Capitalism, Conflict, and Cooperation: In Honor of Herbert Gintis

Herbert Gintis made fundamental contributions to so many areas. Herb is missed by fellow economists, biologists, and behavioral scientists. His students, colleagues, and friends miss a very thoughtful and brilliant human being who “spent a lifetime of scholarly passion against injustice and untruth, challenging the old and creating new ways of doing the many sciences of human behavior.” He influenced the careers of many of us.


This Research Topic would be a small expression of our respect for and gratitude to Herb for his many lasting contributions. The contributions would range over a large number of research areas, including:


- Power and Political Economy

- Class, Conflict, and Culture

- Endogenous Preferences and Political Economy

- Inequality

- Preferences

- Evolutionary game theory

- Gene-culture evolution

- Agent-based modeling, cooperation, altruism and social norms

- Political economy and evolution of institutions

- Democracy and capitalism

- Morality and sociality



The articles would commemorate Herb’s research. They would be recent papers drawn from areas related to Herbert’s published work. We expect to have something approximating a representative sample of work from (some of) the problems he studied.

Keywords: capitalism, behavior, conflict, cooperation, herbert gintis, political economy, culture, inequality, democracy

Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.