Barry Bluestone is Stearns Trustee Professor of Political Economy and Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, as well as a founding member of the Economic Policy Institute. His principal areas of interest are political economy, pubic policy, labor economics, industrial relations, and regional development. A prolific writer, Professor Bluestone is the author of over 100 articles and book chapters, dozens of articles in the popular press, and ten books, including The Deindustrialization of America (1982) with Bennett Harrison, The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring and the Polarizing of America (1988) with Bennett Harrison, Growing Prosperity: The Battle for Growth and Equity in the Twenty-first Century (2000) with Bennett Harrison and Richard Leone, and The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis (2000) with Mary Huff Stevenson.

Stuart White is a lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations, and a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University. His research interests lie in egalitarian political theory and its application to public policy. He is the author of The Civic Minimum (2003) and Equality (2006) and recently co-edited Building a Citizen Society (2008). Other recent publications include
the co-authored pamphlet, How to Defend Inheritance Tax (2008). He obtained his Ph.D from Princeton University (1995) and was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at M.I.T. (1997-1999) before taking up his current job at Oxford. He blogs regularly at Next Left (www.nextleft.org)