Meet the Volume Editor

Brian W. Sloboda is an economist at the US Department of Labor and a faculty member at the University of Maryland, Global Campus where he teaches economics and finance. His research focuses on regional economics, economic growth, and labor economics with avocational research interests in finance and presidential election forecasting models. He is a committee member of the Federal Forecasters Consortium (FFC), a board member of the

Pennsylvania Economics Association, and a member of the editorial board of *Pennsylvania Economic Review*. Dr. Sloboda is the former president of the Society of Government Economists (SGE) and is now its executive director. He is currently an assistant editor for the *Journal of Economics* and a senior social science editor for the *European Scientific Journal.* He is also a book review editor for the *Review of Regional Studies.*

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