 Salamon has written or edited over 20 books in addition to hundreds of articles, monographs and chapters that have appeared in "Foreign Affairs", the "New York Times", "Voluntas", and numerous other publications.He was a pioneer in the empirical study of the nonprofit sector in the United States, and is considered by many experts in his field to be a leading specialist on alternative tools of government action and on the nonprofit sector in the U.S. and around the world.Salamon graduated with a bachelor's degree in Economics and Policy Studies from Princeton University in 1964 and earned a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in 1971.