” provides a language and roadmap for researching and debating the alternatives, a process that the authors (and the moral political economy project they lead) have so fruitfully launched

  • Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution

    Pranab Bardhan, Samuel Bowles et al.BOOKGlobalization and Egalitarian…2020

  • A Democratic Economic Policy

    Samuel Bowle, Samuel Bowles et al.CHAPTERDemocrats Must Lead2019

    The development of a democratic and egalitarian alternative is long overdue. This chapter outlines the basic objectives and underlying logic. It examines the manner in which a democratic program would address the macroeconomic issues of deficits, productivity growth, and investment. The chapter considers how to overcome some potential barriers to the implementation of a democratic economics in the United States. A democratic economics seeks susta…

  • The farming-inequality nexus

    Open AccessAmy Bogaard, Mattia Fochesato et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2019Citada por: 26Referencias: 27

  • Comparing ancient inequalities

    Open AccessMattia Fochesato, Amy Bogaard et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2019Citada por: 13Referencias: 13

  • Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability

    Jean-Marie Baland, Pranab Bardhan et al.BOOKInequality, Cooperation, and…2018

    Does inequality exacerbate environmental problems?Would an equal ization of wealth, social status, and political power contribute to environ mental sustainability?Or is environmental degradation a likely byproduct of efforts to advance the economic, social, and political interests of the less well-off?In this book, we investigate the impact of inequality on envi ronmental sustainability.We focus on local commons as they are essential to the livel…

  • Meritocracy and Economic Inequality

    Open AccessKenneth Joseph Arrow, Samuel Bowle et al.BOOKMeritocracy and Economic Inequality2018

  • Institution shocks and economic outcomes

    Open AccessDaniele Girardi, Samuel Bowle et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2018Citada por: 3Referencias: 13

  • The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution and the Origins of Private Property

    Open AccessSamuel Bowle, Samuel Bowles et al.ARTICLEJournal of Political Economy2018Citada por: 14Referencias: 42

    Familiar explanations of why hunter-gatherers first took up farming—superior labor productivity, population pressure, or adverse climate—receive little support from recent evidence. Farming would be an unlikely choice without possession-based private property, which appears to have existed among rare groups of sedentary hunter-gatherers who became the first farmers. Our model shows that among them, farming could have benefited first adopters beca…

  • Greater post-Neolithic wealth disparities in Eurasia than in North America and Mesoamerica

    Open AccessT A Kohler, Michael E Smith et al.ARTICLENature2017

  • Radical Political Economy

    Samuel Bowle, Samuel Bowles et al.CHAPTERThe History of Economics2017

    These two volumes collect some of the principal articles that have contributed to the renewal and development of radical political economy during the past generation. Radical Political Economy draws upon Marxian, institutional and Keynesian perspectives to construct a new and comprehensive analysis of modern capitalism, seeking to integrate the horizontal (competition), vertical (command), and time (change) dimensions of economic and other social…

  • Retrospectives

    Open AccessSamuel Bowle, Samuel Bowles et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Economic…2017Citada por: 1Referencias: 36

    Friedrich A. Hayek (1899-1992) is known for his vision of the market economy as an information processing system characterized by spontaneous order: the emergence of coherence through the independent actions of large numbers of individuals, each with limited and local knowledge, coordinated by prices that arise from decentralized processes of competition. Hayek is also known for his advocacy of a broad range of free market policies and, indeed, c…

  • The Evolutionary Basis of Collective Action

    Samuel Bowle, Samuel Bowles et al.CHAPTERThe Oxford handbook of political…2013

    This article discusses two problems in the study of political behaviours that support collective action. It reviews recent behavioural experiments documenting the variety and extent of these so called social preferences, as well as the manner in which the existence of individuals — even a minority — can affect group behaviour dramatically. This article shows that repeated interactions and kin-based altruism do not provide an adequate account of t…

  • Coevolution of farming and private property during the early Holocene

    Open AccessSamuel Bowle, Samuel Bowles et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2013

    The advent of farming around 12 millennia ago was a cultural as well as technological revolution, requiring a new system of property rights. Among mobile hunter–gatherers during the late Pleistocene, food was almost certainly widely shared as it was acquired. If a harvested crop or the meat of a domesticated animal were to have been distributed to other group members, a late Pleistocene would-be farmer would have had little incentive to engage in…

  • Explaining altruistic behaviour in humans

    Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowle et al.CHAPTEROxford handbook of evolutionary…2012

    This article presents evidence supporting strong reciprocity. It explains why, under conditions plausibly characteristic of the early stages of human evolution, a small fraction of strong reciprocators could invade a population of self-regarding types, and why strong reciprocity is an evolutionarily stable strategy. It uses the term ‘self-regarding’ rather than the more common term ‘self-interested’ to avoid the question as to whether it is selfi…

  • Economic Incentives and Social Preferences

    Samuel Bowle, Samuel Bowles et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Literature2012

    Explicit economic incentives designed to increase contributions to public goods and to promote other pro-social behavior sometimes are counterproductive or less effective than would be predicted among entirely self-interested individuals. This may occur when incentives adversely affect individuals' altruism, ethical norms, intrinsic motives to serve the public, and other social preferences. The opposite also occurs—crowding in —though it appears …

  • Democracy and Capitalism

    Samuel Bowle, Herbert M Gintis et al.BOOKDemocracy and Capitalism2012

  • A Cooperative Species

    Samuel Bowles, Herbert GintisBOOKA Cooperative Species2011

    Why do humans, uniquely among animals, cooperate in large numbers to advance projects for the common good? Contrary to the conventional wisdom in biology and economics, this generous and civic-minded behavior is widespread and cannot be explained simply by far-sighted self-interest or a desire to help close genealogical kin. This book shows that the central issue is not why selfish people act generously, but instead how genetic and cultural evolu…

  • Introduzione all’economia politica

    Open AccessSamuel Bowles, Richard Edwards et al.BOOKIntroduzione all’economia politica2011

  • Schooling in capitalist America

    Herbert Gintis, Herbert M Gintis et al.BOOKSchooling in capitalist America2011Citada por: 392

    ""This seminal work . . . establishes a persuasive new paradigm. Contemporary Sociology. No book since Schooling in Capitalist America has taken on the systemic forces hard at work undermining our education system. This classic reprint is an invaluable resource for radical educators. Samuel Bowles is research professor and director of the behavioral sciences program at the Santa Fe Institute, and professor emeritus of economics at the University …

  • Chapter 5. Institutional Poverty Traps

    Samuel Bowle, Samuel BowlesCHAPTERPoverty Traps2011

  • Poverty Traps

    Karla Ruth Hoff, Samuel S Bowles et al.BOOKPoverty Traps2011

    Much popular belief--and public policy--rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in their power to escape. But the persistence of poverty and ever-growing economic inequality around the world have led many economists to seriously question the model of individual economic self-determination when it comes to the poor. In Poverty Traps , Samuel Bowles, Steven Durlauf, Karla Hoff, and the book's other contributors argue that there are m…

  • A Cooperative Species

    Open AccessHerbert M Gintis, Samuel Bowles et al.BOOKCooperative Species2011

    A fascinating look at the evolutionary origins of cooperation Why do humans, uniquely among animals, cooperate in large numbers to advance projects for the common good? Contrary to the conventional wisdom in biology and economics, this generous and civic-minded behavior is widespread and cannot be explained simply by far-sighted self-interest or a desire to help close genealogical kin. In A Cooperative Species , Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis—p…

  • Is Liberal Society a Parasite on Tradition

    Open AccessSamuel Bowle, Samuel BowlesARTICLEPhilosophy & Public Affairs2011Citada por: 11