Downloadable Papers of Herbert Gintis

The Local Best Response Criterion:
    An Epistemic Approach to Equilibrium Refinement

in press, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Five Principles for the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences

Bayesian Rationality and Social Norms
Under Submission

A Framework for the Integration of the Behavioral Sciences
(with Open Commentaries and Author's Response)

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (2006):1-61

Punishment and Cooperation
Science 7 March 2008
Benedikt Herrmann, Christian Thöni, and Simon Gächter Paper
Science 7 March 2008

Strong Reciprocity and the Roots of Human Morality
with Joseph Henrich, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd, and Ernst Fehr Social Justice Research, October 2007

The Dynamics of General Equilibrium
Economic Journal, October 2007

The Emergence of a Price System from Decentralized Bilateral Exchange
B. E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 6,1,13 (2006).

Modeling Cooperation with Self-Regarding Agents
Under Submission, June 2007

Human Nature and Social Cooperation
with Ernst Fehr, Annual Review of Sociology 33,3 (2007):1-22.

The Evolution of Private Property
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 64,1 (2007):1-16.

Strong Reciprocity and Human Sociality
Journal of Theoretical Biology 206: 169-179 (2000)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Altruism: Gene-Culture
Coevolution and the Internalization of Norms

Journal of Theoretical Biology 220,4 (2003):407-418

Costly Signaling and Cooperation
[with Eric Alden Smith and Samuel Bowles]
Journal of Theoretical Biology 213(2001):103-119

Mutual Monitoring in Teams: The Effects of Residual Claimancy and Reciprocity
[with Samuel Bowles and Jeff Carpenter]
Under Resubmission

The Evolution of Strong Reciprocity: Cooperation in Heterogeneous Populations
[with Samuel Bowles]
Theoretical Population Biology 65 (2004):17-28

Corporate Honesty-A Behavioral Model
with Rakesh Khurana, June 2006

Adapting Minds and Evolutionary Psychology
January 2006. Journal of Bioeconomics

Subgame Perfection in Evolutionary Dynamics with Recurrent Mutations
with Ross Cressman and Thijs Ruijgrok, July 2005

Behavioral Ethics Meets Natural Justice
Politics, Philosophy and Economics 5,1 (2006):5-32

Homo Economicus and Zoon Politikon:
Behavioral Game Theory and Political Behavior

with Samuel Bowles, Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis, Forthcoming

The Evolutionary Basis of Collective Action
with Samuel Bowles, Oxford Handbook of Political Economy, Forthcoming

Behavioral Game Theory and Contemporary Economic Theory
Analyse & Kritik 27,1 (2005):6-47

The Origins of Human Cooperation
[with Samuel Bowles]
In Peter Hammerstein (ed.) Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation
MIT Press (2003)


Persistent Parochialism: Trust and Exclusion in Ethnic Networks
[with Samuel Bowles]
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2004)

Cooperation, Reciprocity and Punishment in Fifteen Small-scale Societies
[with Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, and Richard McElreath]
American Economic Review May, 2001.


'Economic Man' in Cross-cultural Perspective: Ethnography and Experiments from 15 Small-scale Societies
[with Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Richard McElreath, Michael Alvard, Abigail Barr, Jean Ensminger, Kim Hill, Francisco Gil-White, Michael Gurven, Frank Marlowe, John Q. Patton, Natalie Smith, and David Tracer]
Forthcoming Behavioral and Brain Science 28 (2005): 795-855.


Solving The Puzzle of Prosociality
Rationality and Society 15,2 (May, 2003):155-187.


Explaining Altruistic Behavior in Humans
[with Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd, and Ernst Fehr]
Evolution & Human Behavior 24 (2003) 153-172.


Intergenerational Inequality
[with Samuel Bowles]
Journal of Economic Perspectives (16,3) Summer, 2002, pp. 3-30.


Schooling in Capitalist America Revisited
[with Samuel Bowles]
Sociology of Education in press.


Personality, Behavior and Earnings
[with Samuel Bowles and Melissa Osborne]
American Economic Review May, 2001.


The Determinants of Individual Earnings: Skills, Preferences, and Schooling
[with Samuel Bowles and Melissa Osborne]
Journal of Economic Literature 39,4 (December, 2001):1137-1176


Walrasian Economics in Retrospect
[with Samuel Bowles]
Quarterly Journal of Economics 115,4 (November, 2000)

The Inheritance of Economic Status: Education, Class and Genetics
[with Samuel Bowles]
Marcus Feldman, ed. Genetics, Behavior and Society, a volume in Neil Smelser and Paul Baltes, eds., International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, (Oxford, Elsevier, 2001).


Reciprocity and the Welfare State
[with Samuel Bowles and Christina Fong]
in Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd, and Ernst Fehr, Moral Sentiments and Material Interests (MIT PRess, 2005)


Wealth Inequality, Wealth Constraints, and Economic Performance
[with Samuel Bowles and Pranab Bardhan]
Handbook of Income Distribution, François Bourguignon and Anthony Atkinson (eds.), (Dortrecht: North Holland, 2000).