Bart J. Wilson

Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy

Professor of Economics and Law

One University Drive

Orange, CA 92866

United States

http://www.bartjwilson.com

Chapman University - Economic Science Institute (ESI)

Professor, Economics and Law

One University Drive

Orange, CA 92866

United States

Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law

Professor of Economics and Law

One University Drive

Orange, CA 92866-1099

United States

http://www.bartjwilson.com

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Scholarly Papers (41)

1.

An Experimental Analysis of the Demand for Payday Loans

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 15 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2010
Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy, Colby College, Colby College, Independent and University of Virginia
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Payday Loans, Experimental Economics

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The Meaning of Property in Things

'The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind,' Oxford University Press, 2020. Available here: https://www.amazon.com/Property-Species-Mine-Yours-Human/dp/0190936797.
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 11 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2020
Bart J. Wilson
Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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property, chattels, semantics, cognition of property, property rights, experimental economics

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A Theory of Sociality, Morality, and Monsters: Adam Smith and Mary Shelley

Adam Smith Review 13, Spring 2021
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 08 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2020
Chapman University, Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy, Chapman University - The George L. Argyros College of Business and Economics, Chapman University - The George L. Argyros College of Business and Economics and Chapman University - The George L. Argyros College of Business and Economics
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Adam Smith, Mary Shelley, Fellow-Feeling, Sociality, Monster, Frankenstein, Moral Sentiments

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Building a Market: From Personal to Impersonal Exchange

Free Enterprise: Values in Action Conference Series, 2005-2006, MORAL MARKETS: THE CRITICAL ROLE OF VALUES IN THE ECONOMY, Paul J. Zak, ed., Princeton University Press, 2007
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 14 Sep 2006
Erik O. Kimbrough, Vernon L. Smith and Bart J. Wilson
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros College of Business and Economics, Chapman University - Economic Science Institute and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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The Primacy of Property; Or, The Subordination of Property Rights

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 10 Nov 2021
Bart J. Wilson
Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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property, property rights, material cause, efficient cause, formal cause, final cause

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The Welfare Effects of Civil Forfeiture

Review of Behavioral Economics, 4(2), September 2017, pp. 153-179. doi: 10.1561/105.00000063
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 08 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2018
Michael Preciado and Bart J. Wilson
Snell & Wilmer LLP and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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civil asset forfeiture, experimental economics

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Historical Property Rights, Sociality, and the Emergence of Impersonal Exchange in Long-Distance Trade

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 18 Sep 2006
Erik O. Kimbrough, Vernon L. Smith and Bart J. Wilson
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros College of Business and Economics, Chapman University - Economic Science Institute and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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personal exchange, impersonal exchange, long-distance trade, experimental economics

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The Clash of Aristocratic and Bourgeois Virtues in 'The Wire'

In 'Teaching 'The Wire:' Frameworks, Theories and Strategies for the Classroom,' Tia Gaynor and Jocelyn Taliaferro (Eds.), Mcfarland & Co, 2016
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 19 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 08 May 2017
Gus Gradinger and Bart J. Wilson
Chapman University and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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inner city, underdevelopment, virtue ethics, The Wire

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Equilibrium Play in Voluntary Ultimatum Games: Beneficence Cannot Be Extorted

Games and Economic Behavior, 109, May 2018, pp. 452-464.
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 29 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2018
Vernon L. Smith and Bart J. Wilson
Chapman University - Economic Science Institute and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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ultimatum games, voluntary play, Adam Smith, experimental economics

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'Sentiments,' Conduct, and Trust in the Laboratory

Forthcoming, Social Philosophy and Policy 34, 2017
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 05 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 08 May 2017
Vernon L. Smith and Bart J. Wilson
Chapman University - Economic Science Institute and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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Adam Smith, experimental economics, trust, conduct, beneficence, justice

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Exchange and Specialization as a Discovery Process

The Economic Journal, Vol. 119, pp. 1162-1188, 2009
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 14 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2019
Sean Crockett, Vernon L. Smith and Bart J. Wilson
Chapman University, Chapman University - Economic Science Institute and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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specialization, exchange and production economies, experimental economics

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Language and Cooperation in Hominin Scavenging

Evolution and Human Behavior 38(3), 376-396, 2017.
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 15 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 08 May 2017
Bart J. Wilson and Samuel Harris
Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy and Chapman University - The George L. Argyros College of Business and Economics
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language, cooperation, scavenging, experimental economics

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Humankind in Civilization's Extended Order: A Tragedy, The First Part

Supreme Court Economic Review, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2015
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 23 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 08 May 2017
Bart J. Wilson
Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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biological anthropology, envy, evolutionary moral rules, exchange

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Experimental Gasoline Markets

FTC Bureau of Economics Working Paper No. 263
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 27 Oct 2003
Cary A. Deck and Bart J. Wilson
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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gasoline industry, zone pricing, vertical integration, asymmetric price adjustment, experimental economics

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What Did Adam Smith Mean? The Semantics of the Opening Key Principles in the 'Wealth of Nations'

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 24 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2021
Bart J. Wilson and Gian Marco Farese
Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Natural Semantic Metalanguage, principles of economics

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The Bourgeois Virtues in 'Deadwood': Challenging American Ideology

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 10 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2021
Chapman University, Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy, Chapman University, Chapman University and Chapman University
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bourgeois virtues, commerce, Deadwood, David Milch, ideology

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A Simple, Ecologically Rational Rule for Settling Found Property Disputes

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 178, October 2020, 660-671.
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 26 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2020
Bart J. Wilson
Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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property, property rights, lost property, experimental economics

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Rule-following

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 05 May 2021
Erik O. Kimbrough and Bart J. Wilson
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros College of Business and Economics and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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rule-following, rules, norms

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Economics at the Pump

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 28 May 2004
Cary A. Deck and Bart J. Wilson
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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Gas prices, gasoline prices, price gouging, anti-gouging, regulation, market manipulation, price changes, gasoline markets, price asymmetries, lags, market allocations

20.

The Meaning of 'Deceive' in Experimental Economic Science

The Oxford Handbook of Professional Economic Ethics, George DeMartino and Deirdre McCloskey (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2016.
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 17 May 2015 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2021
Bart J. Wilson
Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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experimental economics, deception

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A Universally Translatable Explication of Adam Smith’s Famous Proposition on 'The Extent of the Market'

Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 44(3), September 2022, 393-412.
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 10 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 10 May 2023
Bart J. Wilson and Gian Marco Farese
Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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Adam Smith, division of labor, the market, lexical semantics, natural semantic metalanguage

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How We Think About Economics

Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 83, No. 3, 2017
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 08 May 2017
Bart J. Wilson
Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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Vernon Smith, experimental economics, methodology

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Commerce Unbound: A Modern Promethean Story

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 09 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 08 May 2017
Jan Osborn, Bart J. Wilson and Gus Gradinger
Chapman University, Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy and Chapman University
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Bourgeois Ethics, Commerce, Prometheus Unbound, Percy Shelley

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On 'Private Governance'

Review of Austrian Economics, 2017
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 08 May 2017
Bart J. Wilson
Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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private governance, legal centralism, anarchism, morality

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Promoting Experimental Economics in the Classroom

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 09 Mar 2007
Stephen Jackstadt, Paul R. Johnson and Bart J. Wilson
University of Alaska Anchorage - Center for Economic Education, University of Alaska Anchorage - Department of Economics and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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An Experimental Analysis of the Effects of Automated Mitigation Procedures on Investment and Prices in Wholesale Electricity Markets

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 01 Jun 2005
L. Lynne Kiesling and Bart J. Wilson
Northwestern University and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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electric power markets, automated mitigation procedures, investment

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Humanomics and Human Action Explanations of Why Human Beings Divide Their Labor

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 29 Aug 2022
Bart J. Wilson
Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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division of labor, humanomics, human action, Adam Smith, Ludwig von Mises, Paul Samuelson

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The Symbolic Work of Prices

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 07 Jun 2022
Akash Miharia, Jan Osborn and Bart J. Wilson
Chapman University, Chapman University and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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price, word, language, sign, concept, symbolic thought

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Property Rights Aren’t Primary; Ideas Are

Journal of Institutional Economics, Forthcoming.
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 20 Oct 2022
Bart J. Wilson
Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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property, property rights, mind, ideas

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No Mere Tautology: The Division of Labor is Limited by the Division of Labor

Oxford Economic Papers, 73(1), January 2021, pp. 371-398.
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 11 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2021
Andrew Smyth and Bart J. Wilson
Boise State University - Department of Economics and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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growth theory, theory of the firm, experimental economics, specialization, increasing returns, transaction costs

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Territory in the State of Nature

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 04 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2024
Jordan Adamson and Bart J. Wilson
Leipzig University, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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conflict, territory, hominin

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The Ecological and Civil Mainsprings of Property: An Experimental Economic History of Whalers’ Rules of Capture

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 30 Mar 2010
Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy, Queen's University, University of Virginia and Boise State University - Department of Economics
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property rights, endogenous rules, whaling, experimental economics

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Horizontal Product Differentiation in Auctions and Multilateral Negotiations

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 29 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2012
Charles J. Thomas and Bart J. Wilson
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros College of Business and Economics and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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voluntary exchange, multilateral negotiations, auctions, product differentiation

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The Conceptual Semantics of 'Money' and 'Exchangeable Value of Goods' in Adam Smith’s 'Wealth of Nations'

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 22 May 2023
Gian Marco Farese and Bart J. Wilson
Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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Adam Smith, money, value, cognitive semantics, English discourse, economics

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On Explaining Why the (Human) World Is Rich

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 27 Sep 2024 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2024
Bart J. Wilson
Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy
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world GDP, Industrial Revolution, technological progress, economic growth

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Risk and the Evolution of Human Exchange

Proceedings of the Royal Society, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2614
Posted: 27 Apr 2012
University of New Mexico - Program in Interdisciplinary, Center for the Study of Human Nature - CSUF, Chapman University - Economic Science Institute and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy

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cooperation, exchange, hunter–gatherers, risk, evolution

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An Experiment on Protecting Intellectual Property

Gruter Institute Squaw Valley Conference: Law, Institutions & Human Behavior, 2011
Posted: 24 May 2011
Bart J. Wilson
Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy

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A Comparative Approach to Coordination: How Apes, Monkeys and Humans Respond to an Assurance Game with Equivalent Procedures

Gruter Institute Squaw Valley Conference: Law, Institutions & Human Behavior, 2011
Posted: 24 May 2011
Sarah F. Brosnan and Bart J. Wilson
Georgia State University and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy

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Contra Private Fairness

Posted: 31 May 2007 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2009
Bart J. Wilson
Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy

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semantics of economics, rhetoric of economics, fairness

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A Comparison of Auctions and Multilateral Negotiations

Posted: 11 Feb 2002
Charles J. Thomas and Bart J. Wilson
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros College of Business and Economics and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy

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Firm-Specific Cost Savings and Market Power

Posted: 10 Oct 2000
Douglas D. Davis and Bart J. Wilson
Virginia Commonwealth University - School of Business - Department of Economics and Chapman University - Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy

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