Herbert Gintis

Herbert Gintis
Congress on Capitalism in the seventies, Tilburg, the Netherlands (1970). Left to right: Ernst Mandel, Herbert Gintis, Bob Rowthorn, Elmar Altvater and organiser Theo van de Klundert
Born	Herbert Malena Gintis (1940-02-11)February 11, 1940 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	January 5, 2023(2023-01-05) (aged 82) Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality (legal)	American
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania (BA) Harvard University (PhD)
Influences	Karl Polanyi, Samuel Bowles, E.O. Wilson
Academic work
Main interests	Economics, behavioral science, sociobiology
Notable works	Schooling in Capitalist America (1976) Democracy and Capitalism (1986) The Bounds of Reason (2009) A Cooperative Species (2011)

Herbert Gintis (February 11, 1940 – January 5, 2023) was an American economist, behavioral scientist, and educator known for his theoretical contributions to sociobiology, especially altruism, cooperation, epistemic game theory, gene-culture coevolution, efficiency wages, strong reciprocity, and human capital theory. Throughout his career, he worked extensively with economist Samuel Bowles. Their landmark book, Schooling in Capitalist America, had multiple editions in five languages since it was first published in 1976. Their book, A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and its Evolution was published by Princeton University Press in 2011.