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List of works by Samuel Bowles

"Economic man" in cross-cultural perspective: behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies

scientific article published in December 2005

Being human: Conflict: Altruism's midwife

scientific article published in November 2008

Business Ascendancy and Economic Impasse: A Structural Retrospective on Conservative Economics, 1979–87

Coevolution of farming and private property during the early Holocene

scientific article published on May 13, 2013

Coordinated punishment of defectors sustains cooperation and can proliferate when rare

scientific article

Correction to: 'Greater wealth inequality, less polygyny: rethinking the polygyny threshold model'

scientific article published on 31 October 2018

Corrigendum: Greater post-Neolithic wealth disparities in Eurasia than in North America and Mesoamerica

scientific article published in Nature

Cultivation of cereals by the first farmers was not more productive than foraging

scientific article published on March 7, 2011

Did warfare among ancestral hunter-gatherers affect the evolution of human social behaviors?

scientific article (publication date: 5 June 2009)

Differences between sons and daughters in the intergenerational transmission of wealth

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Domestication Alone Does Not Lead to Inequality

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GROUP INEQUALITY.

scientific article

Greater post-Neolithic wealth disparities in Eurasia than in North America and Mesoamerica

scientific article published on 15 November 2017

Greater wealth inequality, less polygyny: rethinking the polygyny threshold model

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Group competition, reproductive leveling, and the evolution of human altruism

scientific article

Homo reciprocans

scientific article published in January 2002

In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies

article

Intergenerational Wealth Transmission among Agriculturalists

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Intergenerational wealth transmission and the dynamics of inequality in small-scale societies

scientific article published on October 2009

Production Systems, Inheritance, and Inequality in Premodern Societies

article

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Social Capital And Community Governance*

scholarly article by Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis published November 2002 in The Economic Journal

The Inheritance of Inequality

The co-evolution of individual behaviors and social institutions

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

The coevolution of parochial altruism and war.

scientific article

The evolution of altruistic punishment

scientific article

The evolution of strong reciprocity: cooperation in heterogeneous populations

scientific article

The punishment that sustains cooperation is often coordinated and costly

scientific article published on February 1, 2012

Warriors, Levelers, and the Role of Conflict in Human Social Evolution

scientific article published on May 18, 2012

Wealth Transmission and Inequality among Hunter‐Gatherers

scientific article published on February 1, 2010