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Professor Robert A. Black

Professor of Economics

Houghton College

Office: Academic Building 315
Phone: 716-567-9641
Rblack@houghton.edu

Has been teaching at Houghton since Fall 1991.
BS, W. Va. Wesleyan College, 1972, PhD, W. Va. University, 1984.

Academic Interests

• Applied Economic Theory
• Monetary Economics
• Managerial Economics
• Economic Institutions
• Economic History
• Econometrics

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Houghton College
Houghton, NY
Economics and Business Department
Professor, Associate Professor of Economics
8/91 - present

King College
Economics and Business Department
Bristol, TN
Associate Professor of Economics
8/88 - 6/91
Served two years as Department Chair

Drexel University
Economics Department
Philadelphia, PA
Instructor and Visiting Asst. Professor
6/84 - 8/88

Pennsylvania State University
Economics Department
State College, PA
Instructor
11/79 - 5/84

Applied Management Sciences
Economics Group
Silver Springs, MD
Project Analyst in Health Economics
6/79 - 11/79

West Virginia University
Economics Department
Morgantown, WV
Graduate Instructor
8/75 - 5/79

 

PUBLISHED ARTICLES:

"Without a Strategic Plan, the People Perish?" Journal of Biblical Integration in Business (1998).

"John Commons on Customer Goodwill and the Economic Value of Business Ethics: Response to Professor Sen," Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1994), pp. 359-365.

"Henry Sidgwick and the Institutionalists on Goodwill of the Firm," History of Political Economy, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Spring 1992), pp. 79-116.

"Exchange Rates, Unemployment, and Energy Prices in Stein's Real-Balance Inflation Equation," (with C. Benzing); Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 17, No. 2 (April-June 1991), pp. 189-197.

"Endogenous Demand for Alcohol and Self Command: A Model of the Temperance Solution," Handbook of Behavioral Economics, Vol. 2B (1991), pp. 453-469.

"Crowding Out During Britain's Industrial Revolution" (with C. Gilmore), Journal of Economic History, Vol. L, No. 1 (March 1990), pp. 109-131.

"Critical Legal Studies, Economic Realism, and the Theory of the Firm" (with R. Kreider and M. Sullivan), University of Miami Law Review, Vol. 43, No. 2 (November 1988), pp. 343-360.

"Comparing Schemes to Rank Areas According to Degree of Health Manpower Shortage" (with K. Chui), Inquiry, Vol. 18 (Fall 1981), pp. 3-11.

 

SHORT ARTICLES and REVIEWS

"Demand and Supply," Reader’s Guide to Social Sciences (January 2000).

"Cambridge Circus," Encyclopedia of Keynesian Economics, T. Kate, ed. (Edward Elgar), 1997.

Book review of Robert H. Nelson’s Reaching for Heaven on Earth, for Christian Scholars Review, Vol. 24, No. 2 (December 1994).

 

WORKING PAPERS:

"Why Are Some Nations Rich and Others Poor," Presented at the CBFA Meetings (October 1999).

"Civil Society and the Economy: Civility among Merchants," January 1999.

"What Did Adam Smith Say about Self-Love," presented at the Western Economic Association Meetings, San Diego, July 1995.

 

TEXTBOOK DRAFTS:

Economy and Economic Analysis, published in a draft edition (2000). [Click on Text button above.]

Managerial Economics, revised and printed for class use (Spring 2000).

Essential Statistics, revised and printed for class use (Fall 1999).