UNTIL RECENTLY, IT was quite common to hear the claim that human nature was fundamentally selfish and disconnected from the common good. The genesis of this idea—at least in modern American times—can ...

Economist Herbert Gintis offers the lecture The Evolution of Morality, describing morality as a result of a dynamic cultural and genetic interplay, at Bates College at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 4, in the ...

Santa Fe Institute Professor Sam Bowles and External Professor Herb Gintis have been selected as 2022 Citation Laureates by Clarivate's Web of Science group "for providing evidence and models that ...

Social scientists have debated for decades the causes and consequences of modernity. Modern democratic societies are associated with strong economic performance as well as numerous ills -- the decay ...

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A debate on the origins and future of egalitarianism, led by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, with responses by Philippe Van Parijs, Robert Haveman, Nancy Folbre, and others. Günter Grass on Turkish ...

HERBERT GINTIS is one of the most consistently interesting economists working today, in large part due to his creatively synthetic yet unfailingly rigorous sensibility. Which is not to say I agree ...

Debate on Robert Richie and Steven Hill’s “The Case for Proportional Representation.” Also: Exchange on genes and culture, with Herbert Gintis and Allen Orr. Essays by Vivian Rothstein on commune life ...

An adviser to US President Barack Obama argues that people's tendency to seek out those with similar views can entrench extreme opinions. But many other forces can fuel outlandish beliefs, says ...