ROBERT B. HUDSON is Professor of Social Policy at Boston University. Among the world's leading authorities on the politics and economics of aging, he is the author of dozens of articles, book chapters, reports, and presentations on aging and public policy. He is the editor of The New Politics of Old Age Policy, and he currently serves as editor-in-chief of Public Policy & Aging Report, the quarterly publication of the National Academy on an Aging Society. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.