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Faculty & Staff Details

Raymond Benton , Jr
Title: Professor
Office #: 1 E Pearson St #440
Phone: 312-915-6137
E-mail: rbenton@luc.edu

Personal Information

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Economics, Colorado State University, 1983
  • M.S., Sociology/Anthropology, Anthropology Concentration, Colorado State University, 1975
  • B.S., Business Administration, Major in Marketing, Advertising Concentration, University of Arizona, 1967

Research Interests

  • Overconsumption
  • Sustainable production and consumption
  • Economics and marketing as cultural belief systems

Professional Associations

  • Environmental Education Association of Illinois 
  • International Association of Ecological Economics 
  • Institutional Association for Environmental Ethics
  • Association for Macromarketing
  • Association for Evolutionary Economics
  • Association for Social Economics

Professional Activities

  • Member, Manuscript Review Board, Journal of Managerial Issues
  • Member, Manuscript Review Board, Journal of Economic Issues

Courses Taught

  • MARK 311: Consumer and Market Suyrveys (a.k.a. Marketing Research)
  • MARK 341: Global Marketing (Rome Only)
  • GSB 410: Environmental Management (MBA)
  • MARK 469:  Global Sustainable Consumption (Overseas Only)
  • MGMT 443: Global Environmental Ethics

Research Listings


REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
"Why Teach Environmental Ethics? Because We Already Do.," Worldviews, Volumne 8, Issue 2/3 2004 , Co-Authors: Christine S. Benton

"Environmental Racism, Consumption, and Sustainability," Business Ethics Quarterly , Vol 12, Issue 1, 2002

"How Well Do Universities Prepare New Environmental Managers?," Environmental Professional, 2000 , Co-Authors: Sarah E. Cottle

"Culture," Encyclopedia of Political Economy, 1999

"Producer and Consumer Sovereignty," Encyclopedia of Political Economy, 1999

"Substantivist vs. Formalist Debate," Encyclopedia of Political Economy, 1999

"What Do Hiring Managers Really Want in Students?: A Survey of NREP Members," Corporate Environment Strategy, 1999

"Faculty Perceptions of Research Responsibilities and Choices at a Catholic University," Current Issues in Catholic Higher Education, 1997 , Co-Authors: Marc Hayford


PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
"Taking Care of Business: Collaborating with Faculty to Create an Information Literacy Course for Undergraduate Business Students," Association of College and Research Libraries' Ninth National Conference, Detroit, April 1999 , Co-presenting: Lenora Berendt

"Building a Win-Win world: Life Beyond Global Economic Warefare: An Introductory Overview and Appreciation of the Work of Hazel Henderson," History and Political Economy Forum Series of the Open University of the Left, Roosevelt University, Chicago, March 1999

"The Business of Consumption," presented at the 24th Macromarketing Seminary: Macromarketing and 21st Century Challenges:, August 1999

"Teaching Environmental Economics from a Social Economics Point of View," Ninth World Congress of Social, DePaul University, Summer 1998

"An informal presentation to The Chicago Area Instruction Librarians Group on the collaborative efforts underway at Loyola," Columbia College, Chicago, September 1998

"Team Teaching a Business Information Resources Course," The Chicago Area Instruction Librarians Group, Columbia College, September 1998

"The Search for Intelligible Information," presentation and demonstration session in the Faculty Forums: Computers in Teaching and Learning, Loyola University Chicago, October 1997