John T. Dalton is a bibliophile, scholar, and professor of economics at Wake Forest University. He earned his B.A. in International Studies and German Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota. He studied as a Fulbright Scholar in Vienna, Austria. His research has appeared in numerous academic journals such as the Journal of International Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Southern Economic Journal, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Journal of Economic Education, and many others. Dalton has been a visiting scholar at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Institute for Empirical Macroeconomics at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.