Downloadable Papers
of Herbert Gintis

An Introduction to Sociobiology:
Inclusive Fitness and the Core Genome
April, 2013

Altruistic Reciprocity
Herbert Gintis
Handbook on the Economics of Reciprocity and the Social Enterprise
Edward Elgar
2013

Inclusive Fitness and the Sociobiology of the Genome
January 2013
Under Submission

Understanding Social Networks:
Comments on Dunbar and Baumard
Cliodynamics 2,3 (2012)

The Dynamics of Walrasian General Equilibrium:
Theory and Application
with Antoine Mandel
Complexity Economics, 2013

The Stability of Walrasian General Equilibrium
Under a Replicator Dynamic
with Antoine Mandel
Under Submission, November 2012

Clash of the Titans: A Review of Edward O. Wilson,
The Social Conquest of Earth
BioScience 2012

Stochastic Stability of Walrasian General Equilibrium
with Antoine Mandel
under Submission, Journal of Mathematical Economics
June, 2012

The Evolutionary Roots of Human Hyper-Cognition
Journal of Bioeconomics, 2012

Zoon Politicon: The Evolutionary Roots of Human Sociopolitical Systems
with Carel van Schaik
forthcoming in Peter J. Richerson and Morten H. Christiansen (eds.)
Cultural Evolution
MIT Press

Markov Processes and Social Exchange: Theory and
Applications
ACM Transactions in Intelligent Systems and Technology, January, 2012

The Social Structure of Cooperation and Punishment
with Ernst Fehr
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 35,1 (2012)28--29

Financial Markets and the Political Structure of the Enterprise
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 11 (1989):311--322.

The Future of Behavioral Game Theory
Mind and Society (2011) 10:97--102

The Bounds of Reason: Preface to the Japanese Edition

Hayek's Contribution to a Reconstruction of Economic Theory
Hayek and Behavioral Economics
Macmillan, Palgrave (2013)

Common Knowledge of Rationality is Self-Contradictory

The Dynamics of Pure Market Exchange
in Complexity and Institutions:
Markets, Norms, and Corporations
Masahiko Aoki, Kenneth Binmore, Simon Deakin, and Herbert Gintis (eds.)
Palgrave Macmillan 2012

Strengthening Strong Reciprocity
with Kuiying Deng and Tianguag Chu
Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.09.037
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2010

Coordinated Contingent Punishment is Group-Beneficial and Can Proliferate When Rare
Robert Boyd, Herbert Gintis, and Samuel Bowles,
Science, 328, 617 (2010)

Reflections on Darwinian Liberalism
Cato Unbound, July 21, 2010

Bayesian Rationality, Social Epistemology, and the Choreographer
paper presented at the Rational Choice Seminar,
Department of Economics, University of Chicago

Rationality and its Discontents
Review of Ken Binmore, Rational Decisions,
The Economic Journal 120,542 (February 2010): pp. f162-F180.

Social Norms as Choreography
Politics, Philosophy, and Economics 9,3 (2010): 251-265

Gene-Culture Coevolution and the Nature of Human Sociality
in special issue on Human Niche Construction of the
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

Behavioral Ethics
Edward Slingerland and Mark Collard (eds),
Integrating Science and the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Experimental Economics Will Foster a Renaissance of Economic Theory
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 73,1 (Jan 2010):34--40.

Blaming the Messenger: Notes on the Current State of Experimental Economics
with Catherine Eckel
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 73,1 (Jan 2010):109--119.

Animal Spirits or Complex Dynamics: A Review of Akerlof and Shiller,
 Journal of Economic Psychology (in press)

The Local Best Response Criterion: An Epistemic Approach to Equilibrium Refinement
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 71 (2009):89--97.

Five Principles for the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences


Video Lecture based on Five Principles for the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences


Interview with the Phi Beta Kappa Society

Bayesian Rationality and Common Knowledge
Rationality and Society August, 2010

A Framework for the Integration of the Behavioral Sciences
(with Open Commentaries and Author's Response)
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (2006):1-61

Punishment and Cooperation
Science 7 March 2008

Strong Reciprocity and the Roots of Human Morality
with Joseph Henrich, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd, and Ernst Fehr
Social Justice Research, October 2007

The Dynamics of General Equilibrium
Economic Journal, October 2007

The Emergence of a Price System from Decentralized Bilateral Exchange
B. E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 6,1,13 (2006).

Modeling Cooperation with Self-Regarding Agents
June 2007

Human Nature and Social Cooperation
with Ernst Fehr, Annual Review of Sociology 33,3 (2007):1-22.<

The Evolution of Private Property
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 64,1 (2007):1-16.

Power
with Samuel Bowles, The New Palgrave (2006).

Strong Reciprocity and Human Sociality
Journal of Theoretical Biology 206: 169-179 (2000)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Altruism: Gene-Culture
Coevolution and the Internalization of Norms
Journal of Theoretical Biology 220,4 (2003):407-418

Costly Signaling and Cooperation
[with Eric Alden Smith and Samuel Bowles]
Journal of Theoretical Biology 213(2001):103-119

Strong Reciprocity and Team Production: Theory and Evidence
[with Samuel Bowles, Jeff Carpenter, and Sung-ha Hwang]
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizaation (71):221--232

The Evolution of Strong Reciprocity: Cooperation in Heterogeneous Populations
[with Samuel Bowles]
Theoretical Population Biology 65 (2004):17-28

Corporate Honesty-A Behavioral Model
with Rakesh Khurana, June 2006

Adapting Minds and Evolutionary Psychology January 2006. Journal of Bioeconomics

Subgame Perfection in Evolutionary Dynamics with Recurrent Mutations
with Ross Cressman and Thijs Ruijgrok
in J. Barkley Rosser (ed.), Handbook of Research on Complexity
Edward Elgar, Northampton MA USA (2009): 353--368

Behavioral Ethics Meets Natural Justice
Politics, Philosophy and Economics 5,1 (2006):5-32

Homo Economicus and Zoon Politikon:
Behavioral Game Theory and Political Behavior
with Samuel Bowles, Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis, Forthcoming

The Evolutionary Basis of Collective Action
with Samuel Bowles, Oxford Handbook of Political Economy, Forthcoming

Behavioral Game Theory and Contemporary Economic Theory
Analyse & Kritik 27,1 (2005):6-47

The Origins of Human Cooperation
[with Samuel Bowles]
In Peter Hammerstein (ed.) Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation
MIT Press (2003)

Persistent Parochialism: Trust and Exclusion in Ethnic Networks
[with Samuel Bowles]
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2004)

Cooperation, Reciprocity and Punishment in Fifteen Small-scale Societies
[with Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, and Richard McElreath]
American Economic Review May, 2001.

'Economic Man' in Cross-cultural Perspective: Ethnography and Experiments from 15 Small-scale Societies
[with Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Richard McElreath, Michael Alvard, Abigail Barr, Jean Ensminger, Kim Hill, Francisco Gil-White, Michael Gurven, Frank Marlowe, John Q. Patton, Natalie Smith, and David Tracer]
Forthcoming Behavioral and Brain Science 28 (2005): 795-855.

Solving The Puzzle of Prosociality
Rationality and Society 15,2 (May, 2003):155-187.

Explaining Altruistic Behavior in Humans
[with Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd, and Ernst Fehr]
Evolution & Human Behavior 24 (2003) 153-172.

Intergenerational Inequality
[with Samuel Bowles]
Journal of Economic Perspectives (16,3) Summer, 2002, pp. 3-30.

Schooling in Capitalist America Revisited
[with Samuel Bowles]
Sociology of Education in press.

Personality, Behavior and Earnings
[with Samuel Bowles and Melissa Osborne]
American Economic Review May, 2001.

The Determinants of Individual Earnings: Skills, Preferences, and Schooling
[with Samuel Bowles and Melissa Osborne]
Journal of Economic Literature 39,4 (December, 2001):1137-1176

Walrasian Economics in Retrospect
[with Samuel Bowles]
Quarterly Journal of Economics 115,4 (November, 2000)

The Inheritance of Economic Status: Education, Class and Genetics
[with Samuel Bowles]
Marcus Feldman, ed. Genetics, Behavior and Society,
a volume in Neil Smelser and Paul Baltes, eds.,
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, (Oxford, Elsevier, 2001).

Beyond Homo Economicus: Evidence From Experimental Economics
Ecological Economics 35:3 (December 2000)

Reciprocity and the Welfare State
 [with Samuel Bowles and Christina Fong]
in Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd, and Ernst Fehr,
Moral Sentiments and Material Interests (MIT PRess, 2005)

Wealth Inequality, Wealth Constraints, and Economic Performance
[with Samuel Bowles and Pranab Bardhan]
Handbook of Income Distribution,
François Bourguignon and Anthony Atkinson (eds.), (Dortrecht: North Holland, 2000).

The Nature of the Labor Exchange and the Theory of Capitalist Production
Review of Radical Political Economics 8,2 (1976)

A Radical Analysis of Welfare Economics and Individual Development
Quarterly Journal of Economics 86 November 1972.

Structure and Practice in the Labor Theory of Value
with Samuel Bowles
Review of Radical Political Economics (1981)

Education and the Characteristics of Worker Productivity
American Economic Review, May 1071.