{"id":7075,"date":"2025-05-13T10:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T17:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/business\/2025\/05\/13\/esis-bart-wilson-publishes-a-new-book\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T06:40:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:40:42","slug":"esis-bart-wilson-publishes-a-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/business\/2025\/05\/13\/esis-bart-wilson-publishes-a-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"ESI's Bart Wilson's New Book: Putting Purpose and Human Values Back Into Economic Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

Economic Science Institute’s<\/a> Professor Bart Wilson<\/a> has published a book entitled, Meaningful Economics.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Meaningful<\/p>\n

In Meaningful Economics<\/em>, Bart Wilson challenges economics to directly engage human beings as we really are, not as economists ideally assume.\u00a0 Wilson argues that economic science is as much about purposes and human values as it is about incentives. Moreover, he develops a framework to illustrate how the outcomes of our decisions\u2014their costs and benefits\u2014and the origins of our decisions\u2014our motives and goals\u2014can be understood in an integrated way. He then demonstrates how three basic principles of economics\u2014trade, specialization, and property\u2014require meaning, values, and purpose. With a fresh perspective and a novel theoretical framework that bridges economics and ethics, Meaningful Economics<\/em>\u00a0explains the roots of human conduct and its economic effects by grounding a science of economics in the moral sentiments\u00a0that prompt human beings to act.<\/p>\n

Meaningful Economics: Making the Science of Prosperity More Human<\/em> features:<\/p>\n

\"Bart<\/p>\n