Bart Wilson

Bart J. Wilson is the Donald P. Kennedy Endowed Chair in Economics and Law at Chapman University, and the author of 'Meaningful Economics: Making the Science of Prosperity More Human'. He is a founding member of the Economic Science Institute and founding member and Director of the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy.

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Incentives matter! But economics can’t treat humans like robots

As the brilliant Thomas Sowell articulates, economists pride themselves, and rightfully so, on studying ‘the consequences of economic decisions . . . in terms of the incentives they create, rather than simply the goals they pursue. This means that consequences matter more than intentions – and not just the immediate consequences, but also the long […]

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