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Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: A preference-Based Lucas Critique of ...
Economics Department Working Paper Series (2009)
Samuel Bowles and Sandra Polanía Reyes
Policies and explicit incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical ...
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International Trade, Factor Mobility and the Persistence of Cultural-Institutional Diversity
Economics Department Working Paper Series (2009)
Marianna Belloc and Samuel Bowles
Cultural and institutional differences among nations may result in differences in the ratios of marginal costs of goods in autarchy ...
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Is altruism bad for cooperation?
Economics Department Working Paper Series (2008)
Sung-Ha Hwang and Samuel Bowles
Some philosophers and social scientists have stressed the importance for good government of an altruistic citizenry that values the well ...
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Social Preferences and Public Economics: Mechanism design when social preferences ...
Economics Department Working Paper Series (2008)
Samuel Bowles and Sung-Ha Hwang
Social preferences such as altruism, reciprocity, intrinsic motivation and a desire to uphold ethical norms are essential to good government, ...
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Power
Economics Department Working Paper Series (2007)
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
We consider the exercise of power in competitive markets for goods, labour and credit. We offer a definition of power ...
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Social Segregation and the Dynamics of Group Inequality
Economics Department Working Paper Series (2006)
Samuel Bowles and Rajiv Sethi
We explore the dynamics of group inequality when segregation of social networks places the initially less affluent group at a ...
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Emulation, Inequality, and Work Hours: Was Thorsten Veblen Right?
Economics Department Working Paper Series (2004)
Samuel Bowles and Yongjin Park
We investigate Veblen effects on work hours, namely the way that a desire to emulate the consumption standards of the ...
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Guard Labor: An Essay in Honor of Pranab Bardhan
Economics Department Working Paper Series (2004)
Samuel Bowles and Arjun Jayadev
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Economic Integration, Cultural Standardization, and the Politics of Social Insurance
PERI Working Papers (2003)
Samuel Bowles and Ugo Pagano
Does the freer movement of goods, people, ideas and money across national boundaries mean that, as Charles Kindleberger (1969):207 put ...
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Globalization and Redistribution: Feasible Egalitarianism in a Competitve World
PERI Working Papers (2000)
Samuel Bowles
A reduction of impediments to international flows of goods, capital and professional labor is thought to raise the economic costs ...
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Optimal Parochialism: The Dynamics of Trust and Exclusion in Networks
Economics Department Working Paper Series (2000)
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
Networks such as ethnic credit associations, close-knit residential neighborhoods, ‘old boy’networks, and ethnically linked businesses play an important role in ...
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Risk Aversion, Insurance, and the Efficiency-Equality Tradeoff
Economics Department Working Paper Series (2000)
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
Under conditions of informational asymmetry, redistributing the property rights may improve work incentives but lead to an inefficient choice of ...
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The Determinants of Earnings: Skills, Preferences, and Schooling
Economics Department Working Paper Series (2000)
Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis and Melissa Osborne
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The Evolution of Strong Reciprocity
Economics Department Working Paper Series (2000)
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
A number of outstanding puzzles in economics may be resolved by recognizing that where members of a group benefit from ...
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Walrasian Economics in Retrospect
Economics Department Working Paper Series (2000)
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
Two basic tenets of theWalrasian model, behavior based on self-interested exogenous preferences and complete and costless contracting have recently come ...
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Wealth Inequality, Wealth Constraints and Economic Performance
(1999)
Pranab Bardhan, Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
When asymmetry or non-verifiability of information, or non-excludability of users, makes contracts incomplete or unenforceable, and where for these and ...
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