Herbert Gintis

Herbert Gintis, Professor of Economics at Central European University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, is author of The Bounds of Reason.

Giving Economists Their Due

Sandel makes two serious errors in his defense of morality over markets.

  • Herbert Gintis

Is Equality in Our Nature?

Pessimism about a selfish electorate is fundamentally misdirected.

  • Samuel Bowles
  • Herbert Gintis
with responses from
  • Martin Gilens
  • Robert Haveman
  • Philippe Van Parijs
  • Steven M. Teles
  • Ruy Teixeira
  • David Sloan Wilson
  • Steven N. Durlauf
  • Nancy Folbre
  • Stuart White
  • Kristen Monroe
  • Susan E. Mayer
  • Kevin McCabe & Vernon Smith

Is Equality Passé?

The welfare state is in trouble not because selfishness is rampant (it is not), but because many egalitarian programs no longer evoke deeply held notions of fairness.

  • Samuel Bowles
  • Herbert Gintis

Is Equality in Our Nature? — Final Response

Reciprocity and distributive justice.

  • Samuel Bowles
  • Herbert Gintis

The Ownership Solution — Forum Response

Jeffersonian Capitalism

  • Herbert Gintis

A Defense of Communal Values

  • Herbert Gintis
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