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Herbert Gintis

Summary

Herbert Gintis (1940–2023) was an American economist known for co-authoring Schooling in Capitalist America with Samuel Bowles and his later work on evolutionary behavioral science and game theory.

Core Contribution

Co-developed the correspondence theory of education; later contributed to evolutionary game theory and behavioral economics.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • education and inequality
  • radical economics
  • behavioral science

Notable Works & Achievements

Schooling in Capitalist America

A Cooperative Species

Historical Influences

Marxist economics Paulo Freire game theory

Intellectual Lineage

Radical economics behavioral economics Harvard

Contemporaries & Peers

Samuel Bowles

Minds Influenced

Critical education theory evolutionary economics

Intellectual Posterity

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