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.
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.