Welcome to my homepage. I am Associate Professor of Agribusiness and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Missouri, where I am also a Senior Fellow at the Contracting and Organizations Research Institute. The Department of Agricultural Economics is a part of the Division of Applied Social Sciences in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources. Go Tigers! I am editor-in-chief of Agriculture and Human Values, the journal of the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society. I am also a member of the editorial board for Business Ethics Quarterly, the journal of the Society for Business Ethics. Previously, I was Assistant Professor of Economics in the Barney School of Business
at the University of
Hartford, in In 1995 I completed the Ph.D. program in the Department of Economics
at Washington University in
St. Louis in I am also a graduate of the Economics program at Brigham Young University, which is sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Go Cougars! My research interests include transaction cost economics; the economics of trust, ethics, and happiness; business ethics; law and economics; regulation; and economic history and development. My current research projects include a study of justice in agricultural production and marketing contracting, an investigation of whether the structure of human and social capital necessary for economic growth erodes over time under authoritarian regimes, an analysis of the relationship between the economic pressures farmers face and their ethical attitudes and behaviors, an examination of public trust of biotechnology risk managers, and an assessment of the extent to which hybrid organizational forms are similar to or distinct from vertical integration and market exchanges. Specific Journal of Economic Literature classification codes relevant to my research include: · D23 Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights · D63 Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement · I31 General Welfare; Basic Needs; Living Standards; Quality of Life; Happiness · L14 Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation; Networks · L22 Firm Organization and Market Structure: Markets vs. Hierarchies; Vertical Integration; Conglomerates · Q13 Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness · Z13 Social Norms and Social Capital; Social Networks I am a member of the American Economic Association, the American Agricultural Economics Association, the International Society for New Institutional Economics, the Association for Social Economics, the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society, and the Society for Business Ethics. Some helpful economic resources · The Social Science Research Network. · WebEc's WWW Resources in Economics, including JokEc (Jokes about Economics and Economists), and a List of Economics Journals. · The American Economic Association website, including Resources for Economists on the Internet, Journals indexed in EconLit, the Journal of Economic Literature classification codes, and the current listing of Job Openings for Economists. · The Agriculture Network Information Center, including AgEcon Search AgNIC; see also AgEcon Search. · Nobel Prize winners in economics. Last updated: May 2008 |
