Samuel Bowles (economist)
Samuel Bowles | |
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| Born | January 6, 1939 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Yale University (B.A.) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Influences | Karl Marx, Karl Polanyi |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Economic theory, microeconomics, social psychology |
| School or tradition | Neo-Marxian economics |
| Institutions | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Notable ideas | Schooling in Capitalist America |
Samuel Stebbins Bowles (/boʊlz/; born June 1, 1939), 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. His work belongs to the neo-Marxian (variably called post-Marxian) tradition of economic thought. However, his perspective on economics is eclectic and draws on various schools of thought, including what he and others refer to as post-Walrasian economics.