Herbert Gintis and the Societal Origins of Preferences: A Personal Memoir

Samuel Bowles

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2024, vol. 56, issue 1, 146-151

Abstract: In this personal memoir of my lifelong collaborator and friend, Herb Gintis, I reflect on his “A Radical Analysis of Welfare Economics and Individual Development.†Published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics in 1972, the article advances a novel Marx-inspired interpretation of the societal origins of preferences, one that profoundly influenced the ideas of a group of like-minded young economists at Harvard at the time, economics more broadly, and Herb and my subsequent joint work. JEL Classification: B14, B21, D01

Keywords: endogenous preferences; Talcott Parsons; Karl Marx (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1177/04866134231222289

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