Details about Herbert Gintis

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Workplace:	Department of Economics, Central European University, (more information at EDIRC) Santa Fe Institute, (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2007

1. Power
   Working Papers, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Economics
   Also in Department of Economics University of Siena, Department of Economics, University of Siena (2007)

2006

2. Mutual Monitoring in Teams: Theory and Experimental Evidence on the Importance of Reciprocity
   Middlebury College Working Paper Series, Middlebury College, Department of Economics View citations
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2006) View citations

2001

3. Cooperation, Reciprocity and Punishment in Fifteen Small-scale Societies
   Working Papers, Santa Fe Institute View citations
4. Economic Man in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Behavioral Experiments in Fifteen Small-Scale Societies
   Working Papers, Santa Fe Institute View citations
5. In Search of Homo Economicus: Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies
   Artefactual Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website View citations
6. Incentive-Enhancing Preferences: Personality, Behavior and Earnings
   Working Papers, Santa Fe Institute View citations
   See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2001)
7. Social Capital and Community Governance
   Working Papers, Santa Fe Institute View citations
   See also Journal Article in Economic Journal (2002)
8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Altruism: Gene-Culture Coevolution, and the Internalization of Norms
   Working Papers, Santa Fe Institute View citations
9. The Inheritance of Economic Status: Education, Class, and Genetics
   Working Papers, Santa Fe Institute View citations
10. The Puzzle of Prosociality
    Working Papers, Santa Fe Institute View citations

2000

11. Costly Signaling and Cooperation
    Working Papers, Santa Fe Institute View citations
12. Risk Aversion, Insurance, and the Efficiency-Equality Tradeoff
    Working Papers, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Economics View citations
13. Strong Reciprocity and Human Sociality
    Working Papers, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Economics View citations
14. The Determinants of Earnings: Skills, Preferences, and Schooling
    Working Papers, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Economics View citations
15. The Evolution of Reciprocal Preferences
    Working Papers, Santa Fe Institute View citations
16. The Evolution of Strong Reciprocity
    Working Papers, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Economics View citations
    Also in Research in Economics, Santa Fe Institute (1998) View citations
17. Walrasian Economics in Retrospect
    Working Papers, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Economics View citations
    See also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2000)

1999

18. Wealth Inequality, Wealth Constraints and Economic Performance
    Center for International and Development Economics Research, Working Paper Series, Center for International and Development Economics Research, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley View citations
    Also in Center for International and Development Economics Research (CIDER) Working Papers, University of California at Berkeley (1998) View citations
    Microeconomics, EconWPA (1998) View citations
    See also Chapter (2000)

1998

19. Mutual Monitoring in Teams: The Effects of Residual Claimancy and Reciprocity
    Research in Economics, Santa Fe Institute View citations

1997

20. A Markov Model of Production, Trade, and Money: Theory and Artificial Life Simulation
    Working Papers, Santa Fe Institute View citations
    Also in Research in Economics, Santa Fe Institute (1997) View citations

1988

21. Contested Exchange: Political Economy and Modern Economic Theory
    Economics Working Papers, University of California at Berkeley View citations
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (1988)

Journal Articles

2009

1. Princeton, 2009. Animal Spirits or Complex Adaptive Dynamics? A Review of George Akerlof and Robert J. Schiller Animal Spirits
   Journal of Economic Psychology, 2009, 30, (3), 511-515
2. Strong reciprocity and team production: Theory and evidence
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2009, 71, (2), 221-232 View citations
3. The local best response criterion: An epistemic approach to equilibrium refinement
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2009, 71, (2), 89-97

2008

4. Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer, Editors, Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field, The MIT Press, Cambridge (2007)
   Journal of Economic Psychology, 2008, 29, (3), 366-368
5. Kenneth G. Binmore, Natural Justice, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2005)
   Journal of Economic Psychology, 2008, 29, (3), 362-365

2007

6. Review 2: Economic Growth and Wellbeing: A Behavioural Analysis
   Economic Journal, 2007, 117, (521), 455-459
7. The Dynamics of General Equilibrium
   Economic Journal, 2007, 117, (523), 1280-1309 View citations
8. The evolution of private property
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2007, 64, (1), 1-16

2006

9. The Emergence of a Price System from Decentralized Bilateral Exchange
   The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2006, contributions.6, (1)

2005

10. Behavioural Motives for Income Redistribution
    Australian Economic Review, 2005, 38, (3), 285-297 View citations

2004

11. Book Review: Lee Alan Dugatkin. 2001. The Imitation Factor: Evolution Beyond the Gene. Simon & Shuster, New York, xvi+256 pp. $25.00
    Journal of Bioeconomics, 2004, 6, (3), 329-331
12. Modeling cooperation among self-interested agents: a critique
    The Journal of Socio-Economics, 2004, 33, (6), 695-714 View citations
13. Persistent parochialism: trust and exclusion in ethnic networks
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2004, 55, (1), 1-23 View citations
14. The genetic side of gene-culture coevolution: internalization of norms and prosocial emotions
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2004, 53, (1), 57-67 View citations

2002

15. Social Capital and Community Governance
    Economic Journal, 2002, 112, (483), 419-436 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2001)
16. The Inheritance of Inequality
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2002, 16, (3), 3-30 View citations

2001

17. Incentive-Enhancing Preferences: Personality, Behavior, and Earnings
    American Economic Review, 2001, 91, (2), 155-158 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2001)
18. The Determinants of Earnings: A Behavioral Approach
    Journal of Economic Literature, 2001, 39, (4), 1137-1176 View citations

2000

19. Beyond Homo economicus: evidence from experimental economics
    Ecological Economics, 2000, 35, (3), 311-322 View citations
20. Reciprocity, Self-Interest and the Welfare State
    Nordic Journal of Political Economy, 2000, 26, 33-53 View citations
21. Walrasian Economics In Retrospect
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000, 115, (4), 1411-1439 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2000)

1993

22. The Revenge of Homo Economicus: Contested Exchange and the Revival of Political Economy
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1993, 7, (1), 83-102 View citations

1989

23. Financial markets and the political structure of the enterprise
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1989, 11, (3), 311-322 View citations

1988

24. Contested Exchange: Political Economy and Modern Economic Theory
    American Economic Review, 1988, 78, (2), 145-50 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1988)

1987

25. Wages, work intensity, and unemployment
    Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 1987, 1, (2), 195-228 View citations

1982

26. The Welfare State and Long-Term Economic Growth: Marxian, Neoclassical, and Keynesian Approaches
    American Economic Review, 1982, 72, (2), 341-45 View citations

1981

27. Labour Heterogeneity and the Labour Theory of Value: A Reply [The Marxian Theory of Value and Heterogeneous Labour: A Critique and Reformulation]
    Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1981, 5, (3), 285-88

1978

28. Professor Morishima on Heterogeneous Labour and Marxian Value Theory
    Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1978, 2, (3), 311-14
29. The Invisible Fist: Have Capitalism and Democracy Reached a Parting of the Ways?
    American Economic Review, 1978, 68, (2), 358-63

1977

30. The Marxian Theory of Value and Heterogeneous Labour: A Critique and Reformulation
    Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1977, 1, (2), 173-92 View citations

1975

31. The Problem with Human Capital Theory-A Marxian Critique
    American Economic Review, 1975, 65, (2), 74-82 View citations
32. Welfare Economics and Individual Development: A Reply to Talcott Parsons
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1975, 89, (2), 291-302 View citations

1974

33. Welfare Criteria with Endogenous Preferences: The Economics of Education
    International Economic Review, 1974, 15, (2), 415-30 View citations

1972

34. A Radical Analysis of Welfare Economics and Individual Development
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1972, 86, (4), 572-99 View citations
35. Consumer Behavior and the Concept of Sovereignty: Explanations of Social Decay
    American Economic Review, 1972, 62, (2), 267-78

1971

36. Education, Technology, and the Characteristics of Worker Productivity
    American Economic Review, 1971, 61, (2), 266-79 View citations

Edited books

2006

1. Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life, vol 1
   MIT Press Books, The MIT Press

Chapters

2008

1. Introduction to Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success
   A chapter in Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success, 2008

2006

2. Strong reciprocity and the welfare state
   Elsevier View citations

2000

3. Wealth inequality, wealth constraints and economic performance
   Chapter 10 in Handbook of Income Distribution, 2000, vol. 1, pp 541-603 View citations
   See also Working Paper (1999)