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Bonnie Wilson

Bonnie Wilson is Associate Professor of Economics at Saint Louis University. Her research interests lie primarily in the field of public choice, with focus on special interest groups and on economic freedom. Recent publications include articles in the European Journal of Political Economy on regulation, and in Public Finance Review on diversity and economic freedom. She has also written on the academic capture of higher education by high dollar donors and on leadership ethics, from an economic perspective. In addition to her work as an academic economist, she is an active church musician in the St. Louis area.

Essays

Don’t Fall for False Tradeoffs

From an economic perspective, what we are all experiencing is as simple as it is painful: what we are experiencing is the voluntary and forced breaking down of the relationships we rely on to flourish as social creatures.

The Rupture of Desire: An Interview with China Miéville

The following is a small portion of a longer interview with China Miéville in the journal Political Theology.

Pussy Riot and the Church

This piece is from the Political Theology Network archives originally posted on August 23, 2012.

In Memoriam: Metropolitan John D. Zizioulas and the Journey of Theology Toward the Future

The prominent Eastern Orthodox theologian Metropolitan John D. Zizioulas of Pergamon (Ecumenical Patriarchate) passed in Athens, on February 2, 2023.

Vulnerability

From Myanmar to Mariupol, from the streets of Memphis to the waves and winds of the Mediterranean Sea: resistance to violence takes many forms. So does political protest against precarity. At which point does the unavoidable vulnerability of the living condition come to expression as political agency? Can such precarious politics constitute or configure an alternative community?