Los Angeles: “The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind”

15010 La Mirada Boulevard,La Mirada CA 90638

14 July, 2021

Description

Please join AIER’s Bastiat Society program in Los Angeles for an in-person event with Professor Bart J. Wilson. Please join AIER’s Bastiat Society program in Los Angeles for an in-person event with Professor Bart J. Wilson. We will kick off our Summer Series with a discussion on property rights. Why do humans seek to privately own objects, buildings, and land? Have our conceptions of ownership changed through time? And most importantly, how does the idea of ownership impact how we understand and treat others?  _____________________ More about the speaker: Bart J. Wilson is the Donald P. Kennedy Chair in Economics and Law at Chapman University. His research uses experimental economics to explore the origins of property and the human propensity to truck, barter, and exchange. He also studies how Adam Smith’s ideas in The Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations can inform the modern study of economics and our interpretation of economic experiments. Another of his research programs compares social decision-making in humans, apes, and monkeys. He is the author of The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind, published by Oxford University Press, and co-author of Humanomics: Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century, published by Cambridge University Press. AIER’s Bastiat Society program is a global network of business professionals committed to advancing free trade, individual freedom, and responsible governance. Our chapters host over 200 lectures, discussions, seminars, workshops, and conferences in over 20 countries each year.