Samuel Stebbins Bowles, is an American economist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he continues to teach courses on microeconomics and the theory of institutions. He is presently a Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, where he heads the Behavioral Sciences Program. He is also the founder of CORE, Economics for a Changing World.
His most recent book is The Moral Economy: Why good laws are no substitute for good citizens (Yale University Press, 2016). Other recent books include A Cooperative Species: Human reciprocity and its evolution (with Herbert Gintis, Princeton University Press, 2011), The new economics of inequality and redistribution, (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions and Evolution (Princeton University Press, 2004). He is currently working on Equality’s Moment: The origins and future of economic disparity and political hierarchy.
He has also served as an economic advisor to the governments of Cuba, South Africa and Greece, to U.S presidential candidates Robert F. Kennedy and Jesse Jackson, to the Legislature of the State of New Mexico, to the Congress of South African Trade Unions, and to South African President Nelson Mandela.
Join us this Saturday for our Climate Action Book Club. We’ll discuss A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There, a 1949 non-fiction book by American ecologist, forester, and environmentalist Aldo Leopold. Describing the land around the author's home in Sauk County, Wisconsin, the collection of essays advocate Leopold's idea of a "land ethic" or a responsible relationship existing between people and the land they inhabit. Edited and published by his son, Luna, a year after Leopold's death, the book is considered a landmark in the American conservation movement.
Prior to the book club, we will be in discussion with Dr. Charles Sontag, Emeritus Professor of Biology at the U.W. Manitowoc, whose 50 years of daily observations and documentation of birds is the longest in North America.
Guest: Samuel Bowles, economist, author, & founder of CORE,Economics for a Changing World