{"id":92,"date":"2018-11-10T23:52:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T23:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tuvalu.santafe.edu\/~bowles\/new_site\/?page_id=92"},"modified":"2025-11-24T06:05:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T06:05:55","slug":"lectures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.santafe.edu\/~bowles\/index.php\/more\/lectures\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why Economic Inequalities Endure\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; UChicago Harris School of Public Policy (2025)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GG0CP97wCPk\"><strong>The video may be found here.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Origin and Future of Economic Inequality\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; UChicago Harris School of Public Policy (2025)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lV-9-qoSX2o\"><strong>The video may be found here.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Shrinking Capitalism<\/strong> (Bowles and Carlin) &#8211; American Economic Association Meetings (2020)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/webcasts\/2020\/economics-for-inclusive-prosperity\">The video may be found here. Starts at\u00a022.30.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives are No Substitute for Good Citizens<\/strong> &#8211; UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures (2019)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ucsd.tv\/search-details.aspx?showID=34354\"><strong>The video may be found here.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2018 Arrow Lecture:\u00a0<strong>The Moral Economy: Why good incentives are no substitute for good citizens<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vxbBnKrkl8M\">The video may be found here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lecture on teaching\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=5&amp;v=PV8ke0k1pKg\">Capitalism and Democracy<\/a><\/strong> as part of the CORE curriculum at the CORE Virtual Workshop \u2013 University of Bristol, Nov 2018<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WSnuSWmag00\">SFI Community Lecture &#8211; <strong>After Trump and Brexit: A New Economics (Forget Red and Blue)\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; with Wendy Carlin<\/a>, August 2018<\/p>\n<p>Lecture on <strong>Post-Walrasian Microeconomics<\/strong> at the annual meeting of\u00a0Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association in\u00a0 Medellin, Colombia, November 2010 (spanish version) with a comment by Ricardo Hausmann, President (LACEA)<\/p>\n<h4>Castle Lectures<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.santafe.edu\/~bowles\/Castle\/OverviewAbstracts\/Machiavelli.pdf\"><strong>Machiavelli&#8217;s Mistake: Good incentives are no substitute for good citizens.<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYale University presented at Yale University in January 2010<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.santafe.edu\/~bowles\/Castle\/OverviewAbstracts\/Machiavelli.pdf\"><strong>Overview and Abstracts<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafe.edu\/~bowles\/Castle\/BackgroundReadings.htm\"><strong>Background Readings<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Note Lecture III is followed by with critiques and discussions by Professors Bryan Gersten (Political Science), Laurie Santos (Psychology), Phil Gorski (Sociology) and Chris Udry (Economics).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Ulam Lectures<\/h4>\n<p>2008 Stanislaw Ulam Memorial Lecture Series<br \/>\n<b>A Cooperative Species: How We Got to Be Both Nasty and Nice<\/b><br \/>\npresented by Samuel Bowles, Professor, Santa Fe Institute and University of Siena<\/p>\n<p>September 16, 17, and 18, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Humans are remarkably cooperative animals. We frequently engage in joint projects for the common benefit on a scale extending beyond the family to include total strangers. We do this even when contributions to the project are costly and yield little private benefit. Examples are upholding social norms even when a transgression would not be noticed, warfare, and actions to preserve the natural environment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\".santafe.edu\/~bowles\/Lecture1.pdf\"><strong>Lecture 1<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<i>A Cooperative Species (or are we just afraid someone may be looking?)<\/i><br \/>\nSince Darwin, the evolutionary origin of these and other examples of altruistic cooperation has puzzled biologists and economists where notions of &#8216;selfish genes&#8217; and amoral Homo economicus hold sway. Drawing on archaeological, genetic, climatic, and other information about the conditions under which our distant ancestors lived, Bowles will show why standard explanations of human cooperation are inadequate.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BAufcFRgbUI\"><strong>The video may be found here.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/santafe.edu\/~bowles\/Lecture2.pdf\"><strong>Lecture 2<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<i>Altruism, Parochialism, and War: Rambo meets Mother Teresa<\/i><br \/>\nBowles uses computer simulations to generate artificial histories of humanity over tens of thousands of years, tracing alternative trajectories that could explain how we got to be both nasty and nice. The disquieting conclusion will be that war and hostility toward outsiders may have been midwives of our more admirable moral predispositions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UYBFf9ZgkvU\"><strong>The video may be found here<\/strong>.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/santafe.edu\/~bowles\/Lecture3.pdf\"><strong>Lecture 3<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<i>Machiavelli&#8217;s Mistake: Why Policies Designed for \u201cWicked Men\u201d Fail.<\/i><br \/>\nTaking account of our ethical dispositions and the conditions necessary to both enhance and empower cooperative motivations is essential if we are to face the challenges of environmental sustainability, control of epidemic disease, the governance of the information based economy, and political violence.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i8s2HB1cP-k\"><strong>The video may be found here<\/strong>.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Economic Inequalities Endure\u00a0&#8211; UChicago Harris School of Public Policy (2025) The video may be found here. The Origin and Future of Economic Inequality\u00a0&#8211; UChicago Harris School of Public Policy (2025) The video may be found here. 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