About

BART J. WILSON is a Professor of Economics and Law and the Donald P. Kennedy Endowed Chair in Economics and Law at Chapman University. He is a member of the Economic Science Institute, with joint tenured appointments in the Argyros College of Business and Economics and the Fowler School of Law. In 2016, he co-founded the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy, where he serves as the director.

Bart has published papers widely in economics and general science journals, including the American Economic Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Scientific Reports, and Nature Human Behaviour. His research has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Federal Trade Commission, and the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics. He teaches courses for the Humanomics minor, Chapman’s First-Year Foundations Course, and a law seminar on spontaneous order and the law.

Before joining Chapman, he was an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a Research Scientist at the Economic Science Laboratory, the University of Arizona. He began his career as an Economist at the Federal Trade Commission. Bart holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Arizona and a B.S. in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He hails from the great State of Wisconsin.