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16 Facts About Thomas Naylor

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Thomas Herbert Naylor was an American economist and professor.

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Thomas Naylor graduated from Millsaps College with a Bachelor of Science in 1958 and a second one from Columbia University in Industrial Engineering in 1959.

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Thomas Naylor received a master's degree in business from Indiana University in 1961 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from Tulane University in 1964.

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Thomas Naylor began his career at Duke University as an assistant professor of economics in 1964, teaching economics, management science, and computer science, ending his career there in 1993.

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Thomas Naylor served as a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin, Middlebury College and the University of Vermont.

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Thomas Naylor was an international management consultant advising major corporations and governments in over thirty countries.

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Thomas Naylor left business and turned to political analysis after trips to the Soviet Union in the 1980s which led him to publicly predicted future political changes there.

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Thomas Naylor's articles appeared in The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, and Business Week.

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Thomas Naylor has made appearances on major American television networks as well as CNN, Fox News, BBC and National Public Radio.

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In 1997, Naylor published with William H Willimon Downsizing the USA, which called for Vermont independence.

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Thomas Naylor began informal meetings of the Second Vermont Republic, holding the first statewide meeting in October 2003.

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Thomas Naylor was mentioned prominently in reporting of the secessionist conferences of many of the same groups in 2006 in Burlington, Vermont.

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In 2007, Thomas Naylor was criticized when it was alleged that some advisory board members had affiliations with Neo-Confederate groups, such as the League of the South.

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Thomas Naylor told The Vermont Guardian that the organization has no direct link to LOS, except a link on the SVR website, and that SVR is not racist.

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Dr Thomas Naylor has made a persuasive case of the identical response to today's 'train of abuses' that led the Founders to secede from King George's tyranny.

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Thomas Naylor died on December 12,2012, in Burlington, Vermont, at the age of 76, a few days after suffering a stroke.