Bart Wilson (born 1969) is an experimental economist. He holds the Donald P. Kennedy Endowed Chair of Economics and Law in the

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. 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

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, Wilson worked at

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. Prior to his academic career, Wilson worked as an economist in the Division of Economic Policy Analysis at the

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. He is also a guest lecturer at the

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Views

Wilson argues that

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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 who is currently a professor of economics and law at Chapman University. He was formerly the McLellan/Regent's Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona, a professor of ...

conclude that "a history of unenforced

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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.

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* Ph.D.

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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

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Biography at Chapman University
*"Why Behavioral Economics?" - Wilson's speech at Prague Conference on Behavioral Sciences 2017: https://soundcloud.com/cebex/wilson {{DEFAULTSORT:Wilson, Bart University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire alumni University of Arizona alumni George Mason University faculty Chapman University faculty Living people 1969 births