The ESI Affiliates Program at Chapman

The Economic Science Institute (ESI) at Chapman University is initiating an affiliates program to complement its rich research environment.  Currently, we host workshops every week that are presented by diverse scholars who mesh anthropology, archaeology, genetics, philosophy, accounting and religion with economics.  We are crossing disciplinary boundaries within Chapman and the broader academic community, teaching courses in the Law School, and initiating innovative joint research projects with the Schools of Science and Business, and the departments of philosophy and religion in the College of Humanities.

Our vision is for an active and wide ranging research program with broad participation.  Specifically, we are introducing a program in which all affiliates are active in the core research objectives of ESI.  This means that invited ESI affiliates will be funded to make extended visits to ESI and will have seed research monies available when they come to interact with the growing set of experimental economics researchers who are part of the Argyros Business School and ESI. (In the coming year we will have 11 full time experimental researchers in residence at Chapman and our plan is to expand that number to 15.)

The ESI Affiliates program at Chapman is designed to encourage scholars from diverse backgrounds to examine fundamental issues in the birth and development of economic institutions, as well as to provide market frameworks within which to solve today’s socio-economic problems. More traditional topics of market organization, individual preferences, trust, etc. will also be examined from the experimental viewpoint. ESI affiliates will come from Chapman, the nation and abroad.

Dr. Gregory Waymire, Emory University, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Accounting

Dr. Gerd Gigerenzer, Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Freie Universitat Munchen Professor of Psychology