Faculty Profiles

Houston, Douglas A.

Director of Finance, Economics, and Decision Sciences


345-D Summerfield Hall
University of Kansas, School of Business
1300 Sunnyside Avenue
Lawrence, KS 66045-7585

P: (785) 864-7564
dhouston@ku.edu

Education PhD Indiana University, School of Business Masters Indiana University, School of Business Bachelors BA, Economics, Union College (Schenectady, NY)
Academic Areas Decision Sciences Economics Finance
Interests Energy markets Environmental policies Political economy Behavioral economics
Current Activities A fair amount of my work now involves the activities of the “FEDS” (Finance, Economics, and Decision Sciences), of which I am Area Director. I continue to teach primarily economics courses and the School’s one course in “political economy.” I am quite interested in “behavioral economics” and the affects that evolutionary psychology and neurosciences are playing in informing economics. Things are far less “black box” in economics these days. That stories economists tell are messier, but also far more realistic and interesting.
Selected Publications "Can Corruption Ever Improve an Economy?" Cato Journal (Fall 2007, Vol. 27, no. 3) forthcoming. "Can the Internet Promote Open Global Societies?" The Independent Review, (Winter, 2003, Vol. 3), pp. 353-369. "Trust in the Networked Economy: Doing Business on Web Time," Business Horizons, March-April 2001. Houston, Douglas A. "Demand-Side Management Expenditures and the Market Value of U.S. Electric Utilities," in Deregulation of Electric Utilities, edited by Georges Zaccour. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Norwell, MA, 1998. Houston, Douglas A.