Jump to content

Herbert Gintis: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous editNext edit →
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
SieBot (talk | contribs)
421,891 edits
Hgintis (talk | contribs)
97 edits
No edit summary
Line 4: Line 4:
|image_size =
|image_size =
|caption =
|caption =
|birth_date = 1939
|birth_date = 1940
|birth_place =
|birth_place = Philadelphia
|residence = [[United States]]
|residence = [[United States]]
|nationality = [[United States|American]]
|nationality = [[United States|American]]
|field = [[Economics]]
|field = [[Economics]]
|work_institution = Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, 1976-2002
|work_institution = Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, 1976-2002
|doctoral_advisor =
|doctoral_advisor = Arthur Smithies and James Duesenberry
|doctoral_students =
|doctoral_students = Jeffrey Carpenter and Christina Fong
|known_for = [[Altruism]], [[Collective intelligence]], [[Common knowledge (logic)]], [[Cooperation]], [[Dual inheritance theory]], [[Efficiency wages]], [[Game theory]], [[Reciprocity (social and political philosophy)#Patterns_of_Reciprocity|Generalized Reciprocity]], [[Human capital]], [[Labour power]], [[Relations of production]]
|known_for = [[Altruism]], [[Cooperation]], [[Epistemic Game Theory]], [[Cooperation]], [[Gene-culture Coevolution]], [[Contested Exchange]], [[Behavioral Game Theory]], [[Strong Reciprocity (social and political philosophy)#Patterns_of_Reciprocity|Generalized Reciprocity]], [[Human capital]], [[Unification of the Behavioral Sciences]]
}}
}}


'''Herbert Gintis''' (born 1939) is an American [[behavioral scientist]], [[List of marxian economists|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]], [[Reciprocity (social and political philosophy)#Patterns_of_Reciprocity|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]].
'''Herbert Gintis''' (born 1940) is an American [[behavioral scientist]], educator, and author. He is notable for his foundational views on [[Altruism]], [[Cooperation]], [[Epistemic Game Theory]], [[Gene-culture Coevolution]], [[Efficiency wages]], [[Reciprocity (social and political philosophy)#Patterns_of_Reciprocity|Generalized Reciprocity]], [[Human capital]], [[Strong Reciprocity]], [[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''.
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''.
Line 28: Line 28:
==Author==
==Author==
Gintis has been an editor of ''[[Socialist Review (US)|Socialist Review]]''. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books, some of which include:
Gintis has been an editor of ''[[Socialist Review (US)|Socialist Review]]''. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books, some of which include:
* (19??). ''Poverty Economics''. Boston: New England Free Press.
* (1968). ''Poverty Economics''. Boston: New England Free Press.
* (1970). ''Neo-classical welfare economics and individual development''. Cambridge, Mass: Union for Radical Political Economics.
* (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.
* (1971). "Education, Technology, and the Characteristics of Worker Productivity". ''American Economic Review''. 61 (2), 266-279.

Revision as of 20:57, 31 May 2009

Herbert Gintis
Born1940
Philadelphia
NationalityAmerican
Known forAltruism, Cooperation, Epistemic Game Theory, Cooperation, Gene-culture Coevolution, Contested Exchange, Behavioral Game Theory, Generalized Reciprocity, Human capital, Unification of the Behavioral Sciences
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics
InstitutionsProfessor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, 1976-2002
Doctoral advisorArthur Smithies and James Duesenberry
Doctoral studentsJeffrey Carpenter and Christina Fong

Herbert Gintis (born 1940) is an American behavioral scientist, educator, and author. He is notable for his foundational views on Altruism, Cooperation, Epistemic Game Theory, Gene-culture Coevolution, Efficiency wages, Generalized Reciprocity, Human capital, Strong Reciprocity, 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. [1][2]

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.[3]

Lately, Gintis has markedly changed his views on the governments role in the economy based on his empirical observations that Friedrich Hayek's social theory is essentially correct. He has therefore rejected Paul Krugman's socialist agenda: http://www.amazon.com/review/R26YBOD86NQRGB.

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:

  • (1968). 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. Cambridge: 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

  1. ^ "CV Herbert Gintis" (PDF). econ.ceu.hu. Retrieved 2008-09-07. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  2. ^ "Alienation and power towards a radical welfare economics". worldcat.org. Retrieved 2008-09-07. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  3. ^ Arestis, P. (2000). A biographical dictionary of dissenting economists. Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. p. 75. ISBN 1858985609. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

See also


Template:Persondata

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herbert_Gintis&oldid=293582665"