post

Senior Lecturer Economics

key teaching areas

• Introduction to Macroeconomics
• Economic and Political Framework
• State and Economy
• From Political Economy to Economics

research interests

• Economics and Morality
• Political Economy and the Independent Labourer
• The self, economics and other disciplines.

publications

• Dixon, W and Wilson, D. (2010). "Thomas Chalmers: the market, moral conduct and social order" History of Political Economy (October)
• Wilson, D and Dixon, W. (2009). "Performing economics: a critique of T&L". International Review of Economics Education 8:2
• Wilson, D and Dixon, W. (2009) "Sentimentality, communicative action and the social self: Adam Smith meets Jurgen Habermas" History of the Human Sciences 22:3
• Dixon, William and Wilson, David 2006, 'Political Economy and the Historians: E.P. Thompson and the Moral Depletion Hypothesis' History of Economics Review 43 Winter
• Dixon, William 2008, 'Ricardo: Economic Thought and Social Order' Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Volume 30, Issue 02, June , pp 235-253
• Wilson, David. and Dixon, William. 2004, 'The Irreducibly Social Self in Classical Economy: Adam Smith and Thomas Chalmers meet G.H. Mead.' History of Economics Review, 40 Summer, pp.121-136
• Wilson, David. and Dixon, William. 2008 (a), 'Homo Economicus Meets G. H. Mead: A Contribution to the Critique of Economic Theory' American Journal of Economics and Sociology Volume 67 Issue 2 April pp.241-263.
• Wilson, David. and Dixon, William. 2008 (b), 'Reciprocity and economics in historical perspective' International Review of Economics Volume 55 issues 1-2 April pp. 65-76.