Welcome to my homepage. I am Associate Professor of Agribusiness and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Agricultural & Applied 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! 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 the economics of trust, ethics, and happiness; business and applied ethics generally; and the ethics of competition, especially in agricultural markets. I am a member of the American Economic Association, the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, the Association for Social Economics, the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society, and the Society for Business Ethics. Last updated: January 2013 |