Herbert Gintis - Author

Author

Gintis is an editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books, some of which include:

• (2011), The Dynamics of Pure Market Exchange, April 2011
• (2011), Common Knowledge of Rationality is Self-Contradictory, forthcoming, Ken Binmore and Samir Okasha, Evolution, Cooperation, and Rationality (Oxford University Press)
• (2011), Hayek's Contribution to a Reconstruction of Economic Theory, forthcoming, Hayek and Behavioral Economics (Macmillan, Palgrave)
• (2011). with Samuel Bowles, A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and its Evolution (Princeton University Press).
• (2010), with Robert Boyd and Samuel Bowles, Coordinated Contingent Punishment is Group-Beneficial and Can Proliferate When Rare, Science, 328, 617.
• (2010), Reflections on Darwinian Liberalism, Cato Unbound, July 21
• (2010), Review of Ken Binmore, Rational Decisions, The Economic Journal
• (2010), Social Norms as Choreography, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics 9,3
• (2010), Gene-Culture Coevolution and the Nature of Human Sociality, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
• (2010), Behavioral Ethics, in Edward Slingerland and Mark Collard (eds),Integrating Science and the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• (2010), Experimental Economics Will Foster a Renaissance of Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
• (2010), with Catherine Eckel, Blaming the Messenger: Notes on the Current State of Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
• (2010), Animal Spirits or Complex Dynamics: A Review of Akerlof and Shiller, Journal of Economic Psychology
• (2009). The Bounds of Reason: Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences (Princeton University Press).
• (2009). "A New Nash Equilibrium Refinement: The Local Best Response Criterion," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
• (2009). with Jeffrey Carpenter, Samuel Bowles, and Sung Ha Hwang, "Strong Reciprocity and Team Production," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
• (2009). with Ross Cressman and Thijs Ruijgrok, "Subgame Perfection in Evolutionary Dynamics with Recurrent Mutations," in J. Barkley Rosser (ed.) Handbook of Research on Complexity, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar: 353—368.
• (2008). "Cooperation and Punishment," Science 7 March: 1345—1346.
• (2007). "The Evolution of Private Property," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 64,1: 1--16.
• (2007). "A Framework for the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences," Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30: 1--61.
• (2007). "The Dynamics of General Equilibrium," Economic Journal, 117: 1280—1309.
• (2007). with Ernst Fehr, "Human Nature and Social Cooperation: Analytical and Experimental Foundations," Annual Review of Sociology, 33: 43—64.
• (2007). with Samuel Bowles, "Homo Economicus and Zoon Politicon: Behavioral Game Theory and Political Behavior," Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis.
• (2006). "The Emergence of a Price System from Decentralized Bilateral Exchange," Contributions to Theoretical Economics 6,1,13.
• (2006). with Samuel Bowles, "Evolutionary Origins of Collective Action," in Donald Wittman and Barry Weingast, Oxford Handbook of Political Economy (Oxford University Press)
• (2005). with Samuel Bowles and Melissa Osborne, Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success (Princeton University Press)
• (2005). with Samuel Bowles, "The Evolutionary Origins of Collective Action," Oxford Handbook of Political Economy.
• (2005). with Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd, and Ernst Fehr, Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: On the Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life (Cambridge, MIT Press).
• (2005). et al. "'Economic Man' in Cross-cultural Perspective: Ethnography and Experiments from 15 Small-scale Societies," Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28: 795—855.
• (2004). with Joe Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer and Ernst Fehr, Foundations of Human Sociality: Ethnography and Experiments in Fifteen Small-scale Societies (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
• (2004). "Economic Interests: Do Strangers Cooperate when they have to Work Together?" Nature 431 (16 September):245—246.
• (2004). with Samuel Bowles, "The Evolution of Strong Reciprocity: Cooperation in Heterogeneous Populations" Theoretical Population Biology 61: 17—28.
• (2003). with Samuel Bowles, "Persistent Parochialism: Trust and Exclusion in Ethnic Networks," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 55,1: 1--23.
• (2003). with Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd and Ernst Fehr, "Explaining Altruistic Behavior in Humans," Evolution & Human Behavior 24:153-172.
• (2003). with Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles and Peter J. Richerson,"Evolution of Altruistic Punishment" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100,6: 3531—3535.
• (2003). "Solving The Puzzle of Prosociality," Rationality and Society 15,2.
• (2003). "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Altruism: Genes-Culture Coevolution and the Internalization of Norms," Journal of Theoretical Biology 220,4: 407—418.
• (2002). with Samuel Bowles, "Homo Reciprocans: Altruistic Punishment of Free Riders," Nature 415, 10 January: 125—128.
• (2002). with Samuel Bowles, "Intergenerational Inequality," Journal of Economic Perspectives 16,3:3--30.
• (2002). with Christina M. Fong and Samuel Bowles, "Reciprocity and the Welfare State," in Jean Mercier-Ythier, Serge Kolm and Louis-Andre Gerard-Varet," (eds.) Handbook on the Economics of Giving, Reciprocity and Altruism (Amsterdam: Elsevier).
• (2002). with Samuel Bowles, "Social Capital and Community Governance," Economic Journal 112,483: 419—436.
• (2001). with Samuel Bowles and Melissa Osborne, "The Determinants of Individual Earnings: Skills, Preferences, and Schooling," Journal of Economic Literature, 39,4: 1137-1176.
• (2001). with Eric Alden Smith and Samuel Bowles, "Costly Signaling and Cooperation," Journal of Theoretical Biology 213: 103-119.
• (2001). et al. "Cooperation, Reciprocity and Punishment in Fifteen Small-scale Societies," American Economic Review 91: 73—78.
• (2001). with Samuel Bowles, "Contested Exchange: A New Microeconomics of Capitalism," in Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Makoto Itoh, and Nobuharu Yokokawa (eds.) Capitalism in Evolution (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar): 21—35.
• (2001) with Samuel Bowles, "The Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status: Education, Class, and Genetics," in N. J. Smelser and Paul Baltes, eds., International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Oxford, Pergamon).
• (2000). "Strong Reciprocity and Human Sociality," Journal of Theoretical Biology 206: 169—179.
• (2000). Game Theory Evolving (Princeton: Princeton University Press)
• (2000). with Samuel Bowles, "Walrasian Economics in Retrospect" Quarterly Journal of Economics: 1411-1439.
• (2000). "Beyond Homo Economicus," Ecological Economics, 35,3: 311—322.
• (1999). with Samuel Bowles, "Is Inequality Passe?" Boston Review 23,6: 4--35.
• (1999). with Samuel Bowles, Recasting Egalitarianism: New Rules for Markets, States, and Communities, Erik Olin Wright (ed.), (New York: Verso).
• (1998). with Samuel Bowles, "The Moral Economy of Community: Structured Populations and the Evolution of Prosocial Norms" Evolution & Human Behavior 19,1: 3--25.
• (1998). with Pranab Bardhan and Samuel Bowles, "Wealth Inequality, Credit Constraints, and Economic Performance" Anthony Atkinson and Francois Bourguignon (eds.), in Handbook of Income Distribution (North Holland).
• (1998). with Samuel Bowles, "How Communities Govern: The Structural Basis of Prosocial Norms," in Louis Putterman and Avner Ben-Ner (eds.) Economics, Values and Organizations (New York: Cambridge University Press).
• (1997). "A Markov Model of Production, Trade, and Money: Theory and Artificial Life Simulation," Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (3,1): 19—41.
• (1996). with Samuel Bowles, "Efficient Redistribution: New Rules for Markets, States, and Communities," Politics & Society 24,4: 307-342.
• (1995). with Samuel Bowles, "Productivity Enhancing Egalitarian Policies," International Labour Review, 134,4-5: 559-585.
• (1995). Herbert Gintis, "The Political Economy of School Choice," Teachers College Record 96,3.
• (1993). with Samuel Bowles, "The Revenge of Homo Economicus: Contested Exchange and the Revival of Political Economy," Journal of Economic Perspectives 7,1: 83—102.
• (1991). "Where Did Schumpeter Go Wrong?: Understanding Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy," Challenge.
• (1989). "Financial Markets and the Political Structure of the Enterprise," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 11: 311—322.
• (1988). with Samuel Bowles, "Contested Exchange: Political Economy and Modern Economic Theory," American Economic Review 78,2: 145—150.
• (1986). with Samuel Bowles Democracy and Capitalism: Property, Theory, and the Contradictions of Modern Social Theory (New York: Basic Books).
• (1983). "Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy Forty Years Later," Journal of Economic Literature.
• (1980). "Theory, Practice, and the Tools of Communicative Discourse," Socialist Review 50-51: 189—232.
• (1978). with Barry Clark, "Rawlsian Justice and Economic Systems," Philosophy and Public Affairs: 302—325.
• (1976). with Samuel Bowles, Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life (New York: Basic Books).
• (1976). "The Nature of the Labor Exchange of the Theory of Capitalist Production," Review of Radical Political Economics 8,2: 36—54.
• (1975). with Samuel Bowles, "The Problem with Human Capital Theory," American Economic Review 65,2: 74—82.
• (1975). "Welfare Economics and Individual Development: A Reply to Talcott Parsons," Quarterly Journal of Economics (June).
• (1974). "Welfare Criteria with Endogenous Preferences: The Economics of Education," International Economic Review 15,2: 415—429.
• (1973). with Samuel Bowles, "IQ in the U.S. Class Structure: A Statistical Analysis," Social Policy 3.
• (1972). with Christopher Jencks, et al., Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America (New York: Basic Books).
• (1972). "Consumer Behavior and the Concept of Sovereignty," American Economic Review 62,2: 267—278.
• (1972). "A Radical Analysis of Welfare Economics and Individual Development," Quarterly Journal of Economics 86: 572-599.
• (1971). "Education, Technology, and the Characteristics of Worker Productivity," American Economic Review 61,2: 266-279.