Jonathan B Wight
Biographic Data
| ID | 962287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan B Wight |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan B |
| FAMILY NAME | Wight |
| SIGNATURE | WIGHT J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Richmond |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6075-8380 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ethical Pluralism in Economics
Traditional approaches to understanding morality, through evaluating outcomes, analyzing rules, principles, and duty, and adhering to notions of virtue and character, offer competing but also complementary ways of framing conduct in a social setting. Ethical pluralism is the claim that all three methods are, to some degree, useful to positive economics because each provides distinctive insights into human behavior. Each is also useful in normativ…
Economics within a Pluralist Ethical Tradition
Ethical pluralism is the recognition that multiple ethical frameworks operate in social settings to solve problems of moral hazard. In particular, non-consequentialist considerations of duty and virtue operate to restrain self-interest and lower transaction costs in exchange, such as when asymmetric information exists. Positive economics has tended to rely exclusively on a behavioral model that assumes utility maximization, but this approach fail…
Sentiments and Motivations in Adam Smith and Vernon Smith
Vernon Smith (VS) discovered Adam Smith (AS) late in his professional career, and has adopted ideas from The Theory of Moral Sentiments to explain findings in experimental economics. Most important is the theorized link between moral sentiments and the evolution of property rights and law as foundations for commerce. VS's encounter with AS, while not new, provides a compelling look at the modern laboratory of social science through the lens of th…
Sociability and the Market
This paper addresses two classroom activities for exploring sociability and the role it plays in market and non-market allocations. Adam Smith’s moral sentiments theory provides a conceptual framework for understanding such behavior. In the Desert Island activity students have conversations about competing allocation methods (e.g., rationing, lottery, competition, brute force) that provide a backdrop for learning about market mechanisms and behav…
Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective on Markets, Law, Ethics, and Culture
Adam Smith on Instincts, Affection, and Informal Learning: Proximate Mechanisms in Multilevel Selection
Why do people give away knowledge in tutoring other people's children or when mentoring junior employees? Neoclassical economists explain informal learning as rational behavior that arises out of enlightened self-interest. They can also justify it as acts that satisfy the agent's preferences for the utility of others. By contrast, this paper shows that Smith's moral sentiments model anticipates a biological approach that explains additional and d…
Adam Smith's Ethics and the “Noble Arts” 1
Adam Smith's character-based ethical system lays the foundation for his vision of the social and economic good. Within this system, the arts perform a critical role. Smith's essays “Of the Imitative Arts” and his Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres are useful companions to The Theory of Moral Sentiments in analyzing the mechanisms whereby literature and the arts excite moral development. The arts stretch the boundaries of imagination and pers…
The Rise of Adam Smith: Articles and Citations, 1970-1997
Research Article| March 01 2002 The Rise of Adam Smith: Articles and Citations, 1970-1997 Jonathan B. Wight Jonathan B. Wight Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2002) 34 (1): 55–82. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-34-1-55 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jonathan B. Wight; The Rise of Adam Smith: Articles and Citations, 1970-199…
Risk adjustment and hospital cost-based resource allocation, with an application to El Salvador
International Finance and Latin America. Stephany Griffith-Jones
The Efficiency of Producing Alcohol for Energy in Brazil: Comment
The Rise of Adam Smith: Articles and Citations, 1970-1997
Research Article| March 01 2002 The Rise of Adam Smith: Articles and Citations, 1970-1997 Jonathan B. Wight Jonathan B. Wight Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2002) 34 (1): 55–82. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-34-1-55 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jonathan B. Wight; The Rise of Adam Smith: Articles and Citations, 1970-199…
Adam Smith on Instincts, Affection, and Informal Learning: Proximate Mechanisms in Multilevel Selection
Why do people give away knowledge in tutoring other people's children or when mentoring junior employees? Neoclassical economists explain informal learning as rational behavior that arises out of enlightened self-interest. They can also justify it as acts that satisfy the agent's preferences for the utility of others. By contrast, this paper shows that Smith's moral sentiments model anticipates a biological approach that explains additional and d…
Economics within a Pluralist Ethical Tradition
Ethical pluralism is the recognition that multiple ethical frameworks operate in social settings to solve problems of moral hazard. In particular, non-consequentialist considerations of duty and virtue operate to restrain self-interest and lower transaction costs in exchange, such as when asymmetric information exists. Positive economics has tended to rely exclusively on a behavioral model that assumes utility maximization, but this approach fail…
Adam Smith's Ethics and the “Noble Arts” 1
Adam Smith's character-based ethical system lays the foundation for his vision of the social and economic good. Within this system, the arts perform a critical role. Smith's essays “Of the Imitative Arts” and his Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres are useful companions to The Theory of Moral Sentiments in analyzing the mechanisms whereby literature and the arts excite moral development. The arts stretch the boundaries of imagination and pers…
The Efficiency of Producing Alcohol for Energy in Brazil: Comment
International Finance and Latin America. Stephany Griffith-Jones
Risk adjustment and hospital cost-based resource allocation, with an application to El Salvador
The Rise of Adam Smith: Articles and Citations, 1970-1997
Research Article| March 01 2002 The Rise of Adam Smith: Articles and Citations, 1970-1997 Jonathan B. Wight Jonathan B. Wight Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2002) 34 (1): 55–82. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-34-1-55 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jonathan B. Wight; The Rise of Adam Smith: Articles and Citations, 1970-199…
Adam Smith's Ethics and the “Noble Arts” 1
Adam Smith's character-based ethical system lays the foundation for his vision of the social and economic good. Within this system, the arts perform a critical role. Smith's essays “Of the Imitative Arts” and his Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres are useful companions to The Theory of Moral Sentiments in analyzing the mechanisms whereby literature and the arts excite moral development. The arts stretch the boundaries of imagination and pers…
Sociability and the Market
This paper addresses two classroom activities for exploring sociability and the role it plays in market and non-market allocations. Adam Smith’s moral sentiments theory provides a conceptual framework for understanding such behavior. In the Desert Island activity students have conversations about competing allocation methods (e.g., rationing, lottery, competition, brute force) that provide a backdrop for learning about market mechanisms and behav…
Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective on Markets, Law, Ethics, and Culture
Adam Smith on Instincts, Affection, and Informal Learning: Proximate Mechanisms in Multilevel Selection
Why do people give away knowledge in tutoring other people's children or when mentoring junior employees? Neoclassical economists explain informal learning as rational behavior that arises out of enlightened self-interest. They can also justify it as acts that satisfy the agent's preferences for the utility of others. By contrast, this paper shows that Smith's moral sentiments model anticipates a biological approach that explains additional and d…
Sentiments and Motivations in Adam Smith and Vernon Smith
Vernon Smith (VS) discovered Adam Smith (AS) late in his professional career, and has adopted ideas from The Theory of Moral Sentiments to explain findings in experimental economics. Most important is the theorized link between moral sentiments and the evolution of property rights and law as foundations for commerce. VS's encounter with AS, while not new, provides a compelling look at the modern laboratory of social science through the lens of th…
Economics within a Pluralist Ethical Tradition
Ethical pluralism is the recognition that multiple ethical frameworks operate in social settings to solve problems of moral hazard. In particular, non-consequentialist considerations of duty and virtue operate to restrain self-interest and lower transaction costs in exchange, such as when asymmetric information exists. Positive economics has tended to rely exclusively on a behavioral model that assumes utility maximization, but this approach fail…
Ethical Pluralism in Economics
Traditional approaches to understanding morality, through evaluating outcomes, analyzing rules, principles, and duty, and adhering to notions of virtue and character, offer competing but also complementary ways of framing conduct in a social setting. Ethical pluralism is the claim that all three methods are, to some degree, useful to positive economics because each provides distinctive insights into human behavior. Each is also useful in normativ…
Economics (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Economic Theory and Institutions (5 works) · Positive economics (5 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (4 works) · Adam smith (3 works)