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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.

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Giving Economists Their Due

Giving Economists Their Due Michael Sandel makes two serious errors in his defense of morality

Herbert Gintis

Class & Inequality, Politics

Jeffersonian Capitalism

For most of the twentieth century, three broadly identifiable policy paradigms existed for

Herbert Gintis

Forum Response

Bowles and Gintis Reply

Some analysts trace the problems of the welfare state to waning public altruism and ascendant

Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis

Forum

Is Equality in Our Nature?

In the face of a hostile public, some egalitarians have soured on what they consider to be a selfish electorate that identifies with materialistic middle-class values and is indifferent to the plight of the poor. This pessimism is fundamentally misdirected.

Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

Is Equality Passé?

This article is part of “Is Equality in our Nature?” a forum on egalitarian politics. A man

Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis

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