In-Character National Prize, Templeton Foundation, For best editorial writing on the human virtues. Co-winner with Douglas Hicks.
Templeton Award for Best Paper, Journal of Private Enterprise Education, For paper entitled, "Adam Smith and Greed"
Distinguished Educator Award, University of Richmond
Outstanding Teaching Award, Robins School of Business, University of Richmond
Outstanding Service Award, Robins School of Richmond, University of Richmond
National Danforth Fellow, Danforth Foundation, Awarded to graduate students interested in the ethical foundations of their disciplines.
Wight B. Jonathan, "Freedom, Government Growth and the Increasing Size of Cities", Association for Private Enterprise Education
Wight B. Jonathan, Morton S. John, "Teaching the Ethical Foundations of Economics", Workshop on Ethics and Economics, Tucson, AZ
Wight B. Jonathan, Imperialism and the Gains to Trade, Association for Private Enterprise Education
Wight B. Jonathan, Public Policy, Human Instincts, and Economic Growth, Association for Private Enterprise Education
Wight B. Jonathan, Morton S. John, "Teaching the Ethical Foundations of Economics", Workshop on Ethics and Economics, Tucson, AZ
Wight B. Jonathan, Blevins Benjamin, The Morals of the Mayan Marketplace, Association for Private Enterprise Education
Wight B. Jonathan, The Moral Limits to Markets, Virginia Association of Economists
Wight B. Jonathan, The Moral Limits to Markets, Southern Economic Association
Wight B. Jonathan, A New High School Curriculum on the Ethical Foundations of Economics, Association for Private Enterprise Education, Cancun, Mexico
Wight B. Jonathan, Smith, Darwin, and the Invisible Hand: Implications for Economic Institutions, Association for Private Enterprise Education, Cancun, Mexico
Wight B. Jonathan, John S. Morton, Teaching the Ethical Foundations of Economics, Workshop on Ethics and Economics, Las Vegas, NV
Wight B. Jonathan, Top Ten Lessons on Ethics in Economics: The Templeton/NCEE Project , American Economic Association, Chicago, Illinois
Wight B. Jonathan, Martin Calkins, Smith and Friedman on Profit and Complex Motivations, Society for Business Ethics, Atlanta, GA
Wight B. Jonathan, The Market and Morality, Association for Private Enterprise Education, Las Vegas, NV
Visiting Scholar, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. (October 1997 - June 1998).
Instructor and Teaching Assistant, Vanderbilt University. (1977 - 1982).
Other
Visiting Professor - Semester at Sea, University of Pittsburgh. (January 1991 - May 1991).
Departmental Diversity Advocate, Economics Department. (2010).
Professional
Board of Directors of a Company, Association for Social Economics, Vice President. (January 2011 - Present).
Session chair and session organizer, National Conference on Teaching Economics, American Economic Association, Stanford University. (June 2011).
Board of Directors of a Company, Powell Center for Economic Literacy, Member. (March 2008 - June 2011).
Outside reviewer - Promotion Committee, Economics Department, Texas Christian University. (2010).
Outside reviewer for Provost's Research Award, LaSalle University. (2010).
Attendee, Meeting, Summer Institute for the Preservation of History of Thought. (June 2010).
Attendee, Meeting, Liberty Fund. (May 2010).
Program Organizer, Liberty Fund. (January 2010).
Session Chair, Association for Social Economics. (January 2009).
PROMOTION - EXTERNAL REVIEWER, College of Staten Island. (December 2008).
Grant Proposal Reviewer, External, JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION. (December 2008).
Board of Advisors of a Company, História e Economia, Member. (2004 - 2008).
Session Chair, Virginia Association of Economists, annual meeting,. (March 2008).
Public/Community
Board of Directors of a Company, Aquia Church Association. (2001 - Present).
Board of Directors of a Company, Highland Support Project of Guatemala, Secretary. (1993 - Present).
Robins School of Business
Full Professors Committee. (August 17, 2006 - Present).
Committee Member, Full Professors Committee. (August 19, 2008 - May 11, 2009).
University of Richmond
PPEL Advisory Committee. (2009 - Present).
Committee Member, International Studies Advisors. (September 1988 - Present).
Center for Civic Engagement Steering Committee. (August 17, 2009 - May 7, 2011).
Day-long workshop on Reconceiving the Liberal Arts. Teagle Foundation, Office of the Chaplaincy. (October 2010).
Participant, Faculty Seminar, PPEL. (January 2010 - May 2010).
Committee Member, CCE Advisory Committee. (August 19, 2009 - May 10, 2010).
Committee Member, IS Advisory Committee. (August 19, 2009 - May 10, 2010).
Committee Member, PPEL Advisory Committee. (August 19, 2009 - May 10, 2010).
Calls to admitted students, Admissions Office. (April 2010).
Committee Member, Jepson School Promotion Committee External Reviewer. (August 2009 - December 2009).
Chairperson, Honorary Degrees Committee. (August 2007 - June 2009).
Committee Member, International Education Committee. (2007 - 2008).
Committee Member, Provost Search Committee. (September 2007 - March 2008).
Jonathan B. Wight, "Ethics and Critical Thinking," in Gail Hoyt and KimMarie McGoldrick, eds. The International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics (Aldershot: Edward Elgar Press)., 2012
Benjamin Blevins, Guadalupe Ramirez, Jonathan B. Wight, "Ethics in the Mayan Marketplace" in Mark D. White, ed., Accepting the Invisible Hand, 2010
Jonathan B. Wight, Book review of The Elgar Companion to Adam Smith by Jeffrey T. Young, ed. (Edward Elgar), EH.NET of the Economic History Association, 2010
Jonathan B. Wight, "Moral Reasoning in Economics", in David C. Colander and KimMarie McGoldrick, eds., Educating Economists: The Teagle Discussion on Re-evaluating the Undergraduate Economics Major / Edward Elgar, 2009
Jonathan B. Wight, Preface to new Chinese edition of Saving Adam Smith, Renmin University Press, 2009
Jonathan B. Wight, Reprint of "Adam Smith on Instincts, Ethics, and Informal Learning" (reprint of RoSE article), 2009, pp. 166-184
Jonathan B. Wight, Teaching Economics, Handbook of Economics and Ethics /Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2009, 539-546
Jonathan B. Wight, Introduction to The Wealth of Nations, Harriman House, 2007
Jonathan B. Wight, John S. Morton, Teaching the Ethical Foundations of Economics, National Council on Economic Education, 2007, 188 pp
Jonathan B. Wight, "Saving Adam Smith" in George MacLean and Brenda O'Neil, eds., Ideas, Interests and Issues: Readings in Introductory Politics: 83-33, Ideas, Interests and Issues: Readings in Introductory Politics, 2006, 83-88
Jonathan B. Wight, Teaching the Ethical Foundations of Economics: The Principles Course, in Betsy Jane Clary, Wilfred Dolfsma, and Deborah M. Figart, eds. Ethics and the Market: Insights from Social Economics, (London: Routledge, 2006): 55-66., 2006, 55-66
Jonathan B. Wight, Saving Adam Smith: A Tale of Wealth, Transformation, and Virtue, Prentice Hall, 2002, 322 pp
Jonathan B. Wight, John L. Fiedler, The Medical Offset Effect and Public Health Policy, Praeger, 1989, 216 pp
Jonathan B. Wight, Institutional Divergence in Economic Development, The Adam Smith Review, Symposium on Anglo-American Capitalism, 2011, 309-326
Jonathan B. Wight, Elias L. Khalil, Preface: Emotions, Natural Selection, and Rationality, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2011, 1-3
Jonathan B. Wight, Public Policy, Human Instincts, and Economic Growth, The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 351-365
Jonathan B. Wight, Book review of Moral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the Economy by Paul J. Zak, ed. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008), Southern Economic Review, 2010, 1137-1140
Jonathan B. Wight, "Adam Smith on Instincts, Ethics, and Informal Learning: Proximate Mechanisms in Multilevel Selection Theory", Review of Social Economy, 2009, 95-113
Jonathan B. Wight, John S. Morton, "Do Businesses Have a Social Responsibility?", Social Education, 2009, 84-91
Martin Calkins, Jonathan B. Wight, "The Ethical Lacunae in Friedman's Concept of the Manager", Journal of Markets & Morality, 2009, 221-238
Jonathan B. Wight, Book review of Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective on Markets, Law, Ethics, and Culture, Review of Social Economy 67(2): 254-258, 2009
Jonathan B. Wight, "Sociability and the Market", Forum on Social Economics, 2009, 97-110
Jonathan B. Wight, Review of Macro Mayhem and Micro Mischief by Michael L. Walden and M.E. Whitman Walden (New York: iUniverse), Journal of Economic Literature, 2007, 1024-26
Jonathan B. Wight, "The Treatment of Smith's Invisible Hand", The Journal of Economic Education, 2007, 34l-358
Jonathan B. Wight, "Adam Smith and Poverty", Econ-Exchange, 2007, 2-4
Jonathan B. Wight, Book review of Poverty, Work and Freedom: Political Economy and the Moral Order by David P. Levine and S. Abu Rizvi (Cambridge University Press), Journal of Socio-Economics, 2007, 163-165
Jonathan B. Wight, "Adam Smith's Ethics and the Noble Arts", Review of Social Economy, 2006, 155-180
Jonathan B. Wight, Adam Smith and Greed, Journal of Private Enterprise, 2005, 46-58
Jonathan B. Wight, Book review of Culture and Prosperity: The Truth About Markets-Why Some Nations Are Rich But Most Remain Poor by John Kay (HarperBusiness), Southern Economic Journal, 2005, 683-685
Jonathan B. Wight, Book review of Physioeconomics: The Basis for Long-Run Economic Growth by Philip Parker, (MIT Press), Review of Social Economy, 2005, 139-143
Jonathan B. Wight, Book review of Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paulo, 1750-1850 by Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein (Stanford University Press), Historia e Economia, 2005, 121-123
Jonathan B. Wight, John L. Fiedler, Privatization and the Allure of Franchising: A Zambian Feasibility Study, The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2003, 179-204
Jonathan B. Wight, Teaching the Ethical Foundations of Economics, The Chronicle of Higher Education Review, 2003, B7-B9
Jonathan B. Wight, The Rise of Adam Smith: Articles and Citations, 1970-97, History of Political Economy, 2002, 55-82
Jonathan B. Wight, Does Free Trade Cause Hunger? Hidden Implications of the Free Trade of the Americas Area, Richmond Journal of Global Law and Business, 2001, 167-181
Jonathan B. Wight, John L. Fiedler, Financing Health Care at the Local Level: The Community Drug Funds of Honduras, The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2000, 319-340
Jonathan B. Wight, John L. Fiedler, Robert M. Schmidt, Risk-Adjustment and Hospital Cost-Based Resource Allocation, with an Application to El Salvador, Social Science and Medicine, 1999, 197-212
Jonathan B. Wight, John L. Fiedler, Robert M. Schmidt, Public Hospital Resource Allocations in El Salvador: Accounting for the Case Mix of Patients, Health Policy and Planning, 1998, 296-310
Jonathan B. Wight, Book review of The Brazilian Economy: Growth and Development, 2nd Edition (1983) by Werner Baer, Luso-Brazilian Review, 1984, 109-111
Jonathan B. Wight, Book review of International Finance and Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan), Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1987, 451-453
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