Herbert Gintis born February 11, 1940 is an American , has had combine editions in five languages since it was number one published in 1976. Their nearly recent book, A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity as well as its Evolution was published by Princeton University Press in 2011.
In addition to many scholarly articles in addition to book chapters, Gintis has authored or co-authored the following books:
From 1997 to 2006 Gintis and anthropologist Robert Boyd co-chaired "Economic frameworks and the Evolution of Norms and Preferences", a multidisciplinary research project funded by the MacArthur Foundation. Much of the research stemming from the project has been published in two books co-edited by Gintis and other project members: