Samuel Bowles

39.8k citations
195 papers · 20.0k indexed · 17 hit papers · h-index 61

Samuel Bowles

187 papers receiving 17.7k citations

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Greater post-Neol...184198520261998201250010001.5k

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Samuel Bowles
Comparison fields: 5 of 175
  • Safety Research 5.9k
  • General Decision Sciences 767
  • Sociology and Political Science 10.8k
  • Demography 2.6k
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 2.5k
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Samuel Bowles, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1 20240
2 201984
3 201910
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Economists as Servants of Power
20163
5
A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolutionbreakdown →
2011736
6
Le poing invisible
20073
7
Reciprocity, Self-interest, and the Welfare State
2004138
8
The First Property Rights Revolution
20028
9
Creating a new world economy : forces of change & plans for action
19932
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Power and wealth in a competitive capitalist economy
199244
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La economía del despilfarro
19894
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Contested Exchange: Political Economy and Modern Economic Theory
198855
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The Production Process in a Competitive Economy: Reply
19862
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The Production Process in a Competitive Economy: Walrasian, Neo-Hobbesian, and Marxian Modelsbreakdown →
1985416
15
Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change
198510
16
The Welfare State and Long-Term Economic Growth: Marxian, Neoclassical, and Keynesian Approaches
198221
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The Invisible Fist: Have Capitalism and Democracy Reached a Parting of the Ways?
19785
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Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradiction of Economic Life
197737
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The Problem with Human Capital Theory-A Marxian Critique
1975194
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I.Q. in the U.S. Class Structure.
197233

About Samuel Bowles

Samuel Bowles is a scholar working on Safety Research, General Decision Sciences, Demography, Economics and Econometrics and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, having authored 195 papers that have together received 20.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (46 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (30 papers), Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (29 papers), Economic Theory and Institutions (28 papers), Political Economy and Marxism (17 papers), Economic Theory and Policy (14 papers), Economic theories and models (11 papers) and Game Theory and Applications (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Safety Research (5.9k citations), General Decision Sciences (767 citations), Sociology and Political Science (10.8k citations), Demography (2.6k citations) and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (2.5k citations). Samuel Bowles has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Italy and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Herbert Gintis, Robert Boyd, Jung-Kyoo Choi, Ernst Fehr, Joseph Henrich, Richard McElreath, Neil J. Smelser, Richard Swedberg, Peter J. Richerson and Sandra Polanía-Reyes. Their work appears in journals such as American Economic Review, Science, Current Anthropology, Journal of Economic Literature and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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