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Brosnan, Sarah F. and Bart Wilson. 2023. “Comparative Economics: How Studying Other Primates Helps US Better Understand the Evolution of Our Own Economic Decision-Making.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 378: 1876.

Hankins, Keith, Ryan Muldoon, and Alex Schaefer. 2023. “Does (Mis)communication Mitigate the Upshot of Diversity?” PLoS One.

McDavid, Brennan and Keith Hankins. 2023. “Adam Smith and the Creative Role of Imagination” in ed. Alberto Burgio, Adam Smith and Modernity. Routledge.

Osborn, Jan, Bart J. Wilson, Mitchell Briggs (Humanomics student), Alison Lee (Humanomics student), and Alec Moss (Humanomics student). 2023. “A Theory of Sociality, Morality, and Monsters: Adam Smith and Mary Shelley,” Adam Smith Review 13: 312-326.

Pickup, Mark, Steven Nuss, Erik O. Kimbrough and Clifton van der Linden. “Countering the Trump Effect in Canada: Strengthening Support for Immigrants using National Identity.” 2023. Politics, Groups and Identities.

Pickup, Mark, Erik O. Kimbrough and Eline de Rooij. "Crossing the Line: Evidence for the Categorization Theory of Spatial Voting." 2023. British Journal of Political Science.

Tate, Christopher, Rajnish Kumar, Jennifer Murray, Sharon Sanchez-Franco, Olga L. Sarmiento, Shannon C. Montgomery, Huiyu Zhou, Abhijit Ramalingam, Erin Krupka, Erik O. Kimbrough, Frank Kee, and Ruth Hunter. 2022. “The Personality and Cognitive Traits Associated with Adolescents’ Sensitivity to Social Norms.” Scientific Reports. 12: 15247.

Thrasher, John and Michael Moehler. 2023. "New Directions in Social Contract Theory." Oxford Univeristy Press.

Wilson, Bart. 2023. “The Primacy of Property; Or, The Subordination of Property Rights.” Journal of Institutional Economics. 19.2: 251-267. The Editor invited 5 published comments on the article.

Wilson, Bart. 2023. “Property Rights Aren’t Primary; Ideas Are.” Journal of Institutional Economics. 19.2: 288-301.

Brosnan, Sarah F. & Wilson, Bart. 2022.” Comparative Economics: How Studying Other Primates Helps US Better Understand the Evolution of Our Own Economic Decision-Making”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Forthcoming.

Farese, Gian M. and Wilson, Bart. 2022.“A Universally Translatable Explication of Adam Smith’s Famous Proposition on ‘The Extent of the Market’”. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 44(3), 393-412

Hankins, Keith, John Thrasher. 2022. “Smithian Sympathy and the Emergence of Norms.” Forthcoming. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Forthcoming.

Kimbrough, Erik and Wilson, Bart. 2022. “Rule- Following”. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, C.M. Melenovsky (ed.), Routledge.

McDavid, Brennan. 2022. “Plato’s Market Optimism”, Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought. 39:3.446-465.

Miharia, A., Osborn, J. & Wilson B. (2022). The symbolic work of prices. The Review of Austrian Economics, 1-15.

Monaghan, Jacob. 2022.”Idealizations and Ideal Policing”, Philosophers’ Imprint. 22:9.

Monaghan, Jacob and Brandon del Pozo. 2022. “E-Cigarettes, the FDS’s Strategic Orientation, and Lessons from the Opioid Crisis”, The American Journal of Bioethics. 22:10. 23-25.

Osborn, Jan M. “General Education for the Future: Eliminating the Liberal Arts/Professional Divide for Intellectual Resilience and Courage.” General Education and Citizen, No. 5, January 2022, pp. 7-27.

Rojo Arjona, David, Stefania Sitzia and Jiwei Zheng. 2022. “Overcoming Coordination Failure in Games with Focal Points: An Experimental Investigation,” Games and Economic Behavior. 136: 505-523.

Shoemaker, David and Bas Van der Vossen. 2022. “Now It’s Personal: From Me to Mine to Property Rights”, Law and Philosophy. Forthcoming.

Tate, Christopher, Rajnish Kumar, Jennifer Murray, Sharon Sanchez-Franco, Olga L. Sarmiento, Shannon C. Montgomery, Huiyu Zhou, Abhijit Ramalingam, Erin Krupka, Erik O. Kimbrough, Frank Kee, and Ruth Hunter. “The Personality and Cognitive Traits Associated with Adolescents’ Sensitivity to Social Norms.” Scientific Reports. 2022. 12: 15247.

Wilson, B. 2022. The primacy of property; or, the subordination of property rights. Journal of Institutional Economics, 1-17.

Wilson, Bart. 2022. “Property Rights Aren’t Primary; Ideas Are”. Journal of Institutional Economics. Forthcoming.

Bhatia, Sudeep and Alessandro Sontuoso. (2021). "A Notion of Prominence for Games with Natural-Language Labels ". Quantitative Economics. 12: 283-312.

Brosnam, Sarah F., Kelly Leverett, Mayte Martinez, Lauren Robinson, Mattea Rossettie, and Bart Wilson. 2021. “Anything for a cheerio: Brown capuchins (Sapajus [Cebus] paella) consistently coordinate in an Assurance Game for unequal payoffs”, American Journal of Primatology. 83:10.

Chowdhury, S., D. Kovenock, D. Rojo Arjona and N. Wilcox. 2021. “Focality and Asymmetry in Multi-Battle Contest.” Economic Journal, 131 (636), 1593-1619.

Hankins, Keith and John Thrasher. 2021. “Hume’s Politics and Four Dimensions of Realism.” The Journal of Politics, forthcoming. Available online at https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3855862

Hankins, Keith and John thrasher. 2021. “Smithian Sympathy and the Emergence of Norms”. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, forthcoming. Available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12833

Hankins, Keith and Peter Vanderschraaf, "Game Theory and Ethics", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), forthcoming. Available online at https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2021/entries/game-ethics

Osborn, Jan, Bart J. Wilson, Mitchell Briggs (Humanomics student), Alison Lee (Humanomics student), and Alec Moss (Humanomics student). “A Theory of Sociality, Morality, and Monsters: Adam Smith and Mary Shelley.” Adam Smith Review 13, Spring 2021.

Smyth, Andrew and Bart J Wilson. (2021). "No Mere Tautology: The Division of Labour is Limited by the Division of Labour". Oxford Economic Papers. 73(1): 371–398.

Van der Vossen, Bas. 2021. “Property, the Environment, and the Lockean Proviso”, Economics and Philosophy 37 (2021): 395 - 412.

Van der Vossen, Bas. 2021. “Consent to Unjust Institutions”. Legal Theory, 1-16.

Wilson, Bart J. and Farese, Gian Marco and Bart Wilson. 2021. “A Universally Translatable Explication of Adam Smith’s Famous Proposition on 'The Extent of the Market”, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, forthcoming. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3682250 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3682250

Deck, Cary and Bart J. Wilson (2020). "Auctions in Near-Continuous Time," Experimental Economics. 23, 110-126.

Gjesdal, Adam and Jonathan M. Weinberg. (2020). "Aesthetic Debunking and the Transcendental Argument of the Novel.” Aesthetic Investigations. 1(4): 36-53.

Pickup, Mark, Erik O. Kimbrough, and Eline de Rooij. (2020). "Identity and the Self-Reinforcing Effect of Norm Compliance.” Southern Economic Journal. 86(3): 1222-1240

Rojo Arjona, D. (2020). “Focal Points in Laboratory Experiments.” In: Vernengo M., Caldentey E., Rosser Jr B. (eds) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_3090-1.

Thrasher, John (2020). “On Minimal Morality.” Analytic Philosophy. 61(1): 46-56.

Thrasher, John (2020). “Agreeing to Disagree: Diversity, Political Contractualism, and the Open Society.” Journal of Politics. 82(3): 1142-1155.

Akbari, Masha, Duman Bahrami-Rad, and Erik O. Kimbrough. (2019). “Kinship, Fractionalization and Corruption.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.166: 493-528.

Charness, Gary, Michael Naef, and Alessandro Sontuoso. (2019). "Opportunistic conformism." Journal of Economic Theory. 180: 100-134.

Handfield, Toby and John Thrasher. (2019). “Two of a Kind: Are Norms of Honor a Species of Morality?” Biology & Philosophy. 34:39.

Hajikhameneh, Aidin and Erik O. Kimbrough. (2019). “Individualism, Collectivism and Trade.” 2019. Experimental Economics. 22(2): 294-324.

Kimbrough, E.O., Sheremeta, R.M. (2019). "Theories of Conflict and War". Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 159 (C), 384-387.

McDavid, Brennan (2019). “On Why the City of Pigs and Clocks are Not Just.” Journal of the History of Philosophy. 57(4): 571-593.

Smith, M.F., Leverett, K.L., Wilson, B.J., Brosnan, S.F. (2019). "Capuchin monkeys (Sapajus [Cebus] apella) play Nash equilibria in dynamic games, but their decisions are likely not influenced by oxytocin". American Journal of Primatology. 81:e22973.

Thrasher, John.(2019). “Self-Ownership as Personal Sovereignty." Social Philosophy & Policy. 36(2): 116-133.

Thrasher, John. (2019). “Democracy Unchained: Contractualism, Individualism, and Independence in Buchanan’s Democratic Theory.” Homo Oeconomicus. 36: 25-40.

Thrasher, John. (2019). “Constructivism, Representation, and Stability: Path-Dependence in Public Reason Theories of Justice.” Synthese. 196(1): 429:450.

van der Vossen, Bas (2019). “Libertarianism”. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.Edward N. Zalta (ed.)

Fatas, Enrique, Shaun Hargreaves- Heap, and David Rojo-Arjona (2018). "Preference Conformism: An Experiment". European Economic Review, 105: 71-82.

Kaplan, Hillard S., Eric Schniter, Vernon L. Smith, and Bart J. Wilson (2018). "Experimental Tests of the Tolerated Theft and Risk-Reduction Theories of Resource Exchange", Nature Human Behaviour, 2(6): 383–388.

Thrasher, John and Toby Handflied. 2018. “Honor and Violence: An Account of Feuds, Duels, and Honor Killings.” Human Nature 29(4).

Thrasher John, and Kevin Vallier. 2018. “Political Stability in the Open Society.” American Journal of Political Science. 62(2):398-409.

Thrasher, John. 2018. “Evaluating Bad Norms.” Social Philosophy & Policy. 35(1).

Brennan, Jason, Bas Van der Vossen, and David Schmidtz (Eds.). (2018). "The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism". New York, NY: Routledge Press.

Kaplan, Hillard S., Eric Schniter, Vernon L. Smith, and Bart J. Wilson (2018). “Experimental Tests of the Tolerated Theft and Risk-Reduction Theories of Resource Exchange,” Nature Human Behaviour, 2(6): 383–388.

Freeman, David, Erik O. Kimbrough, Garrett Petersen, and Hanh Tong. “Instructions.” 2018. Journal of the Economic Science Association. 4(2): 165-179.

Wilson, B. J. (2018). On Private Governance. Review of Austrian Economics, 31(2), 231-234

Kaplan, H., Schniter, E., Smith, V., Wilson, B. (2018) "Experimental tests of the tolerated theft and risk-reduction theories of resource exchange," Nature Human Behavior, 2, 383-388.

Smith, V., Wilson, B. (2018) "Equilibrium play in voluntary ultimatum games: Beneficence cannot be extorted," Games and Economic Behavior, 109, 452-464

Osborn, Jan, Bart J. Wilson and Gus P. Gradinger (2017). Commerce Unbound: A Modern Promethean Story. Annual Proceedings of the Wealth and Well-being of Nations, 9: 57-72. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2859643

Gaus, Jerry and Keith Hankins (2017). Searching for the Ideal: The Fundamental Diversity Dilemma. In K. Vallier and M. Weber (Eds.), Political Utopias (pp. 175-201). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Kimbrough, Erik O., Nikolaus Robalino and Arthur J. Robson (2017). Applying 'Theory of Mind': Theory and Experiments. Games and Economic Behavior, 106: 209-226. doi:10.1016/j.geb.2017.10.008

Deck, Cary A. and Erik O. Kimbrough (2017). Experimenting with Contests for Experimentation. Southern Economic Journal, 84(2): 391-406.

Tesón, Fernando and Bas Van der Vossen (2017). Debating Humanitarian Intervention: Should We Try to Save Strangers? New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Smith, Vernon L. and Bart J. Wilson (2017). Sentiments, Conduct, and Trust in the Laboratory. Social Philosophy and Policy, 34(1): 25-55.

Wilson, B. J. (2017). How we think about economics. Southern Economic Journal, 83(3), 655-657

Wilson, Bart J. and Samuel R. Harris (2017). Language and Cooperation in Hominin Scavenging. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38(3): 376-396.

Kimbrough, Erik O., Kevin Laughren and Roman M. Sheremeta. 2017. “War and Conflict in Economics: Theories, Applications, and Recent Trends.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. In Press.

Kimbrough, E., Smyth, A. (2017). "Testing the boundaries of the double auction: The effects of complete information and market power," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Hankins, Keith (2016). Adam Smith's Intriguing Solution to the Problem of Moral Luck. Ethics, 126 (3): 711 - 746.

Kimbrough, Erik O. and Alexander Vostroknutov (2016). Norms Make Preferences Social. Journal of the European Economic Association, 14(3): 608-638.

Jaworski, Taylor A. and Erik O. Kimbrough (2016). Bubbles, Crashes and Endogenous Uncertainty in Linked Asset and Product Markets. International Economic Review, 57(1): 155-176.

Smith, Vernon L. (2016). Adam Smith and Experimental Economics: Sentiments to Wealth. In R. Hanley (Ed.), Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy (pp. 262-280). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Thrasher, John (2016). The Ethics of Legislative Vote Trading. Political Studies, 64(3): 614-629.

Van der Vossen, Bas (2016). Uncertain Rights Against Defense. Social Philosophy and Policy, 32: 129-145.

Van der Vossen, Bas (2016). Self-Determination and Moral Variation. In F. Tesón (Ed.), The Theory of Self-Determination (ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory, pp. 13-31). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781316340639.002

Hankins, Keith and John Thrasher (2015). When Justice Demands Inequality. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 12 (2): 172 – 194.

Hankins, Keith (2015). (Dissertation) Embracing Moral Luck: Accidents, Apologies, and the Foundations of Social Cooperation.

Osborn, Jan, Bart J. Wilson and Bradley R. Sherwood (2015). Conduct in Narrativized Trust Games. Southern Economic Journal, 81(3): 562-597.

Osborn, Jan (2015). Community Colleges and First-Generation Students: Academic Discourse in the Writing Classroom. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Smith, Vernon (2015). Discovery Processes, Science, and 'Knowledge-how:' Competition as a Discovery Procedure in the Laboratory. The Review of Austrian Economics, 28(3): 237-245.

Smith, Vernon (2015). Adam Smith: Homo Socialis, Yes; Social Preferences, No; Reciprocity Was to Be Explained. Review of Behavioral Economics, 2(1-2): 183-193.

Smith, Vernon (2015). Conduct, Rules and the Origins of Institutions. Journal of Institutional Economics, 11(3): 481-483.

Thrasher, John and Kevin Vallier (2015). The Fragility of Consensus: Public Reason, Stability, and Diversity. The European Journal of Philosophy, 23(4): 933-954.

Van der Vossen, Bas (2015). Imposing Duties and Original Appropriation. Journal of Political Philosophy, 23: 64-85.

Wilson, Bart J. (2015). Humankind in Civilization's Extended Order: A Tragedy, The First Part. Supreme Court Economic Review, 23(1): 35-58.

Wilson, B.J. (2015). "Further towards a theory of the emergence of property," Public Choice 163: 201

Kimbrough, E. and Rubin, J. (2015). “Sustaining Group Reputation,” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 31(3): 599-628

Kimbrough, E., Rubin, J., Sheremeta, R., and Shields, T. (2015). “Commitment Problems in Conflict Resolution,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 112: pp. 33-45

Smith, V.L. (2015). "Conduct, rules and the origins of institutions," Journal of Institutional Economics, Vol. 11, Issue 03, pp 481-483.

Smith, V.L. (2015). "Adam Smith: Homo Socialis, Yes; Social Preferences, No; Reciprocity Was to Be Explained", Review of Behavioral Economics: Vol. 2: No. 1-2, pp 183-193