Samuel Bowles directs the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute. He recently published The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens and is one of the authors of The Economy, a free online introduction to economics by the Curriculum Open Access Resources for Economics (CORE) Project. He also blogs at Psychology Today and is the author of Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions and Evolution, and with Herbert Gintis wrote A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
“The disturbing thing scientists learned when they bribed babies with graham crackers” read a Washington Post headline. Ready to be disturbed with the best of them, I read on.