Bowles on the cover of the _Santa Fe Reporter_

[Aaron Swartz]

I'm back from my fieldwork and ready to tackle Bowles again, only to
find our hero is the cover story of this week's _Santa Fe Reporter_:

http://sfreporter.com/stories/born_poor/5339/all/

> It doesn’t take a genius to see that something is wrong with this equation.
>
> But Samuel Bowles is a genius—or, at least, a certified smart person. Bowles heads the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute, which is home to dozens of big brains imported from all over the world. If he’s right, those troubling job numbers are only the start of New Mexico’s problems.
>
> Indeed, if Bowles is right, the state needs to completely rethink the way it does economic development.

(As you can see, it's a bit Santa Fe-focused...)

I'm also rereading Bowles and GIntis' classic _Schooling in Capitalist
America_ for the book I'm writing. I asked Bowles for one of his more
recent papers on the topic and he sent me back half a dozen -- and
cc'd Gintis. What a sweetheart!

Anyway, I'm hoping to be back with a summary of Chapter 10 by this
weekend. See you then!

[Chris Mealy]

Heya Aaron! I hope your fieldwork went well. As for me, over the winter break I mastered the iphone version of Civilization. Maybe some of our lurkers got caught up with the book.

More on class tomorrow.

[Dennis Peterson]

> Maybe some of our lurkers got caught up with the book.

I wish. I read the first chapter, bought a book on game theory (Game Theory Evolving by Ginnis, for starters), decided I really need to review my long-forgotten math if I want to learn it well, and lined up a stack of math books. Now I'm working through calculus. Damn you all. :)