Congress on Capitalism in the seventies, Tilburg, the Netherlands (1970). Left to right: Ernst Mandel, Herbert Gintis, Bob Rowthorn, Elmar Altvater and organiser Theo van de Klundert
Born
Herbert Malena Gintis
(1940-02-11)February 11, 1940
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died
January 5, 2023(2023-01-05) (aged 82)
Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality
American
Academic background
Alma mater
University of Pennsylvania (BA)
Harvard University (PhD)
Influences
Karl Polanyi, Samuel Bowles, E.O. Wilson
Academic work
Main interests
Economics, behavioral science, sociobiology
Notable works
Schooling in Capitalist America (1976)
Democracy and Capitalism (1986)
The Bounds of Reason (2009)
A Cooperative Species (2011)
Herbert Gintis (February 11, 1940 – January 5, 2023) was an American economist, behavioral scientist, and educator known for his theoretical contributions to sociobiology, especially altruism, cooperation, epistemic game theory, gene-culture coevolution, efficiency wages, strong reciprocity, and human capital theory. Throughout his career, he worked extensively with economist Samuel Bowles. Their landmark book, Schooling in Capitalist America, had multiple editions in five languages since it was first published in 1976. Their book, A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and its Evolution was published by Princeton University Press in 2011.
project has been published in two books co-edited by Gintis and other project members: Gintis, Herbert; Fehr, Ernst; Bowles, Samuel; Boyd, Robert (2005)...
Contradictions of Economic Life is a 1976 book by economists Samuel Bowles and HerbertGintis. Widely considered a groundbreaking work in sociology of education,[citation...
doi:10.1126/science.1133755. ISSN 0036-8075. PMC 3279745. PMID 17158317. HerbertGintis, Samuel Bowles, A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution...
Press HerbertGintis. Centre for the study of Governance and Society CSGS(Rational Choice and Political Behaviour: A lecture by HerbertGintis. YouTube...
symmetric. Several variants are considered in Game Theory Evolving by HerbertGintis. In some variants of the problem, the players are allowed to communicate...
of Lev Vygotsky and the pedagogy of Paulo Freire, Samuel Bowles and HerbertGintis' Schooling in Capitalist America is a study of educational reform in...
22, 1859 Archived 2008-07-31 at the Wayback Machine Bowles, Samuel; Gintis, Herbert (May 1975). "The Problem with Human Capital Theory—A Marxian Critique"...
politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1969–1980). HerbertGintis, 82, American economist, behavioral scientist and author (Schooling...
1038/nature03701. PMID 15931222. S2CID 1234727. Bowles, Samuel and HerbertGintis "A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and its Evolution" (Princeton...
50–50 split is the only just solution to the Nash bargaining game. HerbertGintis supports a similar theory, holding that humans have evolved to a predisposition...
Other social scientists Christopher Badcock Samuel Bowles Ernst Fehr HerbertGintis Dominic D. P. Johnson Gad Saad Literary theorists / philosophers Edmund...
Joseph, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, and HerbertGintis (2004). Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic...
doi:10.1515/semi.1972.5.1.1. S2CID 170413096. http://www.umass.edu/preferen/gintis/homo.pdf Homo reciprocans: A Research Initiative on the Origins, Dimensions...
and Evolution, Russell Sage Foundation, New York Samuel Bowles and HerbertGintis, Mutual Monitoring in Teams: The Effects of Residual Claimancy and Reciprocity...
attachment to others is not a cultural act but an act of survival. HerbertGintis, in his review of the book Sex at Dawn, critiques the idea that human...
"The Changing Effect of Family Background" (PDF). In Samuel Bowles; HerbertGintis (eds.). Family Background and Economic Success. Princeton University...
Dolan Stephen Duneier Catherine C. Eckel Armin Falk Urs Fischbacher HerbertGintis Uri Gneezy David Halpern Charles A. Holt David Ryan Just Daniel Kahneman...
of law that commodified knowledge and information. Samuel Bowles and HerbertGintis critically reviewed the belief systems of the theory of human capital...
response to a rapidly changing climate. In 2003, the behavioral scientist HerbertGintis examined cultural evolution statistically, offering evidence that societies...
advancing previous work in education studies by Samuel Bowles and HerbertGintis's Schooling in Capitalist America, as well as work by Michael Apple and...
and Society. Perry Anderson, In the Tracks of Historical Materialism. HerbertGintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert T. Boyd and Ernst Fehr, Moral Sentiments and...
Organization - economics lecture in which the Peace War Game is an example. HerbertGintis, Game Theory Evolving: A Problem-centered Introduction to Modeling Strategic...
proposed by HerbertGintis in 2000, which contained a number of simplifying assumptions addressed in later models. In 2004, Samuel Bowles and Gintis presented...
1946) Carl Duser, 90, baseball player (Kansas City Athletics) (b. 1932) HerbertGintis, 82, economist, behavioral scientist and author (Schooling in Capitalist...
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