On Aug 7, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Auguste Blanqui wrote:
> I had to blink a couple times when I saw Samuel Bowles's name in the
> article praising the book. It's indeed the same Samuel Bowles. I
> don't know much about what he did after the height of URPE. Does
> anyone know? Did his views/assumptions change?
Not as much as his former collaborator Herb Gintis. But he definitely moved into the mainstream. He's out at Santa Fe pursuing the mathematization of economics. You can take the boy out of the ruling class, but you can't take the ruling class out of the boy I guess.
How can anyone take seriously a purported evolutionary change that happens over the course of a couple of hundred years? If Ward Chuchill had written something so ridiculous, he'd have gotten fired.
Doug