Bart Wilson (born 1969) is an
experimental economist. He holds the Donald P. Kennedy Endowed Chair of Economics and Law in the
Chapman University, Argyros School of Business and Economics
Chapman University is a private university, private research university in Orange, California. It encompasses ten schools and colleges, including Fowler School of Engineering, Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, Fowler School of Law, and Sch ...
. He is also the director of the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy and teaches courses in humanomics. His work has been widely published in both the popular and academic press.
Career
Before coming to
Chapman University
Chapman University is a private research university in Orange, California. It encompasses ten schools and colleges, including Fowler School of Engineering, Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, Fowler School of Law, and Schmid College of Scie ...
, Wilson worked at
George Mason University
George Mason University (George Mason, Mason, or GMU) is a public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia with an independent City of Fairfax, Virginia postal address in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. The university was origin ...
. Prior to his academic career, Wilson worked as an economist in the Division of Economic Policy Analysis at the
Federal Trade Commission
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. He is also a guest lecturer at the
Institute for Humane Studies.
Views
Wilson argues that
economists often force "ordinary human behavior to fit their models." For Wilson, this can confuse objective economic analysis.
After research and experimentation Wilson and
Vernon L. Smith
Vernon Lomax Smith (born January 1, 1927) is an American economist and professor of business economics and law at Chapman University. He was formerly a professor of economics at the University of Arizona, professor of economics and law at Georg ...
conclude that "a history of unenforced
property rights hinders our subjects' ability to develop the requisite personal social arrangements to support specialization and effectively exploit impersonal long-distance trade."
Wilson argues that capacity constrained firms have a vested interest in not lowering their prices for new competitive markets.
Education
* B.S.
University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
The University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire (UW–Eau Claire, UWEC or simply Eau Claire) is a public university in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It is part of the University of Wisconsin System and offers bachelor's and master's degrees. UW–Eau Claire ...
* Ph.D.
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory.
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Awards
In 2017, Wilson was awarded with the
Allais Memorial Prize in Behavioral Sciences during the Prague Conference on Behavioral Sciences.
Selected works
* ''Geography and Social Networks in Nascent Distal Exchange''
* ''Social Preferences aren't Preferences''
* ''Exchange and Specialisation as a Discovery Process''
* ''Justice and Fairness in the Dictator Game''
* ''Incremental Approaches to Establishing Trust''
* ''Language Games of Reciprocity''
* ''Experimental Gasoline Markets''
* ''Fixed Revenue Auctions''
* ''Historical Property Rights, Sociality, and the Emergence of Impersonal Exchange in Long-distance Trade''
* ''An Experimental Investigation of Hobbesian Jungles''
* ''Economics Works! Experiments in High School Classrooms''
*''The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind''
References
External links
*
Biography at Chapman University*"Why Behavioral Economics?" - Wilson's speech at Prague Conference on Behavioral Sciences 2017: https://soundcloud.com/cebex/wilson
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University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire alumni
University of Arizona alumni
George Mason University faculty
Chapman University faculty
Living people
1969 births