2026 Herbert Gintis: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	74	355	246	271	59278

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Economics and Finance

355

246

271

59278

Research.com Recognitions

2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Herbert Gintis was affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute in the United States. Their research career involved substantial contributions to social sciences, economics, econometrics, and finance with a total of 13 publications in social sciences and 6 in economics and related fields.

Their work covered several specialized subfields, including sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, safety research, management science and operations research, and gender studies.

Research topics addressed by Herbert Gintis encompassed:

Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Economic theories and models
Game Theory and Applications
Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies

Herbert Gintis authored key papers in collaboration mainly with Samuel Bowles, with several recent publications highlighting the focus of their research:

The Evolution of Strong Reciprocity, 2021, published in RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
The Determinants of Earnings: Skills, Preferences, and Schooling, 2021, published in Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Optimal Parochialism: The Dynamics of Trust and Exclusion in Networks, 2021, published in RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
Risk Aversion, Insurance, and the Efficiency-Equality Tradeoff, 2021, published in Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Walrasian Economics in Retrospect, 2021, published in Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Frequent coauthors included Samuel Bowles, who collaborated on multiple publications with Gintis, along with Melissa Osborne.

Publication venues where Herbert Gintis most frequently appeared included:

Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

Herbert Gintis received recognition as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012.

Best Publications

Schooling in Capitalist America

B. R. Cosin;S. Bowles;H. Gintis

4203
Citations
In search of homo economicus: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies

Joseph Henrich;Robert Boyd;Samuel Bowles;Colin F. Camerer

3959
Citations
Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life

Samuel Bowles;Herbert Gintis

3910
Citations
Game Theory Evolving

Herbert Gintis

2956
Citations
Game theory evolving : a problem-centered introduction to modeling strategic behavior

Herbert Gintis

2848
Citations
“Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies

Joseph Henrich;Robert Boyd;Samuel Bowles;Colin Camerer

2784
Citations
Social Capital And Community Governance

Samuel Bowles;Herbert Gintis

2698
Citations
The evolution of altruistic punishment

Robert Boyd;Herbert Gintis;Samuel Bowles;Peter J. Richerson

2376
Citations
Foundations of Human Sociality - Economic Experiments and Ethnographic: Evidence From Fifteen Small-Scale Societies

Joseph Henrich;Robert Boyd;Samuel Bowles;Samuel Bowles;Colin F. Camerer

2217
Citations
Democracy and Capitalism: Property, Community, and the Contradictions of Modern Social Thought

Samuel Bowles;Herbert Gintis

1936
Citations
Strong Reciprocity and Human Sociality

Herbert Gintis

1744
Citations
The Determinants of Earnings: A Behavioral Approach

Samuel Bowles;Herbert Gintis;Melissa Osborne

1715
Citations
Explaining altruistic behavior in humans

Herbert Gintis;Herbert Gintis;Samuel Bowles;Samuel Bowles;Robert Boyd;Ernst Fehr

1618
Citations
The Inheritance of Inequality

Samuel Bowles;Herbert Gintis

1487
Citations
Moral sentiments and material interests : the foundations of cooperation in economic life

Herbert Gintis;Samuel Bowles;Robert Boyd

1290
Citations
Costly signaling and cooperation.

Herbert Gintis;Eric Alden Smith;Samuel Bowles

1273
Citations
Schooling in capitalist America revisited

Samuel Bowles;Herbert Gintis

1210
Citations
The bounds of reason

Herbert Gintis

1148
Citations
The Bounds of Reason: Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences - Revised Edition

Herbert Gintis

1108
Citations
Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America

Jeffrey A. Raffel;Christopher Jencks;Marshall Smith;Henry Acland

931
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel Bowles Santa Fe Institute

Ernst Fehr University of Zurich

Robert Boyd Arizona State University

Colin F. Camerer California Institute of Technology

Richard McElreath Max Planck Society

Peter J. Richerson University of California, Davis

Michael Gurven University of California, Santa Barbara

Frank W. Marlowe University of Cambridge

Gerald Epstein University of Massachusetts Amherst

Jeffrey P. Carpenter Middlebury College

External Links

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