Podcast appearances and mentions of Bart J Wilson

Michael Huemer makes the case that governments have no legitimate authority.Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on Twitter.Today's book: Is Political Authority an Illusion? (Little Debates about Big Questions)Michael Huemer's recommendation: The Problem of Political AuthorityOther books by HuemerMike's web presence: Fake Noûs Blog, Personal Website, University WebsiteOther discussed books: The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind by Bart J. Wilson, and The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel

How did the concept of property arise in human society and is this a uniquely human attribute? On this episode, Prof. Bart J. Wilson discussed his book, The Property Species.

On Friday's "Connecticut Today" with Paul Pacelli, Paul chatted with University of Toronto Professor Emeritus Bart J. Wilson about his new book, "The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind" (8:28). With President Joe Biden visiting Connecticut, we heard from several listeners, as well as former Bridgeport Mayor Mary Moran, about their experiences meeting past, present and future presidents (0:30). Image Credit: Reuters

Bart J. Wilson on The Property Species

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m PayPal Subscription 20 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y95uvkao This show is sponsored by Enlites, Learning & Development done differently. Check the website here: http://enlites.com/ Dr. Bart J. Wilson is the Donald P. Kennedy Endowed Chair in Economics and Law at Chapman University. He is a founding member of the Economic Science Institute and founding member and Director of the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy. His research uses experimental economics to explore the foundations of exchange and specialization and the origins of property. Another of his research programs compares decision making in humans, apes, and monkeys. He is the author of The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind. In this episode, we focus on The Property Species, and talk about Dr. Wilson's work on this subject more broadly. We first discuss property from an evolutionary perspective, and the endowment effect. We ask if property is a human universal. We then talk about sharing, exchange, trade, and specialization. We discuss some features of the human mind that play a role in how we think about property, like abstract thinking, language, and morality. Dr. Wilson explains the difference between property and property rights. We also talk about intellectual property, and what we can learn about human sociality (focusing on how people cooperate) by studying how people think about property. Finally, we ask if anarchy could ever work, why social preferences are not preferences, and some thoughts on the so-called “sharing economy”. -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS/SUPPORTERS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, PER HELGE LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, JERRY MULLER, HANS FREDRIK SUNDE, BERNARDO SEIXAS, HERBERT GINTIS, RUTGER VOS, RICARDO VLADIMIRO, BO WINEGARD, CRAIG HEALY, OLAF ALEX, PHILIP KURIAN, JONATHAN VISSER, ANJAN KATTA, JAKOB KLINKBY, ADAM KESSEL, MATTHEW WHITINGBIRD, ARNAUD WOLFF, TIM HOLLOSY, HENRIK AHLENIUS, JOHN CONNORS, PAULINA BARREN, FILIP FORS CONNOLLY, DAN DEMETRIOU, ROBERT WINDHAGER, RUI INACIO, ARTHUR KOH, ZOOP, MARCO NEVES, MAX BEILBY, COLIN HOLBROOK, SUSAN PINKER, THOMAS TRUMBLE, PABLO SANTURBANO, SIMON COLUMBUS, PHIL KAVANAGH, JORGE ESPINHA, CORY CLARK, MARK BLYTH, ROBERTO INGUANZO, MIKKEL STORMYR, ERIC NEURMANN, SAMUEL ANDREEFF, FRANCIS FORDE, TIAGO NUNES, BERNARD HUGUENEY, ALEXANDER DANNBAUER, OMARI HICKSON, PHYLICIA STEVENS, FERGAL CUSSEN, YEVHEN BODRENKO, HAL HERZOG, NUNO MACHADO, DON ROSS, JOÃO ALVES DA SILVA, JONATHAN LEIBRANT, JOÃO LINHARES, OZLEM BULUT, NATHAN NGUYEN, STANTON T, SAMUEL CORREA, ERIK HAINES, MARK SMITH, J.W., JOÃO EIRA, TOM HUMMEL, SARDUS FRANCE, DAVID SLOAN WILSON, YACILA DEZA-ARAUJO, IDAN SOLON, ROMAIN ROCH, DMITRY GRIGORYEV, TOM ROTH, DIEGO LONDOÑO CORREA, YANICK PUNTER, ADANER USMANI, CHARLOTTE BLEASE, MIRAN B, NICOLE BARBARO, ADAM HUNT, PAWEL OSTASZEWSKI, MAX BEILBY, AL ORTIZ, NELLEKE BAK, KATHRINE AND PATRICK TOBIN, GUY MADISON, GARY G HELLMANN, AND SAIMA AFZAL! A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY PRODUCERS, YZAR WEHBE, JIM FRANK, ŁUKASZ STAFINIAK, IAN GILLIGAN, SERGIU CODREANU, LUIS CAYETANO, TOM VANEGDOM, CURTIS DIXON, BENEDIKT MUELLER, VEGA GIDEY, AND NIRUBAN BALACHANDRAN! AND TO MY EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS, MICHAL RUSIECKI, ROSEY, JAMES PRATT, AND MATTHEW LAVENDER!

Bart J. Wilson explores how humans acquire, perceive, and know the custom of property, and why this might be relevant to understanding how property works in the twenty-first century.What is experimental economics? How does property work? What chaos ensues when property rights do not exist? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In his new book The Property Species, Chapman University law professor Bart Wilson offers a strikingly original look at the origin and meaning of private property. Unlike scholars who argue that property is a “social construct,” Wilson argues that property is a deeply and uniquely human practice. Incorporating insights from history, linguistics, law, and his own laboratory experiments, Wilson illuminates the means by which our ideas of private property originate and gain their moral and legal force. In this conversation with Goldwater Institute’s Timothy Sandefur, our Teleforum will examine how the institution of private property marks human beings as “the property species.”Featuring:-- Professor Bart J. Wilson, Director of the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy at Chapman University and author of The Property Species-- Moderator: Timothy Sandefur, Vice President for Litigation, Goldwater Institute

Jimena Hurtado habla de un tema que se ha venido planteando sobre la unión entre economía experimental, con las ideas de Adam Smith, que están relacionadas con la obra Humanomics de Vernon L. Smith y Bart J. Wilson quienes han descubierto puntos de encuentro y sorprendentes resultados sobre las supuestas predicciones del modelo económico tradicional. Expresa Jimena que para dichos autores, Adam Smith tiene una idea mucho más rica del ser humano que no encaja con una flexibilización de las funciones de utilidad, pues aseguran que sus ideas superan a la economía experimental y que esos resultados se han visto a través de los juegos que revelan cuestiones que no se pueden explicar a través de la teoría, con el pensamiento del agente económico racional. Con base en esos resultados explica Jimena que la economía experimental comenzó a incorporar otro tipo de preferencias dentro de la función de utilidad que no se habían considerado anteriormente, entre las que se mencionan las preferencias sociales, altruistas, familiares y otras. "Entonces, es a través de ese proceso de flexibilización y de ampliación del mismo problema de optimización, que empezaron a decir, así podemos explicar que la gente no acepte lo que la teoría económica originalmente dice que ellos deberían estar aceptando”. Siguiendo esa misma línea de pensamiento, alude a planteamientos de Adam Smith acerca de los humanos que no se comportan de otra manera, porque son seres sociales, pertenecen a una sociedad, se han formado en ella y construido una identidad a través de interacciones que posteriormente se fueron transformando en comunidades que son reflejo de esos vínculos. "El poder de verse los unos con los otros de manera permanente es lo que empiezan a incorporar Smith y Wilson”. Explica además, que en la segunda parte de Humanomics, los experimentos evidencian resultados más satisfactorios que pueden ser mejor explicados a partir de La teoría de los sentimientos morales, contrarios a los que aporta la economía tradicional, además de sus planteamientos sobre reglas de comportamiento, en particular de justicia porque permiten el funcionamiento de la sociedad. "Entre Adam Smith y la economía experimental pasó algo que se llama el utilitarismo”. También, menciona críticas, comentarios y aportes que ya había hecho Jeremy Bentham sobre incorporar en la economía el comportamiento individual, y su idea sobre la filosofía que sentó las bases de la legislación, de las leyes y el orden social, entre otros. "Lo interesante de este libro es que nos permite preguntarnos sobre las tradiciones que nos llevan a la teoría económica contemporánea, el utilitarismo el maximizador de utilidad, y ese ser sociable de Adam Smith que vive bajo reglas que él mismo se ha impuesto”. Te invitamos a conocer estas ideas sobre economía experimental y el pensamiento de Adam Smith quien tuvo una visión que va más allá de la economía tradicional.