Herbert Gintis

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name = Herbert Gintis


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birth_date = 1939
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residence = United States
nationality = American
field = Economics
work_institution = Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, 1976-2002
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known_for = Altruism, Collective intelligence, Common knowledge (logic), Cooperation, Dual inheritance theory, Efficiency wages, Game theory, Generalized Reciprocity, Human capital, Labour power, Relations of production

Herbert Gintis (born 1939) is an American behavioral scientist, marxian economist, educator, and author. He is notable for his foundational views on Altruism, Collective intelligence, Common knowledge (logic), Cooperation, Dual inheritance theory, Efficiency wages, Generalized Reciprocity, Human capital, Labour power, Relations of production. Gintis has also written extensively on game theory, and his views are cited in reference to the Ultimatum game and the Dictator game.

Gintis received his B.A. in Mathematics from University of Pennsylvania in 1961. The following year, he received an M.A. in Mathematics from Harvard University. In 1969, he received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard after acceptance of his dissertation, "Alienation and power towards a radical welfare economics". [cite web |url=http://www.econ.ceu.hu/download/CV/CV_Gintis.pdf |title=CV Herbert Gintis |accessdate=2008-09-07 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date= |work= |publisher=econ.ceu.hu] [cite web |url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47441592&referer=brief_results |title=Alienation and power towards a radical welfare economics |accessdate=2008-09-07 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date= |work= |publisher=worldcat.org] He is influenced by the economist, Samuel Bowles. Both Gintis and Bowles were asked by Martin Luther King Jr. to write papers for the 1968 Poor People's March. Gintis and others were also 1968 co-founders of Union for Radical Political Economics. [cite book |title=A biographical dictionary of dissenting economists |last=Arestis |first=P. |coauthors=Sawyer, M.C. |year=2000 |publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing |location= |isbn=1858985609 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Gi1-hW3cfo4C&pg=PA226&lpg=PA226&dq=%22Herbert+Gintis%22+1939&source=web&ots=V1KObwAqcK&sig=efmIJZN2XPPXdBJ9xxCpjuNRd1Y&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPA75,M1 |pages=p. 75]

Gintis is currently Professor at Central European University and Emeritus Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts.

Author

Gintis has been an editor of "Socialist Review". He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books, some of which include:
* (19??). "Poverty Economics". Boston: New England Free Press.
* (1970). "Neo-classical welfare economics and individual development". Cambridge, Mass: Union for Radical Political Economics.
* (1971). "Education, Technology, and the Characteristics of Worker Productivity". "American Economic Review". 61 (2), 266-279.
* Gintis, H., & Silberman, C. E. (1971). "The politics of education". Cambridge: Center for Educational Policy Research, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
* (1971). "A radical analysis of welfare economics and individual development". Cambridge, Mass: Center for Educational Policy Research, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
* (1971). "Activism and counter-culture; the dialectics of consciousness in the corporate state". Cambrige: The Center for Educational Policy Research, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
* (1972). "Consumer behavior and the concept of sovereignty; explanations of social decay". Cambridge: [The center for Educational Policy Research] Harvard Graduate School of Education.
* (1972). "On commodity fetishism and irrational production". Policy research in education, no. 32. Cambridge, MA: Center for Educational Policy Research, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
* Bowles, S., & Gintis, H. (1976). "Schooling in capitalist America: educational reform and the contradictions of economic life". New York: Basic Books. ISBN 0465072305
* (1996). "A Markov model of production, trade, and money: theory and artificial life simulation". Santa Fe, N.M.: Santa Fe Institute.
* (2000). "Game theory evolving: a problem-centered introduction to modeling strategic behavior". Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691009422
* (2009). "The bounds of reason: game theory and the unification of the behavioral sciences". Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691140520

References

ee also

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External links

* [http://www.econ.ceu.hu/download/CV/CV_Gintis.pdf Curriculum Vitae]
* [http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~gintis/ Link to publications]
* [http://letters.salon.com/2d064d153746ee92c8fc5afb80b44576/author/ Blog]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=Gi1-hW3cfo4C&pg=PA226&lpg=PA226&dq=%22Herbert+Gintis%22+1939&source=web&ots=V1KObwAqcK&sig=efmIJZN2XPPXdBJ9xxCpjuNRd1Y&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPA226,M1 Memoir, pages 226-232]

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