Samuel Bowles
Impact in
- Safety Research top 0.01%
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- General Decision Sciences top 0.2%
Papers in
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- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies 57
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- Economic Theory and Institutions 33
- Co-authors
- Herbert M. Gintis (88 shared papers)Robert T. Boyd (16 shared papers)Ernst Fehr (11 shared papers)Jung-Kyoo Choi (6 shared papers)Joseph Henrich (8 shared papers)Colin F. Camerer (6 shared papers)Neil J. Smelser (1 shared paper)Richard Swedberg (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- American Economic Review (11 papers)Science (8 papers)Journal of Economic Literature (7 papers)Current Anthropology (7 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (6 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesItalyUnited Kingdom
In The Last Decade
Samuel Bowles
236 papers receiving 19.9k citations
Samuel Bowles's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 181
- Safety Research 6.6k
- General Decision Sciences 854
- Sociology and Political Science 12.6k
- Demography 3.0k
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 3.0k
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Co-authors
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.
All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies Hit paper breakdown → | 2001 | 1607 |
| 2 | “Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies Hit paper breakdown → | 2005 | 1228 |
| 3 | The evolution of altruistic punishment Hit paper breakdown → | 2003 | 1207 |
| 4 | The Handbook of Economic Sociology. Hit paper breakdown → | 1995 | 1023 |
| 5 | Foundations of Human Sociality Hit paper breakdown → | 2004 | 916 |
| 6 | A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 804 |
| 7 | The Coevolution of Parochial Altruism and War Hit paper breakdown → | 2007 | 765 |
| 8 | Explaining altruistic behavior in humans Hit paper breakdown → | 2003 | 706 |
| 9 | The Determinants of Earnings: A Behavioral Approach Hit paper breakdown → | 2001 | 675 |
| 10 | 2001 | 602 | |
| 11 | 2002 | 523 | |
| 12 | Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: Substitutes or Complements? Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 520 |
| 13 | Did Warfare Among Ancestral Hunter-Gatherers Affect the Evolution of Human Social Behaviors? Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 509 |
| 14 | Policies Designed for Self-Interested Citizens May Undermine "The Moral Sentiments": Evidence from Economic Experiments Hit paper breakdown → | 2008 | 502 |
| 15 | 2003 | 471 | |
| 16 | The Production Process in a Competitive Economy: Walrasian, Neo-Hobbesian, and Marxian Models Hit paper breakdown → | 1985 | 470 |
| 17 | 2003 | 456 | |
| 18 | Coordinated Punishment of Defectors Sustains Cooperation and Can Proliferate When Rare Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 451 |
| 19 | 2006 | 440 | |
| 20 | Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and the Dynamics of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 369 |
About Samuel Bowles
Samuel Bowles is a scholar working on Safety Research, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Demography and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, having authored 256 papers that have together received 23.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (57 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (39 papers), Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (35 papers), Economic Theory and Institutions (33 papers), Political Economy and Marxism (23 papers), Economic Theory and Policy (19 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (14 papers) and Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Safety Research (6.6k citations), General Decision Sciences (854 citations), Sociology and Political Science (12.6k citations), Demography (3.0k citations) and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (3.0k citations). Samuel Bowles has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Italy and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Herbert M. Gintis, Robert T. Boyd, Ernst Fehr, Jung-Kyoo Choi, Joseph Henrich, Colin F. Camerer, Neil J. Smelser, Richard Swedberg, Richard L. McElreath and Peter J. Richerson. Their work appears in journals such as American Economic Review, Science, Journal of Economic Literature, Current Anthropology and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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