Steve Gardner, PhD

Director - McBride Center for International Business
Herman Brown Professor of Economics - Economics

Contact Information

Email:	Steve_Gardner@baylor.edu
Homepage:	http://business.baylor.edu/Steve_Gardner/
Campus Phone:	(254) 710-6147
Fax:	(254) 710-6142
Mailing Address:	Baylor University, One Bear Place #98003 Waco, TX  76798
Office Location:	Hankamer #333

Educational Background

• Ph D - Economics, UNIV CALIF BERKELEY, 1978
• BA - Economics, UNIV TEXAS AUSTIN, 1973

Responsibilities

Coordinate all international activities of the business school, including curriculum, study-abroad and exchange programs, global Business Forums, and other speakers and conferences.

Awards and Honors

• Outstanding Professor, Baylor University (2005)
• Outstanding Tenured Professor, Baylor University (1994)
• Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar
• Senior Research Fellow of the IC2 Institute, University of Texas at Austin

Professional Memberships

• Academy of International Business
• American Association for Advancement of Slavic Studies
• American Economic Association
• Association for Comparative Economic Studies

Publications

Discipline-based Scholarship

Economic Integration in the Americas, London: Routledge Publishing, February 2008 (coauthors: Joe McKinney).

[Book review, by H. Stephen Gardner], Joseph R. Blasi, Maya Kroumova, and Dougals Kruse, 'Kremlin Capitalism: Privatizing the Russian Economy', Russian Review 58 (1999) 2, 342-343

Comparative Economic Systems: Dryden Press, 1998.

"Product Quality and Price Inflation in Transitional Economies," Economic Statistics for Economies in Transition: Eastern Europe in the 1990s, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1994, pp. pp. 178-191.

"Restructuring the Ruble: Prospects for Convertibility," Finance and the International Economy, 3rd ed, Richard O' Brien and Ingrid Iversen (eds.), London: Oxford University Press, 1990 (coauthors: Steve Green).

"The Implications of Greater East-West Economic Cooperation for the Soviet Economy," Perestroika and East-West Economic Relations, Michael Kraus and Ronald D. Leibowicz (eds.), New York, NY: New York University Press, 1990.

"Restructuring the Soviet Foreign Trade System," Columbia Journal of World Business, Vol. 23, No. 2, (Summer 1988).

"East-West Economic Relations: The Policy Implications of Recent Scholarship," International Economic Perspectives, Vol. 10, (1985).

"Assessing the Cost to the U.S. Economy of Trade Sanctions Against the U.S.S.R.," The Politics of East-West Trade, Gordon Smith (eds.): Westview, 1984.

Soviet Foreign Trade: The Decision Process: Kluwer-Nijhoff, 1983.

"Soviet Foreign Trade Decision Making in the 1980s," Columbia Journal of World Business, Vol. 18, (Winter 1983), pp. 17-23.

"The Factor Content of Soviet Foreign Trade: Rejoinder," Association for Comparative Economic Studies Bulletin, (Spring 1981), pp. 89-101.

"Soviet International Economic Relations: Recent Trends in Policy and Performance," (1981).

"The Factor Content of Soviet Foreign Trade: A Synthesis," Association for Comparative Economic Studies Bulletin, (Summer 1979), pp. 1-16.

Contributions to Practice

"The Future of International Higher Education," Beyond 2020: Envisioning the Future of Universities in America, Mary Landon Darden (eds.), Lanham MD: American Council on Education / Rowman & Littlefield Education, February 2009, pp. pp. 117-132.

"Learning from One Another: The Future of Swedish and American Health Care," Baylor Business Review, (Winter/Spring 2002), pp. 8-9.

"Which Way Globalization?" Baylor Business Review, (Fall 2000).

"United States Leadership in the World Economy," Baylor Business Review, (Spring 1998).

"U.S.-Soviet Trade: Old Problems and New Opportunities," Baylor Business Review, (Summer 1989).

"The Sluggish Soviet Economy," Baylor Business Review, (Winter 1985), pp. 9-13.

Learning and Pedagogical Research

"Teaching Business in Russia," Baylor Business Review, (Fall 1992), pp. 2-5.

Presentations and Proceedings

"Contributions of Free Enterprise to Civil Society," presented at the Free Enterprise Program, Waco, TX, April 2005.

"International Student Recruiting: New Challenges and Strategies," presented at the Southwest Business Deans Association, Dallas, TX, February 2005.

"Immanuel Kant: An Economist's Perspective," presented at the Baylor University Scholar's Day, Waco, TX, March 2004.

"Teaching the History of Economic Thought," presented at the Workshop of Secondary School Social Studies and Economics Teachers, Waco, TX, October 2002.

"Full Members of the Baylor Family (Commencement Address)," presented at the Commencement of Baylor MBA graduates in Jinan, Shandong, China, August 2002.

Discipline-based Scholarship

"Kazakhstan: Building a Competitive Economy and Defeating the Resource Curse," presented at the Kazakhstan’s Model of Economic Development: New Challenges and Perspectives of Competitive Development, Astana, Kazakhstan, September 2007.

"Study Abroad Programs in a Post 911 Environment," Proceedings of the Academy of International Business, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 2007, pp. 169 (coauthors: Dan Rajaratnam, Daniel Brenenstuhl, Terry A Clark).

"Is Asia Different? An Interpretation of Plan-to-Market Transition Experiences in Russia, Eastern Europe, China, and Vietnam," presented at the National Economics University, Hanoi, Vietnam, August 2002.

"Religious Liberty in Russia and China," presented at the Colloquium organized by the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Relations in cooperation with the "Open World" program of the Center for Russian Lea, Baylor University, June 2002.

"A History of the Conception of Rationality in Economics," presented at the Faculty Seminar on Rational Choice Methods, Baylor University, May 2002.

"Gref, Putin, and the New Wave of Russian Economic Reform," presented at the Southwest Social Sciences Association, New Orleans, LA, March 2002.

"Russian Foreign Economic Relations: The Influence of the Soviet Past," presented at the University of Houston - Oxford University second joint conference, "Initial Conditions and the Transition Economy in Russia, Houston, TX, April 2001.

"Interest Group Behavior in the Formation of Russian Economic Policy," presented at the Southwestern Economic Association, Fort Worth, TX, March 2001.

"Russia's New Role in the International Economy," presented at the "Community Connections" program of the Dallas Council on World Affairs, Dallas, TX, May 2000.

"Atlantic Economic Relations and the Future of NATO," presented at the Fourth Annual Trent Park International Conference on The Future of the Atlantic Community, New Hall, Middlesex University, Trent Park, London, June 1999.

"Regional and Global Trade Liberalization: Substitutes or Complements?," presented at the Wilton Park Conference, "Multilateral Trade Negotiations: The Way Forward?", Wiston House, Steyning, West Sussex, U.K., June 1999.

"Alternatives to the Virtual Economy," presented at the Southwestern Economic Association, San Antonio, TX, April 1999.

"The Launch of the Euro: Its Significance for Asia," presented at the Fudan University, Shanghai, China, November 1998.

"The Russian Economy and the Future of Europe," presented at the Conference on Europe in the 21st Century, Baylor University, September 1998.

"Is Economics Still the Dismal Science? Social Scientists and the New Century," presented at the Faculty Seminar, Baylor University, April 1998.

"The Political Economy of Russian Financial Policy," presented at the Southwestern Slavic Association, Denton, TX, February 1998.

Learning and Pedagogical Research

"Globalization and Promotion of Creativity in Education," presented at the University Presidents’ Forum, Shanghai, China, October 2006 (coauthors: William Mitchell).