Samuel Bowles is an American economist at the Santa Fe Institute known for his radical political economy critiques of capitalism, particularly Schooling in Capitalist America (with Herbert Gintis), arguing that schools reproduce class inequality.
Co-developed the correspondence theory arguing that schools reproduce class inequality by mirroring capitalist workplace hierarchy; major work in radical political economy.
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