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Bart J. Wilson holds the Donald P. Kennedy Endowed Chair in Economics and Law at Chapman University, with joint appointments in the Dale E. Fowler School of Law and The George L. Argyros College of Business and Economics. He is founding Director of the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy and co-founded the Economic Science Institute.
His academic credentials include a Bachelor of Science from University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and Master of Arts/Ph.D. from University of Arizona.
Wilson pioneers experimental investigations into property rights emergence, human economic behavior, and cross-species decision-making. His research integrates experimental economics with philosophy, biology, and law to examine how spontaneous order shapes property institutions and market exchange. Key themes include Adam Smith's moral philosophy, civil asset forfeiture implications, and biological foundations of property.
His recent publications reveal strong interdisciplinary convergence, blending experimental methods with evolutionary biology and philosophical inquiry. Work spans theoretical analyses of Adam Smith, virtual-world property experiments, and primate behavioral studies, consistently focusing on how humans develop cooperative exchange systems.
- Oliver E. Williamson prize for best article
Wilson's research is supported by National Science Foundation and Federal Trade Commission grants, producing influential work in top journals including American Economic Review and Nature Human Behaviour. His books The Property Species and Humanomics redefine economic science through humanistic lenses.
He leads the Economic Science Institute and Smith Institute, fostering experimental research on political economy and philosophical foundations of exchange, while directing virtual-world experiments on property emergence and cross-species economic behavior.
