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Samuel Bowles (economist)

Samuel Bowles
Born (1939-01-06) January 6, 1939 (age 78)
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Nationality American
Institution University of Massachusetts Amherst
Field Economic theory, Microeconomics, Social psychology
School or
tradition
Neo-Marxian economics
Alma mater Harvard University (PhD)
Yale University (B.A.)
Influences Karl Marx, Karl Polanyi
Influenced Herbert Gintis
Duncan K. Foley
Contributions Schooling in Capitalist America

Samuel Stebbins Bowles (/blz/; born January 6, 1939), is an American economist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he continues to teach courses on microeconomics and the theory of institutions. His work belongs to the Neo-Marxian (variably called Post-Marxian) tradition of economic thought; however, his perspective on economics is eclectic and draws on various schools of thought, including what he (and others) refer to as post-Walrasian economics.

Bowles, the son of US Ambassador and Connecticut Governor Chester Bowles, graduated with a B.A. from Yale University in 1960, where he was a founding member of the Yale Russian Chorus, participating in their early tours of the Soviet Union. Subsequently, he received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1965 with thesis titled The Efficient Allocation of Resources in Education: A Planning Model with Applications to Northern Nigeria. In 1973, the Economics Department of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where Bowles taught until 2001, hired him along with Herbert Gintis, Stephen Resnick, Richard D. Wolff and Richard Edwards, as part of a "radical package."

Currently, Bowles is a Professor of Economics at the University of Siena, Italy, and the Arthur Spiegel Research Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Additionally, Bowles continues to teach graduate-level courses in microeconomics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.


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