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Bart Wilson
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Professor of Economics and Law, Chapman University | Author of Meaningful Economics, The Property Species, and Humanomics https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0197758150

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Bart Wilson 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. 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. .. more

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Bart Wilson @bartwilson.bsky.social · 27d
We never see “anti-self” or “self-sacrificial” models in economics because they’d break the discipline’s moral boundary, namely that every act, however generous, must still fit inside the logic of self-interested utility.

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Bart Wilson @bartwilson.bsky.social · 27d
Economists love the term “prosocial.” It sounds generous, but notice we never say “self-sacrificing.” The word smuggles in an optimism that helping others can be good for them without ever really being bad for you.

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Bart Wilson @bartwilson.bsky.social · Sep 30
"Wilson wants economists to reject narrow cause-and-effect arguments because they obscure human purpose and meaning behind action."

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Book Review: Meaningful Economics: Making the Science of Prosperity More Human, Bart J. Wilson
When economists analyze human conduct exclusively in terms of scarcity, they ignore the complexity of the human mind. In the twentieth century, economists
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Bart Wilson @bartwilson.bsky.social · Sep 10
Here's the link:
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Constrained Optimization or Observation? On What Economists Take as Primary
Economists differ on what they take as primary when constructing the problem of a rational economic order: constrained optimization or observation. The general
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Bart Wilson @bartwilson.bsky.social · Sep 10
I’ve written a short essay on the philosophy of economic science, titled “Constrained Optimization or Observation? On What Economists Take as Primary.” This is just a beginning, and I’m keen to hear counterpoints as I continue down this path.

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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · Jan 15
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On whether Economists should read Marx, and Adam S. HT @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social. With shout outs to Vernon L. Smith and a number of others.
On whether Economists should read Marx, and Adam S.
When I was a PhD student, I got invited to a Summer program at GMU and over the years got to know James (‘Jim’) Buchanan (and, lest we forget, Gordon Tullock) on a first name basis.
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Bart Wilson @bartwilson.bsky.social · Jun 11
Great Strunk!

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