1960年毕业于耶鲁大学，获学士学位；1965年毕业于哈佛大学，获经济学博士学位。1965～1974年，在哈佛大学任助教、副教授。1974至今任马萨诸塞大学Amherst分校教授（终身教职）。2000年担任Santa Fe（圣菲，美国新墨西哥州首府）研究所经济项目主任、科学指导委员会委员、外院委员（External Faculty，外院由来自不同领域的专家组成。Santa Fe研究所在挑选外院委员时，主要根据他们的学术成就，影响力以及对边缘学科的研究兴趣。）。从2003年7月起任该研究所的Arthur Spiegel讲座教授和行为科学项目的合作者。1993一直到现在，Bowles是McArthur基金会不平等和经济表现研究网的创始人和合作主任。2003年，他开始出任Siena大学经济学院教授。
Bowles教授的研究集中在两个领域：第一个关注偏好（preferences）、习惯（institions）和行为（behavior）的共同发展，着重对以下问题设计理论模型和进行实证研究：文化演进、行为解释中的无意识动机的作用和发展、在如知识产权等政策领域运用这些研究成果、教育经济学和政府再分配项目的政治学。包括基于代理人的模型和他称之为“产权革命”（property rights revolutions） 的其他研究。第二个研究方向是在着眼财富不平等，不完全契约和管理公司、市场、家庭和社区经济交易之间关系的基础上，研究经济不平等的起因和后果。包括以下最新的研究对象：竞争性交易中权力的使用和滥用、财富不平等导致的资源配置无效、相互监督和共同生产的经济学以及全球化和再分配之间的关系。
荣誉：
1980－1981：获John Simon Guggenheim奖学金（John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship）；
1983：获美－德Marshall基金奖学金（Fellowship of the German Marshall Fund of the United States）；
1984年7月：作为威廉-富布赖特访问学者访问京都大学（University of Kyoto）和同志社大学（Doshisha University）；
1988年：作为福特访问学者访问加州大学伯克利分校；
1993年：再次作为威廉-富布赖特访问学者访问Siena大学；
1999：所著《在资本主义的美国教书》（Schooling in Capitalist America)入选“世纪教育图书博物馆”。
电子邮件：bowles@santafe.edu
主 页：http//www.santafe.edu/~bowles/
主要作品：
"The Efficient Allocation of Resources in Education," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 81, No. 2. (May, 1967):189-219 (winner of the Goldsmith Prize).
"The Determinants of Scholastic Achievement: An Appraisal of Some Recent Evidence," Journal of Human Resources, (Winter 1968) (with Henry M.Levin).
Planning Educational Systems for Economic Growth, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1969.
"Migration as Investment: Empirical Tests of the Human Investment Approach to Geographical Mobility," Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. LII, No. 4, (November 1970):356-362.
"The Aggregation of Labor Inputs in the Study of Growth and Planning: Experiments with a Two-Level CES Function," Journal of Political Economy, 78,1 (January/February 1970):68-81.
"Schooling and Inequality from Generation to Generation," Journal of Political Economy, (May/June 1972):S219-S251.
"The `Inheritance of IQ' and the Intergenerational Reproduction of Economic Inequality," Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. LVI, No. 1, (February 1974):39-51 (with Valerie Nelson).
“The Problem With Human Capital Theory,” American Economic Review 65,2 (May 1975):74-82. Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life (Basic Books, N.Y., 1976, with Herbert Gintis).
"Capitalist Development and Educational Structure," World Development, 6(April 1978):783-796. Notes and Problems in Microeconomic Theory, (North Holland Texts in Mathematical Economics, 1980, with David Kendrick and (revised second edition) Peter Dixon).
"Technical Change and the Profit Rate: A Simple Proof of the Okishio Theorem,"
“The Welfare State and Long-Term Economic Growth: Marxian, Neoclassical, and Keynesian Approaches,” American Economic Review, 72, 2 (May 1982):341- 345.
“Long Swings and the Non-reproductive Cycle,” American Economic Review, 73(2) ((May 1983):152-157 "Hearts and Minds: A Social Model of U.S. Productivity Growth," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2:(1983):381-450 (with Thomas Weisskopf and David Gordon).
"Long-Term Growth and the Cyclical Restoration of Profitability," in Michael Kruger, Richard Goodwin, and Alessandro Vercelli, eds, Nonlinear Models of Fluctuating Growth, (Berlin: Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 1984):86-102 (with David Gordon and Thomas Weisskopf).
"The Production Process in a Competitive Economy: Walrasian, Marxian, and Neo-Hobbesian Models," American Economic Review, 76,1, (March, 1985):16-36. Democracy and Capitalism: Property, Community, and the Contradictions of Modern Social Thought, (New York: Basic Books, 1986, with Herbert Gintis).
"The Cost of Job Loss and the Incidence of Strikes," Review of Economics and Statistics, LXIX, 4 (November, 1987):584-592 (with Juliet Schor).
"Social Institutions and Technical Change," in M. DeMatteo, A. Vercelli and R. Goodwin, eds, Technological and Social Factors in Long Term Economic Fluctuations, (Berlin, Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 1986):67-88.
"Labor Discipline and Aggregate Demand: A Macroeconomic Model," American Economic Review, 78, 2 (May, 1988):395-400 (with Robert Boyer).
"Contested Exchange: Political Economy and Modern Economic Theory," in American Economic Review, 78, 2 (May, 1988), 145-150 (with Herbert Gintis).
"Business Ascendancy and Economic Impasse: A Structural Retrospective on Conservative Economics, 1979-1986," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 3,1, (Winter 1989):107-134 (with David Gordon and Thomas Weisskopf).
"Power and Wealth in a Competitive Capitalist Economy," Philosophy and Public Affairs 21,4(Fall, 1992):324-353 (with Herbert Gintis).
"The Revenge of Homo economicus: Post-Walrasian Economics and the Revival of Political Economy," Journal of Economic Perspectives 7,1(Winter, 1993):83-102 (with Herbert Gintis).
"The Moral Economy of Communities: Structured Populations and the Evolution of Pro-social Norms," Evolution and Human Behavior 19,1 (January, 1998):3-25 (with Herbert Gintis).
"Endogenous Preferences: The Cultural Consequences of Markets and other Economic Institutions" Journal of Economic Literature XXXVI (March, 1998):75-111.
"Is Equality Passé? The Evolution of Reciprocity and the Future of Egalitarian Politics" Boston Review (Fall, 1998):4-10 (with Herbert Gintis).Recasting Egalitarianism: New Rules for Markets, Communities and States (London,Verso, 1999, with Herbert Gintis.)
“Reciprocity, Self interest and the Welfare State” Nordic Journal of Political Economy 26,1(January, 2000) (with Herbert Gintis).
"Wealth Inequality, Wealth Constraints and Economic Performance," in A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Handbook of Income Distribution, (Amsterdam, North Holland, 2000, with Pranab Bardhan and Herbert Gintis).
“Walrasian Economics in Retrospect,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, (November, 2000):1411-1439 (with Herbert Gintis).
“Economic Institutions as Ecological Niches,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23,1(February, 2000)Meritocracy and Economic Inequality (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2000, coedited with Kenneth Arrow and Steven Durlauf.)
“Individual Interactions, Group Conflicts, and the Evolution of Preferences,” in Steven Durlauf and Peyton Young, eds., Social Dynamics (MIT Press, 2001):155-190.
“The Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status: Education, Class, and Genetics,” in Marcus Feldman, ed., Genetics, Behavior and Society, Volume 6 pp 4132-4141, in Neil Smelser and Paul Baltes, eds., International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Oxford, Elsevier, 2001) (with Herbert Gintis.)
“In Search of Homo economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Simple Societies” American Economic Review. 91,2(May, 2001):73-78 (with R.Boyd, C. Camerer, E.Fehr, H. Gintis, J. Henrich, and R. McElreath).
“Incentive enhancing preferences” American Economic Review, 91,2(May 2001):155- 158 (with Herbert Gintis and Melissa Osborne).
“Costly Signaling and Cooperation,” Journal of Theoretical Biology, 213(2001):103- 119 (with Herbert Gintis and Eric Smith).
“Individual Behavior and Social Interactions” Sociological Methodology, 31 (2001):89-96.
“The Inheritance of Inequality” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16,3(Summer, 2002):1-28 (with Herbert Gintis).
"The Determinants of Individual Earnings: A Behavioral Approach,” Journal of Economic Literature XXXIX(December, 2001): 1136-1176 (with Herbert Gintis and Melissa Osborne)
“Globalization and Redistribution: Feasible Egalitarianism in a Competitive World” in Richard Freeman, ed., Inequality around the world( London, Palgrave, 2002):230-263.
“Homo reciprocans,” Nature, January 10, 2002: pp 125-128 ( with Herbert Gintis).
“‘Social Capital’ and Community Governance,” Economic Journal, 112(483) (November, 2002):F419-436 (with Herbert Gintis).
“Explaining Altruistic Behavior in Humans” Evolution and Human Behavior, 24(2003):153-172 (co- authored with Gintis, Robert Boyd and Ernst Fehr). Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from 15 small-scale societies.(co-authored and co-edited with Joe Henrich, Robert Boyd, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis, 2004, Oxford University Press)
“The co-evolution of individual behaviors and social institutions” Journal of Theoretical Biology, 223(2):135-147. (2002, with Jung-Kyoo Choi and Astrid Hopfensitz).
“The evolution of altruistic punishment,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 100(6) (March 18, 2003):3531-3535 (with Robert Boyd, Herbert Gintis, and Peter Richerson).
“Does Market Theory Apply to Biology” in Peter Hammerstein, ed., Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation, MIT Press 2003, pp 153-165 (with Peter Hammerstein).
“The origins of human cooperation” in Peter Hammerstein, ed., Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation, MIT Press, 2003, pp. 430-443. (with Herbert Gintis).
“Reciprocity, Self-interest, and the Politics of Redistribution” to appear in S..-C.Kolm, et.al., eds, The Handbook on the Economics of Giving, Reciprocity and Altruism, Elsevier, 2004 (with Christina Fong and Herbert Gintis)Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution, Princeton University Press,2004.Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success, co-edited with HerbertGintis and Melissa Osborne, Princeton University Press and Russell Sage Foundation, 2004 Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life, Cambridge, MIT Press, 2004 (co-authored and co-edited with Robert Boyd, Ernst Fehr and Herbert Gintis)
“Institutional Poverty Traps” in Poverty Traps co-edited with Steven Durlauf and Karla Hoff. (2004, Russell Sage Foundation)
“Pro-social emotions,” (with H.Gintis, to appear in The Economy as a Complex Evolving System III: Essays in Honor of Kenneth Arrow, L.Blume and S.Durlauf, eds. 2004.)
“Persistent Parochialism: the Dynamics of Trust and Exclusion in Networks,” forthcoming in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (with H.Gintis)
“The evolution of strong reciprocity: cooperation in heterogeneous populations” Theoretical Population Biology, 65(2004):17-28.Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change. Oxford UniversityPress (3rd revised edition, 2005 with Frank Roosevelt and Richard Edwards).
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