Dr. Bob Black
Professor of Economics

Bobby BlackPhD, West Virginia University, 1984
BA, West Virginia Wesleyan College, 1974

Experience: Dr. Black joined the Houghton Business and Economics faculty in 1991. He teaches economic principles, managerial economics, money and banking, and statistics. He has traveled and lectured on six different occasions in Russia. He has also been an expert witness in court cases involving human-capital valuations. On campus, he has served on the Curriculum Review, Academic Policies, and Rank and Tenure Committees.

Dr. Black was a James Still Fellow (Summer 1989) in the Visiting Scholars Program, sponsored by the University of Kentucky and the Mellon Foundation. He held the Hoselton Chair of Private Enterprise & Ethics at Houghton from 1996-1999 and 1999-2002. He was also invited to participate in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's 39th Central Bank Seminar, January 9-11, 1999.

Professionally Dr. Black is active in the American Economic Association, the Association of Christian Economists, and the Christian Business Faculty Association.

  
Email: robert.black@houghton.edu
 
Phone: 585-567-9641
(Campus ext. 6410)

Office: Chamberlain Center 315

Teaching areas: Economic principles, managerial economics, money and banking, comparative economic systems, and statistics

Published textbook: Economy and Economic Analysis, a principles text (2004), Triangle Publishing; Marion, Indiana.

Published articles:
"What Did Adam Smith Say about Self-Love" Journal of Markets & Morality, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring 2006), pp. 16-34;
"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 Sedgwick 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 (Nov. 1988), pp. 343-360.

Published reviews:
Book review of U. Duchrow & F. Hinkleammert, Property for People, Not Profit: Alternatives to Global Capitalism, published in Bulletin of the Association of Christian Economists (Spring 2005).
“Demand and Supply,” Reader’s Guide to Social Sciences, ed. by Jonathan Michie, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001; “Cambridge Circus,” Encyclopedia of Keynesian Economics, T. Kate, ed., Edward Elgar, 1997; book review of Robert H. Nelson, Reaching for Heaven on Earth, for Christian Scholars Review, Vol. 24, No. 2 (December 1994)

Article Reviewer for:
Faith and Economics, of the Assoc. of Christian Economists;
Journal of Biblical Integration in Business, of the Christian Business Faculty Assoc.