Thomas Naylor is professor emeritus of economics at Duke University, where he taught for thirty years. He has also taught at Middlebury College. He is a writer and social critic and has consulted with governments and major corporations in more than thirty countries. In 1993 he moved to Charlotte, Vermont, where he writes about the search for meaning and community and for simplifying all aspects of our lives His articles have been published in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, the Nation, and Business Week. He has appeared on ABC, CBS, CNN, NPR, and the CBC. He is the author or co-author of thirty books.