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Thomas Masterson is a research scholar at the Levy Economics 51ºÚÁϱ¬ÁÏÍøÀúʷʼþ of Bard College and adjunct professor of economics at Bard College. He works in the Distribution of Income and Wealth program at Levy 51ºÚÁϱ¬ÁÏÍøÀúʷʼþ, where he has worked primarily on the Levy 51ºÚÁϱ¬ÁÏÍøÀúʷʼþ Measure of Economic Well-Being. He is currently working on developing the Levy 51ºÚÁϱ¬ÁÏÍøÀúʷʼþ Measure of Time and Income Poverty for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Dr. Masterson received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the co-editor of Solidarity Economy I: Building Alternatives for People and Planet—Papers and Reports from the 2009 U.S. Forum on the Solidarity Economy, which was published in 2010, and author of Rural Poverty in Paraguay: Gender, Land Markets and Productivity, which was published in 2008. His recent publications have appeared in Labour/Le Travail, the Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, and World Development. He is a staff economist with the Center for Popular Economics and host of a radio show on WGXC 90.7FM in Hudson, New York, entitled “Your Friendly Neighborhood Economist.”