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Winter 2009 http://www.wright.edu/business

Current Faculty Research and Publications


The Raj Soin College of Business prides itself in having been AACSB accredited since 1974.  To maintain this rigorous standard of quality, our faculty engages in leading-edge research.  The following are some of the recent scholarly publications from the Economics Department. 

Books:
Tran Huu Dung, The Microeconomics Reader, Routledge Press, 2009.
Zdravka Todorova, Money and Households in a Capitalist Economy, Edward Elgar Publishers, 2009.
John P. Blair and Michael Carroll, Local Economic Development: Analysis, Practices, and Globalization, 2nd edition.  Sage Publishers, 2009.
Evan Osborne, The Rise of the Anti-Corporate Movement, Greenwood Press, 2007.

Articles and Chapters:
Sirisha Naidu, “Heterogeneity and Collective Management: Evidence from Common Forests in Himachal Pradesh, India” World Development, forthcoming.
Evan Osborne, “Economic Freedom, Ethnic Separatism, and Ethnic Conflict” Journal of Developing Areas, forthcoming.
John P. Blair and Michael Carroll, “Social Capital and Local Economic Development” in James Rowe (ed) Theories of Local Economic Development.  Ashgate, 2009.
Robert Premus and Charles Gulas, “Inventing Flight: A Once-in-a-Lifetime Business Opportunity” Journal of Business and Behavioral Sciences, forthcoming.

2008:
Thomas L. Traynor, “Regional Economic Conditions and Crash Fatality Rates—A Cross-County Analysis” Journal of Safety Research, 39(1), 2008: 33-39.
Robert Premus and Nada R. Sanders, “Information Sharing in Global Supply Chain Alliances” Journal of Asia-Pacific Business, 9(2), 2008: 174-192.
Charles S. Gulas, Robert Premus, and John P. Blair, “Choosing a Business Location at Startup: A Case Study” Business Journal for Entrepreneurs, issue 3, 2008: 1-31.
John P. Blair and Michael C. Carroll, “Social Capital as a Local Development Tool” Economic Development Journal, 7(3), 2008: 42-49.
Evan Osborne, “Commerce is Beautiful” Independent Review, 13(1), Summer 2008: 41-56.
Joseph G. Eisenhauer, “An Economic Definition of the Middle Class” Forum for Social Economics, 37, August 2008: 103-113.
Joseph G. Eisenhauer, “Attitudes Toward Large-Scale Risks: A Discrete Estimation using Dutch Data” European Journal of Economics, Finance, and Administrative Science, 10, March 2008: 138-150.
Joseph G. Eisenhauer, “Ethical Preferences, Risk Aversion, and Taxpayer Behavior” Journal of Socio-Economics, 37(1), February 2008: 45-63.
Joseph G. Eisenhauer, “Degrees of Freedom” Teaching Statistics, 30(3), August 2008: 75-78.

2007:
Barbara E. Hopkins, “Western Cosmetics in the Gendered Development of Consumer Culture in China” Feminist Economics: Special Issue on China and the WTO, 13(3-4), 2007: 253-272.
Paulette Olson, “On the Contributions of Barbara Bergmann to Economics” Review of Political Economy, 19(4), October 2007: 475-496.
John P. Blair and Michael C. Carroll, “Inner City Neighborhoods and Metropolitan Development” Economic Development Quarterly, 21(3) August 2007: 263-277.
Zdravka Todorova, “Deficits and Institutional Theorizing About Households and the State” Journal of Economic Issues, 41(2) June 2007: 575-582.
Fragiskos Archontakis and Evan Osborne, “Playing It Safe? A Fibonacci Strategy for Soccer Betting” Journal of Sports Economics, 8(3) 2007: 295-308.

To review a more comprehensive list of publications, please visit the Economics Department website at:  http://www.wright.edu/business/acad/econ/

 

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