Shira Boss author of Green with Envy: Why Keeping Up with the Joneses Is Keeping Us in Debt has a bachelor’s degree in economics and master’s degrees in journalism and international affairs from Columbia University. Boss grew up in Flint, Michigan, and has lived in St. Petersburg, Russia; Paris, France; and the Middle East. In addition to years as an independent financial journalist, Boss has worked as a cultural editor for an English-language newspaper and as a foreign correspondent. Boss has contributed to The New York Times, the New York Post, Good Housekeeping and The Christian Science Monitor, and to Forbes.com, and an online journal of The Economist.

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