If you miss the live version, catch our public lectures on YouTube. In our latest video lecture, Professor Herbert Gintis of the Santa Fe Institute speaks about Rational Choice and Political Behaviour.

About the Speaker

Herbert Gintis is an American economistbehavioral scientist, and educator known for his theoretical contributions to sociobiology, especially altruism,  cooperation, epistemic game theorygene-culture coevolutionefficiency wagesstrong reciprocity, and human capital theory. Throughout his career, he has worked extensively with economist Samuel Bowles. Their landmark book, Schooling in Capitalist America, has had multiple editions in five languages since it was first published in 1976. Their most recent book, A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and its Evolution was published by Princeton University Press in 2011.

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