Samuel Bowles

Samuel Bowles is a researcher at the Santa Fe Institute and author of The New Economics of Inequality and Redistribution and the forthcoming Machiavellli’s Mistake: Why Good Laws Are No Substitute for Good Citizens.

Everyday Economists

The postwar generation understood why a prosperous working class is crucial to the economy. Can economics be accessible again to ordinary Americans?

  • Samuel Bowles
  • Joshua Cohen

How Markets Crowd In Morals

Markets do not, as Sandel fears, lead to a languishing of the civic virtues on which these societies depend.

  • Samuel Bowles

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
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