Pavlina R. Tcherneva is visiting faculty at Bard College. She was previously the associate director for economic analysis of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, University of Missouri–Kansas City, where she remains a research associate. She was also visiting scholar at the Centre for Economic and Public Policy at the University of Cambridge (Summer 2004). Tcherneva has a B.A. in mathematics and economics (honors) from Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, and an M.A. in economics from the University of Missouri–Kansas City, where she is currently a Ph.D. candidate. She researches the feasibility of universal guarantee policies under different currency regimes; specifically, Argentina’s experience with direct-job creation. She has collaborated with policymakers from Argentina, Bulgaria, China, Turkey and the United States and has published in the International Journal of Environment, Workplace, and Employment; Rutgers Journal of Law and Urban Policy, and Oeconomicus. Tcherneva is the coeditor of Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey (Elgar 2004).