Samuel Bowles
Biography
Samuel Bowles is a Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. He is currently the Research Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute. He is the author of several books including our current text book. For more information see: Bowles Home Page [30].
Contributions
Samuel Bowles has contributed much to evolutionary game theory. His greatest contribution to the ideas of spontaneous order and the evolution of behaviors has been the development of modern evolutionary game theory models like the property rights model in the Hawk Dove Game and the Evolution of Property Rights and the discriminatory housing model in our textbook. These models provide plausible explanations for how certain behaviors and institutions could have developed in an evolutionary manner, and lend credibility to those theories which use these types of explanations.
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