Linked with Social Preferences and Public Economics, and with Is Equality Passé?
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. 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. (full text).
Wikipedia’s disambiguation page about two Samuel Bowles.
Bowles’ recent papers and other information can be found on his webpage; also on Sam Bowles’.
Read: The Inheritance of Inequality, by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, July 14, 2002.
Samuel Bowles – USA
Samuel Bowles in the Santa Fe Institute, and his Abbreviated CV in University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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. »