Andrew Mason

Andrew Mason is Professor of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa and Senior Fellow at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a member of the Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA) at the University of California, Berkeley. Mason and Ron Lee co-founded the National Transfer Accounts (www.ntaccounts.org) network, an international effort involving teams from over seventy countries developing and applying a comprehensive approach to measuring and studying the generational economy. Mason has authored or co-authored more than 100 journal articles and book chapters and co-authored or co-edited more than twenty- five books and monographs including Population Aging and the Generational Economy: A Global Perspective, a finalist for the Paul A. Samuelson Award and selected as an Outstanding Academic Publication by Choice Magazine. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.