Bowles, Samuel

Professor of Economics, faculty of Economics
 
Research interests: behavioral economics, microeconomics
Telephone: 0577 235052   (int. 5052)
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Short profile:
  • B.A., Yale University, 1960.
  • Ph.D. (Economics), Harvard University, 1965.
  • Harvard University, Associate Professor (1971-74) and Assistant Professor (1965-71).
  • University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Professor 1974 to 2002 (now Emeritus).
  • Santa Fe Institute, Research Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program
  • Research Network on Inequality and Economic Performance (MacArthur Foundation), Founder and Co-director, 1993-2007

- Ph.D. (Economics), Harvard University, 1965.
- Harvard University, Associate Professor (1971-74) and Assistant Professor (1965-71).
- University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Professor 1974 to 2002 (now Emeritus).
- Santa Fe Institute, Research Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program
- Research Network on Inequality and Economic Performance (MacArthur Foundation), Founder and Co-director, 1993-2007

Main publications:
  • 2011. "Inequality and Network Structure." Games and Economic Behavior, in press. (with Kets et al.)
  • 2011. Machiavelli's Mistake: Why good laws are no substitute for good citizens. Yale Press (2011).
  • 2011. A Cooperative Species: Human Sociality and its Evolution. Princeton Press (in press) with Gintis
  • 2010. "Coordinated Punishment of Defectors Sustains Cooperation and Can Proliferate When Rare." Science, 328.
  • 2009. "Did Warfare among Ancestral Hunter-Gatherer Groups Affect the Evolution of Human Social Behaviors." Science, 324.
  • 2008. “Conflict: Cooperation’s Midwife.” Nature 456
  • 2008. “Policies Designed for Self Interested Citizens May Undermine ‘The Moral Sentiments’:Evidence from Experiments.” Science 320
  • 2008. “Social Preferences and Public Economics: Mechanism Design when Preferences Depend on Incentives." Journal of Public Economics 92 (with Hwang)