Professor Emeritus of Economics at Duke University, Thomas H. Naylor is a writer and a political activist who has taught at Middlebury College and the University of Vermont. For thirty years, he taught economics, management science, and computer science at Duke.
As an international management consultant specializing in strategic management, Dr. Naylor has advised major corporations and governments in over thirty countries. During the 1970s he was President of a 50-person computer software firm whose clients were Fortune 500 companies worldwide.
Professor Naylor was one of the first to predict in The New York Times the unexpected changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, where he traveled frequently in the 1980s. From this experience he has concluded the American Empire, not unlike its former nemesis the USSR, has lost its moral authority and is no longer sustainable. This led him to help launch the Second Vermont Republic, Vermont’s independence movement, in 2003. Utne Magazine editor Jay Walljasper dubbed him “Tom Paine for the 21st century.”
The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Adbusters, Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, and Business Week have published his articles. He has appeared on ABC’s Nightline, CBS News, CBC’s The National, CNN, C-SPAN2, National Public Radio, and Minnesota Public Radio. The most recent of his thirty books are Downsizing the U.S.A., Affluenza, and The Vermont Manifesto. He is currently completing a book entitled Rebél. For additional information, visit www.vermontrepublic.org.