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Jon D. Wisman
Professor of Economics
Roper 111
Tel: (202) 885-3158
Fax: (202) 885-3790
My Email
Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
Methodology, History of Economic Thought, General Economic History,
Workplace Democracy.
Teaching Interests
History of Economic Thought, Methodology, History, Introductory
Macroeconomics.
Professional Activities
Former President (2002) of the Association for Social Economics,
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal
of Social Economics, Les Cahiers du GRATICE (French economics
journal).
Honors
Twice recipient of the American University Award
for Outstanding Teaching, Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society's Professor
of the Year, Winner of the $10,000 Speiser Essay Contest.
Recent Publications
- “Household Saving, Class Identity, and Conspicuous Consumption,” Journal of Economic Issues, March 2009 (forthcoming March 2009).
- “The Moral Imperative and Social Rationality of Government-Guaranteed Employment and Reskilling,” Review of Social Economy (forthcoming).
- “The Economic Causes of War and Peace,” Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, Oxford: Elsevier 2008: 622-34.
- “On Human Behavior and the Nature of the Workplace,” Festschrift in Honor of Peter Danner, Edward O’Boyle, ed., Routledge (forthcoming).
- "State Lotteries: Using State Power to Fleece the Poor," Journal of Economic Issues, XL (4), December 2006, 955- 966.
- "Creative Destruction and Community," in Ethics and the Market: Insights from Social Economics. Edited by Betsy Jane Clary, Wilfred Dolfsma, and Deborah M. Figart. London: Routledge, 2006, Chapter 3, pp. 26-40.
- "Did U.S. Labor’s Post-World War II Successes Lead to It’s Subsequent Woes?" International Journal of Social Economics, 32 (10), 2005, 899-915.
- "U. S. Labor Re-examined 1880-1990: Did Successes Lead to Reversals?" The Institutionalist Tradition in Labor Economics. Edited by Janet Knoedler and Dell Champlin. M.E. Sharpe, 2004, 88-102 (with PhD student Aaron Pacitti).
- "The Scope and Promising Future of Social Economics," Review of Social Economy, LXI (4), December 2003, 1-21. Presidential Address to The Association for Social Economics.
- "Creative Destruction and Labor’s Options" Forum for Social Economics, 30 (2), Spring 2001, 51-76.
- "Rethinking the Social Character of Social Science," in Amitava Krishna Dutt and Kenneth P. Jameson (eds.), Crossing the Mainstream: Ethical and Methodological Issues in Economics, Southbend, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001. 277-96.
- "Competition, Cooperation, and the Future
of the Workplace," Peace Review, 12 (2), 2000, pp. 197-203.
- "Teaching Introductory Macroeconomics
as Social Economics," in Edward J. O'Boyle (ed.), Teaching the
Social Economics Way of Thinking, Edward Mellon Press, March
2000, pp. 571- 81.
- "American Institutionalism and Technological
Change," Journal of Economic Issues, 23 (4), December 1999,
887-902 (with James F. Smith).
- "Economic Causes of War and Peace," Encyclopedia
of Violence, Peace and Conflict. San Diego: Academic Press,
1999, pp. 625-37.
- "Christianity, John Paul II, and the
Future of Work," International Journal of Social Economics,
25 (11/12), Summer 1998, 1658-71.
- "The Ignored Issue of Workplace Democracy
in Political Discourse," International Journal of Social Economics,
24 (12), 1997, 1388-1403.
- "Economic Dynamism and The Challenge
to Community," Humanomics, 12 (4), Summer 1996, 24-48.
- "American Institutionalism and the Struggle
for an Evolutionary Theory of Social Change," Les Cahiers du
CRATICE, No. 8, 1995, 35-55.
- "Exploring the Frustrated Quest for Greater
Equality in the U.S," Humanomics, Summer 1994, 122-45.
- "Should Formerly Socialist Economies
Attempt to Leapfrog Classical Capitalism," Economic Analysis
and Workers' Management, 26 (3), 1992, 195-215.
- "Economic Science's Bondage to the Material
Progress Vision," Humanomics, 8 (2), Summer, 1992, 5-29.
- "Capital-Labor Tensions and Liberal Economic
Thought," Festschrift in Honor of John E. Elliott, Special Issue
of International Journal of Social Economics, 19, December 1992,
279-97.
- "The Methodology of Institutionalism
Revisited," Journal of Economic Issues, 25 (3), Fall 1991, 709-37.
With Doctoral Candidate Joseph Rozansky.
- "Is There A Significant Future For Workplace
Democracy?" in Jon D. Wisman, ed., Worker Empowerment: The Struggle
for Workplace Democracy. New York: Bootstrap Press, 1991, pp.
11-23.
- "Beyond Foundationalism and Relativism:
What Hope for Sciences of Society?", Humanomics, 6 (2), Spring
1991, 4-19.
- "Pour une e'conomie approprie'e, une
conception de l'homme approprie'e," Revue d'économie sociale,
Spring 1990, pp. 161-68.
- "The Scope and Goals of Economic Science:
A Habermasian Perspective," in Don Lavoie, ed., Hermeneutics
and Economics. London: Routledge, 1990.
- "Economic Knowledge, Evolutionary Epistemology,
and Human Interests," Journal of Economic Issues, 23 (2), June
1989, pp. 647-56.
- "Straightening Out the Backward-bending
Supply Curve of Labor: From Overt to Covert Compulsion and Beyond,"
in Review of Political Economy, I (1), March 1989, pp. 94-112.
- "The Search for Grand Theory in Economic
History: North's Challenge to Marx," Social Research, 55 (4),
Winter 1988, pp. 747-73. (With John Willoughby and Larry Sawers).
Works in Progress
- "The Declining Dominance of Agriculture
and the Democratization of Freedom: A Transactions Costs Perspective.
- "We All Must Work: Creative Destruction
and The Pursuit of Happiness (book project).
- "Adam Smith's Appropriation Theory of
Human Behavior Reconsidered."
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