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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1980 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Samuel Bowles is affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of social sciences and economics, econometrics, and finance, with a notable focus on economics and econometrics as well as safety research, sociology and political science, and demography.

Bowles has contributed to multiple areas within these disciplines, including experimental behavioral economics studies, economic theory and institutions, culture, economy, and development studies, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, decision-making and behavioral economics, economic theories and models, and political economy and Marxism.

Their recent scholarly output includes several papers published in diverse economic and interdisciplinary venues:

  • What Students Learn in Economics 101: Time for a Change, 2020, Journal of Economic Literature
  • Overcoming COVID-19 Vaccination Resistance When Alternative Policies Affect the Dynamics of Conformism, Social Norms, and Crowding Out, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The Evolution of Strong Reciprocity, 2021, RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
  • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, 2023, Journal of Economic Literature
  • Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: A Preference-Based Lucas Critique of Public Policy, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal

Bowles has published books with established academic presses, including:

  • The Moral Economy, 2020, Yale University Press
  • Allocation, Distribution, and Policy, forthcoming 2025, Open Book Publishers

Frequent co-authors include Weikai Chen, Wendy Carlin, Herbert Gintis, Eric Alden Smith, and Frank W. Marlowe, with collaboration counts ranging from four to seventeen joint publications.

Their research has appeared repeatedly in key publication venues such as Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Journal of Economic Literature, RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and UNC Libraries.

Samuel Bowles has been recognized by prestigious institutions with awards including Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019 and Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1980.

Best Publications

  • Schooling in Capitalist America

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

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

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

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

    Samuel Bowles;Herbert Gintis

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

    Joseph Henrich;Robert Boyd;Samuel Bowles;Colin Camerer

  • Endogenous Preferences: The Cultural Consequences of Markets and Other Economic Institutions

    Samuel Bowles

  • Social Capital And Community Governance

    Samuel Bowles;Herbert Gintis

  • The evolution of altruistic punishment

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

  • 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

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

    Samuel Bowles;Herbert Gintis

  • The Determinants of Earnings: A Behavioral Approach

    Samuel Bowles;Herbert Gintis;Melissa Osborne

  • Explaining altruistic behavior in humans

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

  • The Inheritance of Inequality

    Samuel Bowles;Herbert Gintis

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

    Herbert Gintis;Samuel Bowles;Robert Boyd

  • Costly signaling and cooperation.

    Herbert Gintis;Eric Alden Smith;Samuel Bowles

  • Schooling in capitalist America revisited

    Samuel Bowles;Herbert Gintis

  • Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: Substitutes or Complements?

    Samuel Bowles;Sandra Polanía-Reyes

  • Microeconomics : behavior, institutions, and evolution

    Samuel Bowles

  • Policies Designed for Self-Interested Citizens May Undermine "The Moral Sentiments": Evidence from Economic Experiments

    Samuel Bowles;Samuel Bowles

  • Beyond the Waste Land: A Democratic Alternative to Economic Decline

    Samuel Bowles;David M. Gordon;Thomas E. Weisskopf

  • The Production Process in a Competitive Economy: Walrasian, Neo-Hobbesian, and Marxian Models

    Samuel Bowles

  • Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of

    Samuel Bowles;Herbert Gintis;Barbara Heyns

Frequent Co-Authors

Herbert Gintis
Herbert Gintis Santa Fe Institute
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder University of California, Davis
Robert Boyd
Robert Boyd Arizona State University
Michael Gurven
Michael Gurven University of California, Santa Barbara
Richard McElreath
Richard McElreath Max Planck Society
Eric Alden Smith
Eric Alden Smith University of Washington
Ernst Fehr
Ernst Fehr University of Zurich
Wendy Carlin
Wendy Carlin University College London
Frank W. Marlowe
Frank W. Marlowe University of Cambridge
Colin F. Camerer
Colin F. Camerer California Institute of Technology

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