BOWLES, Samuel

BOWLES, Samuel. American, b. 1939. Genres: Education, Economics. Career: Economist and writer. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, assistant professor of economics, 1965-71, associate professor 1971-74; University of Massachusetts at Amherst, professor of economics, 1974-, chair of Department of Economics, 2000, then professor emeritus; Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, research associate, 2000-; Research Network on Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance, founder and co-director, 1993-. Visiting professor, University of Siena, 1982-. Has worked as a musician, a high school teacher in Nigeria, and a participant in the civil rights movement. Publications: Planning Educational Systems for Economic Growth, 1969; (with others) Notes and Problems in Microeconomic Theory, 1970; (with H. Gintis) Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life, 1976; (with D.M. Gordon and T.E. Weisskopf) Beyond the Waste Land: A Democratic Alternative to Economic Decline, 1983; (with R. Edwards) Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change in the U.S. Economy, 1985; (with H. Gintis) Democracy and Capitalism: Property, Community, and the Contradictions of Modern Social Thought, 1986; (with H. Gintis) Recasting Egalitarianism: New Rules for Communities, States, and Markets, 1989; (with D.M. Gordon and T.E. Weisskopf) After the Waste Land: A Democratic Economics for the Year 2000, 1990; Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution, 2003. EDITOR: (with H.B. Chenery) Studies in Development Planning, 1971; (with R. Edwards and W.G. Shepherd) Unconventional Wisdom: Essays on Economics in Honor of John Kenneth Galbraith, 1989; (with R.Edwards) Radical Political Economy, 1990; (with H. Gintis and B. Gustafsson) Markets and Democracy: Participation, Accountability, and Efficiency, 1993; (with T.E. Weisskopf) D.M. Gordon, Economics and Social Justice: Essays on Power, Labor, and Institutional Change, 1998; (with M. Franzini and U. Pagano), The Politics and Economics of Power, 1999; (with K. Arrow and S. Durlauf) Meritocracy and Economic Inequality, 2000. Contributor to periodicals and journals. Address: Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Rd., Santa Fe, NM 87501, U.S.A. Online address: bowlesassistantsantafe.edu