The Economic and Business Historical Society
On-Line Proceedings Journal
Volume 23, 2005
Papers from the thirtieth annual conference
of the
Economic and Business Historical Society
Held at
High Point, North Carolina
April 28, 29, & 30, 2005
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AN ACADEMIC HERETIC'S PROPOSAL FOR COST CONTAINMENT: THE AUTONOMOUS BACCALAUREATE COLLEGE
Patrick Leonard
Vice President for Academic Services
College of the Southwest
6610 Lovington Highway
Hobbs, New Mexico 88240
505-392-6561
pleonard@csw.edu
Abstract
College and university tuition continues to increase faster than the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The response of higher education is defensive and self-serving, focusing on external cost pressures, the difference between total cost and sticker price rather the cost of doing business as usual. The traditional mix of faculty, curriculum, and capital, the academic production function, has been ignored as a primary contributor to ever-increasing tuition charges. As long as the inviolate production function remains unchallenged, cost containment will remain elusive.
THE WISCONSIN WINNEBAGOS, 1963-2000:
A PROBLEM IN
DECOLONIZATION
Douglas Steeples
Retired, Mercer University
656 River North Blvd.
Macon, GA 31211
marliesesteeples@aol.com
ABSTRACT
This paper narrates and interprets the experiences of the Wisconsin Winnebagos
as they formed an effective tribal government and moved toward economic
self-sufficiency, 1963-2000. Their progress depended on a singular mixture of
political and economic choices that included a strategic, highly profitable but
risky, turn to casino gaming as a prime source of income. Their story
demonstrates the continued usefulness of the term "Political Economy." It
illustrates afresh the ways in which government and the material organization
and functioning of a society remain tightly intertwined. It also illuminates the
limitations that circumscribe nation-building and the achievement of
self-sufficiency by a largely traditional society that is contained within,
subject to the control of, and a de facto internal colony of a larger,
conquering, dominant external nation state.
[Editor's note: Douglas Steeples is researching a book on the topic of this paper. In a postscript to the paper Dean Steeples outlines his book.]
What'S In a Name?
A Brief History of Saks Fifth Avenue
Mark L. Gardner
Department of Management, Marketing, and Economics
Piedmont College
P.O. Box 10
Demorest, GA 30535
ph 706-778-8500 est. 1250
fax 706-776-2811
ABSTRACT
Saks department store chain was founded in 1902 Washington, DC as a men's clothing store. The name Fifth Avenue was added in 1924 when the New York Herald Square store moved to fashionable Fifth Avenue. In return for control of the firm the Gimbel family financed the move and behind the leadership of Adam Long Gimbel (1925--1969) Saks established its reputation as a premier luxury retailer. By 1978 Saks was operating 30 stores and in 2004, 63, including the Off 5th outlet stores. At the beginning of the twenty-first century Saks faced internal and external challenges to its survival.