Dr. R. D. Norton is an AIER Research Fellow and was a Visiting Research Fellow in 1999 and 2006. He has written or edited ten books, starting with a monograph on sales taxes at the Tax Foundation, and including works on city and regional growth and on the entrepreneurial economy. He was formerly Executive Director of the Eastern Economic Association and an economics professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, Mount Holyoke College, and Bryant College, where he had an endowed chair in business economics.