The remarkably busy Herbert Gintis
Posted by Nicholas Gruen on Saturday, June 7, 2008
As I’ve said before, I’m a big admirer of Herbert Gintis - at least as part of the duo of Gintis and Bowles who wrote the marvellous essay “Is equality passe” and has a string of books and great articles to his name.
His project is to develop the implications of what Gintis and Bowles call homo reciprocans, a recasting of homo economicus as a being deeply interested in reciprocation - his own and others - both for good and for bad.
Anyway, Prof Gintis is, I discovered an even busier boy than I thought. He has scads of pages of reviews of books on Amazon. He’s opinionated (mostly but not always in a good way) extremely knowledgeable and it’s a great introduction to an incredible number of the books in the area.
So go check them out.
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He’s also a bloody good game theorist. His textbook on dynamic game theory (from whence his interest in homo reciprocans) is a cracker. He’s a hyperactive polymath.
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