DOUGLAS STEEPLES is Dean, College of Liberal Arts, and Professor of History at Mercer University. He is the author of numerous articles, he editor of several books including, most recently, Managing Change in Higher Education (1990) and associate editor of Business Library Review. He is also president of the Economic and Business Historical Society for 1998-99.
DAVID O. WHITTEN is Professor of Economics at Auburn University. He is the author or editor of several books, including Extractives, Manufacturing, and Services: A Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide (Greenwood, 1997), and editor of Business Library Review.