| Name |
Place(s)
of Residence |
Comments
|
Dobbin,
James T. |
California
(San Diego) |
- 1960 - Teacher, Henry George School
|
Doblin,
Benjamin |
New
York
(New York) |
- 1910 - Attended Single Tax Conference, New
York, NY, November
1917 - Participated in The Great Adventure conference, Atlantic
City, NJ, 13-15 April
|
Doblin,
Henry |
...
|
- 1890 - Authored a play, "The Shatchen,"
and was an active Single Taxer
|
Dodson,
Edward J.
Photograph |
New
Jersey
(Cherry Hill) |
- 1948 - Born, Pittsburgh
- 1965 - Graduated, Richland High School,
Gibsonia, Pa.
- 1970 - Early writing, "The
Laughter and the Tears
- 1972 - Photograph
- 1973 - Graduated, Shippensburg University
- 1980 - Completed courses, Henry George
School extension, Philadelphia
- 1980 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference,
New York, NY
- 1980 - Paper,
From Samuelson to
George: A Galbraithian By-Pass, September
- 1981 - Paper,
Site Value Taxation,
Its Impact Upon Productivity and Economic Stability,
written for the course Macroeconmics, Univ. of Pennsylvania,
February
- 1981 - Elected trustee, Henry George
Foundation of America
- 1981 - Participated in panel discussion on
Reaganomics, CGO conference, Franklin Pierce College, Rindge,
New Hampshire
- 1981 - Joined faculty, Henry George School
extension
- 1981 - Appointed co-editor, Equal
Rights with Frank Nelson
- 1981 - Article,
Reagan Economics: Great
Expectations, Equal Rights, Spring
- 1981 - Article,
Thomas Sowell on
Poverty, Equal Rights, Fall
- 1982 - Joined Incentive Tax League of
Delaware Valley
- 1982 - Article,
Selling The
Nation's Resources, Equal Rights, Summer
- 1982 - Wrote, "Conversations of the
Economists," presented as a reading at Henry George
Institute meeting, November 11
- 1982 - Elected Deputy Chairman, CGO
- 1982 - Letter printed proposing
establishment of an economic forecasting service, Georgist
Journal, Spring
- 1982 - Testified on behalf of LVT at Phila.
City Councl hearing, June 22
- 1982 - Article,
Long-Term Lessons in
New World's Land-Grabs, Land & Liberty,
November-December
- 1982 - Article,
'New Federalism': The
Economics of the Eighties, Greater Philadelphia
Economist, 18 October
- 1982 - Article,
A Dialogue
on Political Economy, held at a Henry George Institute
program at the Henry George School
- 1983 - Participated in program, "The
Politics of Development vs. the Economics of Peace," Earth
Day conference, Henry George School, NY, March 19
- 1984 - An
Exchange
of Ideas with John Burkhart, publisher of the Philadelphia
Business Journal, extending to 1987
- 1984 - Elected trustee, Henry George
School, NY
- 1984 - Article,
Creating a Better
Model to Solve Urban Ills, Focus, January 4
- 1984 - Article,
The March Toward Worker
Capitalism, Equal Rights, Spring
- 1984 - Article,
The
Global Concern Over Human Rights, Equal Rights,
Summer
- 1984 - Attended the CGO conference,
Pawling, NY
- 1984 - Letter printed,
Human Rights, The
Center Magazine, July/August
- 1984 - Chaired program on global debt, CGO
conference, Pawling, NY
- 1984 - Paper, "The Crisis in
International Debt," at CGO conference, Pawling, NY
- 1984 - Article,
Real Tax Reform, Equal
Rights, Fall
- 1984 - Elected trustee, HGI
- 1984 - Gave presentation on global monetary
crisis; showed film "The Money Lenders," CGO
conference, Pawling, NY
- 1985 -
Letter
to Donald McDonald, editor of The Center Magazine, 2
April, regarding the transcript of a discussion on "The
Future of Democracy"
- 1985 - Paper,
Proudhon,
Tolstoy and Henry George, presented at Henry George
Institute symposium, April 20, reprinted in Georgist Journal,
Summer
- 1985 - Reelected CGO Deputy Chairman at CGO
conference, St. Louis
- 1985 - Paper,
Dwight D.
Eisenhower's Lost Opportunity to Advance the Cause of Justice,
Temple Universities, May
- 1985 - Letter,
The British
Constitution Measured Against Moral Principle, Center
Magazine, The Center for the Study of Democratic
Institutions, July/August
- 1985 - Letter printed,
Democracy
-- A Future of Failure?, The Center Magazine,
July/August
- 1985 - Paper,
John F. Kennedy,
A Legacy of Unkept Promises or of Promise Fulfilled?,
submitted in partial completion of course requirements, U.S.
Recent History, Temple University, Summer
- 1985 - Paper,
Democracy At Risk,
a submission to the Speiser Essay Contest, August
- 1985 - Delivered paper,
Frederick
Jackson Turner and The Frontier Dichotomy, at HGI-HGS
program on land reform, November
- 1985 - Delivered talk, "The American
Frontier," at Henry George School, NY, 13 November
- 1985 - Article, "Time For a New
Foreign Policy," Equal Rights, Spring
- 1985 - Paper,
Endless Oppression,
a review of the book Endless War by James Chace, Temple
University, Summer
- 1985 - Paper,
America's
Dichotomy: Advantage Versus Equality, submitted in partial
completion of requirements for the course "The World We
Have Lost," taught by Dr. Ershkowitz, Temple University,
Fall
- 1986 - Elected President, Henry George
School, NY
- 1986 - Resigned as Deputy Chair, CGO
- 1986 - Letter,
Libertarian
Principles Ignore Private Monopoly of Nature, The
Welcomat, 23 July
- 1986 - Article, "Good Life at a High
Price," Land & Liberty, September-October
- 1986 - Article,
Long-Term
Lessons of Injustice in New World's Big Land-Grabs, Land
& Liberty, November-December
- 1986 - Letter printed,
A Just Society, The
Center Magazine, November/December
- 1987 - Article, "Why Socialism and not
Georgism Captured the Masses?" Georgist Journal,
Spring
- 1987 - Paper,
Answering
Questions of Personal Political Philosophy, submitted in
partial completion of the course "National Public Policy,"
taught by Prof. Douglas Bennett, Temple University, April
- 1987 - Paper,
Justice
Secured? Answering The Questions: What Are Our Liberties? And,
Does the U.S. Constitution Protect Them?, Unpublished
- 1987 -
Letter
from Prof. James Busey to Ed Dodson with comments on the paper,
"Answering Questions of Personal Political Philosophy
- 1987 - Article,
Seeking A Just
Society, Land & Liberty, March-April
- 1987 - Letter printed,
Level
Playing Field?, Barron's, 27 July
- 1987 - Article,
Heartland
Heartburn for U.S. Farmers, Land & Liberty,
July-August
- 1987 -
Letter,
regarding the means of overturning despotic regimes, The
Welcomat 9 December
- 1988 - Article,
Congress
Smiles on Landowners, Land & Liberty,
January-February
- 1988 - Delivered talk on homeownership at
CGO conference, Atlanta
- 1988 - Article,
The Effect
Landowners Have on the Economy, Land & Liberty,
January-February
- 1988 - Paper,
Privacy Rights, Liberty
and Original Intent, prepared for a seminar course on
Civil Rights and Liberties, Temple University, Spring
- 1988 - Article,
A
Warning Too Late, Land & Liberty, March-April,
a review of the book Declassified Eisenhower by Blance
Cook
- 1988 - Playscript,
By George! A
Dialogue Between Henry George and George Bernard Shaw
- 1988 -
Letter
to Will Carrington Heath, Assistant Professor of Economics,
Birmingham Southern College, 13 July, commenting on his article
in the American Journal of Economics and Sociology.
Response is dated 22 July
- 1988 - Paper,
Affordability
of Quality Housing, A Vital Yardstick for Measuring Wealth
Distribution and Individual Well-Being, presented at the Council
of Georgist Organization conference, Oglethorpe University,
Atlanta, Georgia, 26-31 July
- 1988 - Article, "Congress' New Housing
Bills: Government's Latest Gift to Landowners," Incentive
Taxation, August
- 1988 -
Letter
to Robert V. Andelson, 4 August, regardin the exchange with
Assistant Professor Will C. Heath, with subsequent exchanges
included
- 1988 - Article,
Legacy of the
Frontier Chaos, Land & Liberty,
September-October
- 1988 - Letter,
What
to do About Japan's Rising Land Prices, Business Month,
October
- 1988 - Letter,
Tax Unused
Land, printed in Business Month, October
- 1988 - Article,
Citizenship Rights,
Land & Liberty, November-December
- 1989 - Paper,
City Planning in a
Synergistic Environment, for the course "Great Cities
of the World," Temple University, Spring
- 1989 - Delivered talk on Henry George
School at HGI dinner, June 23
- 1989 - Moderated panel on housing issues,
Joint Georgist Conference, Philadelphia
- 1989 - Photograph
at Henry George School, Philadelphia
- 1989 - Photograph,
at Henry George School, Philadelphia, with Richard Baruto
- 1989 - Began teaching new course, Liberty
and the Just Society, at HGS extension
- 1989 - Article,
Marketing
Georgist Ideas to the Public, GroundSwell,
November/December
- 1990 - Received Masters of Liberal Arts
Degree, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.
- 1990 -
Letter,
regarding ramifications of the collapse of state-socialism
(response to Judge Lehrer), Welcomat, 21 February
- 1990 - Article,
Bust to Boom, and Back Again,
GroundSwell, March-June
- 1991 - Article,
Myth as History: Seeds of
Destruction, Land & Liberty, January-February
- 1991 - Article,
Myths Passed Off As
History, Land & Liberty, January-February
- 1991 - Article,
On
Natural Law, an Exchange of Views with Milton Rothman,
The Welcomat, October/November
- 1991 -
Letter,
regarding natural law, The Welcomat, 30 October
- 1991-92 - Letter printed, Georgist
Journal, Winter
- 1992 - Delivered paper, "Where
We Stand," on global economy at CGO conference,
Dominican Republic
- 1992 - Article, "Land
and Markets," Georgist Journal, Summer
- 1992 - Article,
Finance: A
Private Affair, Land & Liberty,
November-December
- 1993 -
Letter,
to David C. Lincoln, President of the Lincoln Foundation, 5
April, regarding past and future collaboration between Lincoln
Foundation and the Henry George School. Subsequent exchanges
included
- 1993 - Article, "A Battle for the
Hearts and Minds of Housing Advocates," Groundswell,
September-October
- 1994 - Moderated discussion,
On the
Importance of Classical Political Economy, CGO Conference,
Fairhope, Alabama
- 1995 - Article,
Free
Trade and U.S. Living Standards, July
- 1995 - Hosted panel discussion on
The Democratic
Imperative, at CGO conference, Evanston, Illinois
- 1996 - Stepped down as President, Henry
George School, NY
- 1996 - Delivered talk, "Thomas
Paine: Architect of Cooperative Individualism," HGS
extension
- 1996 - Article, "Mission
to Moscow," Henry George News, July/August
- 1996 - Article, "Georgism and Liberty
-- Objective Truth," published in The Pragmatist,
April (reprinted in GroundSwell, July-August
- 1996 - Article, "Mission
to Moscow," GroundSwell, July-August
- 1996 - Paper delivered, "Toward
a Financially Stable Future: What Russia Must Examine in the
US Experience," at Russian Duma, Moscow, April
(reprinted in GroundSwell, July-August)
- 1997 - Letter,
Thomas
Paine compared to Adam Smith, Philadelphia Inquirer,
14 April
- 1997 - Article,
Comment
on Federal funding to States at PBS Liberty and Limits, 17
June
- 1997 - Article,
Comment
on terms limits at PBS Liberty and Limits, April
- 1997 - Essay,
The Case
Against Publicly-Organized Schools, published at the
Banneker Center for Economic Justice, 6 October
- 1999 - Letter,
Compact
Cities: Tax Policy is Critical, Worldwatch Magazine,
January-February
- 1999 - Article, "They've
Tried The Rest; Hopefully They'll Finally Try the Best
(How Untaxing Philadelphians Will Make Philadelpia Great,"
GroundSwell, September-October
- 1999 - Article, "the American Creed:
Conquer and Build (and lobby for subsidies to prevent incurring
losses)," GroundSwell, September-October
- 1999 - Article, "Housing
Affordability," GroundSwell, July-August
- 1999 - Article, "Gaithersburg: Geo
Solutions Gain Momentum," Georgist Journal, Autumn
- 1999 - Article, "Smart
Growth Policies: What Some Experts Say," GroundSwell,
November-December
- 2000 - Article, "What
the Experts Want to Do to Make our Cities Livable,"
GroundSwell, January-February
- 2000 - Article,
Land Market Dynamics
Lost to Housing Analysts, GroundSwell, May-June
- 2000 - Article, "A
Philadelphia Story," GroundSwell,
September-October
- 2000 - Article, "Global
Regionalism: How Markets Really Operate Under today's
Socio-Political Institutions," GroundSwell,
November-December
- 2001 - Article, "Urban
Agriculture -- Interim Highest and Best Use," GroundSwell,
January-February
- 2001 - Letter, "Internet
Is A Poor Substitute For A Living Georgist Community,"
Land & Liberty, Spring
- 2001 - Article,
Commentary
on "The Rise and Fall of Housing's Favored Investment
Status," a paper by P. Hendershoot and M. White of the
Univ. of Aberdeen, GroundSwell, March-April
- 2001 - Article,
Henry
George and Cooperative Individualism, Fragments,
April-December
- 2001 - Article, "Making
Land More Taxable Could Reduce Property Taxes for Philadelphia
Owners," Philadelphia Public Record, May
- 2001 - Article, "How
Urban Agriculture Has Become A 'Highest and Best Use' in Some
Parts of Philadelphia," Philadelphia Public
Record, June
- 2001 - Article, "'My
principles are those of cooperative individualism'. Would
Henry George agree?," Fragments, Summer
- 2001 - Article, "Should
Bankers Care About How Municipalities, Counties and School
Districts Tax Real Estate?," GroundSwell,
May-June
- 2001 - Article, "Taxing
Community-Created Values By The Back Door," GroundSwell,
March-April
- 2001 - Article, "Some Ideas We Can
Bank On," GroundSwell, July-August
- 2001 -
Report on
International Union conference, held in Edinburgh,
Scotland, GroundSwell, July-August
- 2001 - Article,
The Law of
Unforeseen Consequences, GroundSwell,
November-December
- 2002 - Article,
My Introduction to
Henry George, January
2002 - Article, Jack
Schwartzman: A Life in Service to Liberty, January. A
slightly edited version of this essay was published in Fragments,
Spring- 2002 - Moderated two-part forum on land
value taxation at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia,
January and February
- 2002 - Article,
The Race Between
Population Growth and Ingenuity: Henry George's Early
Perspective, GroundSwell, May-June
- 2002 - Article,
How Long Will Land
Markets Continue to Spiral Upward?, GroundSwell,
July-August
- 2002 - Essay,
Are
There Too Many Homo Sapiens?, published at the Banneker
Center for Economic Justice, September
- 2003 - Article, "A Message to State
Governments in Fiscal Crisis: Adopt a Surtax on Land Values,"
GroundSwell, January-February
- 2003 - Participated in a two-day forum on
land value taxation held at the Federal Reserve Bank of
Philadelphia, February
- 2003 - Photograph
Left to right: Dede Mayers (FRB), Nic Tideman, Bruno Moser, Ed
Dodson, Sharmain Matlock-Turner (GPUAC) and Josh Vincent;
February
- 2003 - Article,
Pseudo-Scientific
Economics, The Business Cycle and a Neo-classical Mystery,
GeoPhilos, Spring
- 2003 - Review of Stephen Zarlenga's book,
The Lost
Science of Money, for the Banneker Center for Economic
Justice
- 2003 - Article,
Urban Growth
Boundaries: Do they Raise Housing Costs?, GroundSwell,
March-April
- 2003 - Article,
Measuring
Progress and Defining Success, an Addendum to Commentary
on the Georgist Movement, GroundSwell, May-June
- 2003 - Paper,
The Wealth of our Nation
and our Cities, presented at the Council of Georgist
Organizations conference, Bridgeport, CT, July
- 2003 - Paper,
Time
for Healing: The Case for Lessening the Human Footprint,
presented at the Council of Georgist Organizations conference,
Bridgeport, CT, July
- 2003 - Article,
The U.S. Housing Sector has
Pulled the Economy Along, but at Considerable Cost, and not
for Much Longer, GroundSwell, September-October
- 2003 - Article,
Owning Land:
Key to Wealth Building?, GroundSwell,
November-December
- 2003 - Letter on
Sustainability,
WorldWatch Magazine, November-December
- 2003 - Letter,
It's Not How
Many We Are, It's How We're Organized, WorldWatch
Magazine, November-December
- 2004 -
Letter,
"Keeping Cities Strong," Philadelphia Inquirer,
4 January
- 2004 - Letter,
Key
to Better School Funding is in Land Values, Philadelphia
Inquirer, 8 February
- 2004 - Article,
Dreams of Common
Ground, GroundSwell, May-June
- 2004 - Guest commentary,
On Being a 'Save the
World' Type, submitted mid-year to the Philadelphia
Inquirer. Although accepted for publication, this essay had
not appeared as of year end.
- 2004 - Letter to Anthony Wood, columnist at
the Philadelphia Inquirer,
Funding
Schools: Property Taxes versus Income Taxes, September
- 2004 - Essay,
Policy
Failures: Land Missing from the Economic Equation,
September [unpublished]
- 2004 -
Photograph, at the
Henry George School, Philadelphia, September
- 2004 - Letter to WorldWatch,
The
Link Between 'the land question' and Population Growth,
September
- 2004 - Article,
John Maynard Keynes
and 20th Century Liberalism, GroundSwell,
September-October
- 2004 - Article, "Land Repatriation?"
Equal Rights, Fall
- 2004 - Article, "Is the World Running
Out of Water?" Equal Rights, Fall
- 2004 - Posting,
A Future for the Georgist
Cause?, a Land-Theory exchange with Fred Harrison,
23 November
- 2004 - Article,
The Wealth of the
Nation, Is It In Good Hands?, GroundSwell,
November-December
- 2005 - Paper,
Paine's Return
to the Old World: the Time Between the Storms, Bulletin
of Thomas Paine Friends, Vol.6, No.1, April
- 2005 - Article,
The Cost of Living
in the U.S.A., Equal Rights, Winter/Spring
- 2005 - Article,
The Deepening Wedge,
Equal Rights, Winter
- 2005 - Article,
Common
Sense Public Policy, GroundSwell, January-February
- 2005 - Article,
The Housing
Bubble is Real and is Coming Soon to Your Part of the Country,
GroundSwell, January-February
- 2005 - Article,
Rural
America: A Story Of Absentee Land Ownership, GroundSwell,
March-April
- 2005 - Review:
A
Libertarian Historian's Analysis Ignores 'the Land Question',
of the book How Capitalism Saved America, by Thomas J.
DiLorenzo
- 2005 - Essay,
Cities of
Empty Nesters: A Reaction to Rational Expectations, March
- 2005 - Proposal,
Restructuring
of the U.S. Federal Income Tax System, submitted in April
to the President's Commission on Tax Reform
- 2005 - Essay,
Liberty is
Freedom Constrained by Justice, April
- 2005 - Essay,
A Georgist
TAke on Kelsonian Binary Economics, April
- 2005 - Article,
Urban
Growth Boundaries: Boon to Landowners, May (unpublished)
- 2005 - Paper,
The
Evolving Political Economy of Thomas Paine, presented at
the Henry George School, New York, NY, 6 May
- 2005 - Essay,
Georgism On The Eve
Of The Great Depression: Lessons For Today, May
(distributed to a select readership)
- 2005 -
Review
of the book Boom Bust: House Prices, Banking and the
Depression of 2010, by Fred Harrison
- 2005 - Article,
Where
Housing is Taking Us: A Call for Action, GroundSwell,
May-June
- 2005 - Article,
The
Environmental Consequences of Commerce on Plant and Animal
Species: Principle versus Pragmatism, July (unpublished)
- 2005 - Article,
Arizona: The
American West's Battleground Over Access to Water, July
(unpublished)
- 2005 - Letter,
The
Long History of Seeking Land-Value Tax, The Herald
(Glasgow, Scotland), 13 July
- 2005 - Letter,
Keeping
Cities Strong, Philadelphia Inquirer, 4 January.
Reprinted in GroundSwell, July-August
- 2005 - Paper,
In the
Footsteps of Thomas Paine: Francis Neilson and the Liberal
Tradition, July
- 2005 - Article,
Can
Georgists Use Psychology to Achieve a Broader Impact?,
Equal Rights, Summer
- 2005 - Article,
Not
Everyone Is Asleep at the Energy Wheel, Thankfully!, Equal
Rights, Summer
- 2005 - Article,
Rational
Behavior in an Irrational World, GroundSwell,
July-August
- 2005 - Paper,
The
Impact of Property Taxation on Housing Markets, delivered
at the Council of Georgist Organizations conference;
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 3-7 August
- 2005 - Pamphlet,
In The
Footsteps of Henry George: The Philadelphia Georgist Story,
distributed at the Council of Georgist Organizations conference;
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; August
- 2005 - Letter,
American
Experience of Seeking Fairer Taxation, The Herald
(Scotland), 19 September
- 2005 - Article,
Community
Rights vs Individual Privileges: Responding to Property
Abandonment, Equal Rights, Vol.35, No.1, Fall
- 2005 - Article,
Is Gentrification A
Threat?, GroundSwell, September-October
- 2005 - Article,
Georgism on the Eve
of the Great Depression: Lessons for Today, GroundSwell,
Fall
- 2006 - Review,
Thomas
Paine and the Times That Try Men's Souls, of Prof. Harvey
Kaye's book, Thomas Paine and the Promise of America,
Land & Liberty, Vol.112, No.1215, Winter 2005-2006
- 2006 - Letter,
Revolution
or Restoration?, Worldwatch Magazine,
January-February
- 2006 - Letter,
Land
and Privilege, WorldWatch Magazine,
January-February
- 2006 - Paper,
Physiocratie
-- The Political Economy of Benjamin Franklin, presented
at the Henry George School of Social Science, Philadelphia, PA,
4 February
- 2006 - Paper,
On Georgist
Conferences: Was the 1974 Conference on Inquiry a Model to be
Resurrected for the Future, February
- 2006 -
Review,
of the book, Wheels of Fortune, written by Fred Harrison
and published in London by the Institute of Economic Affairs,
GroundSwell, March-April
- 2006 - Article,
How Does
Manhattan Work in the Face of Escalating Land Prices?,
GroundSwell, March-April
- 2006 - Article,
Taiwan: A
Georgist Success Story?, Equal Rights, Spring
- 2006 - Article,
Henry
George and the Fabians, Equal Rights, Spring
- 2006 - Paper,
Hutchins,
Dewey and Problems Left Unresolved, April [unpublished]
- 2006 - Paper,
Chronology,
Advocating for the Common Good in the Corporate Environment,
May [unpublished]
-
In Defense
of Henry George's Remedy: The Public Appropriation of Rent,
a response to Jack O'Donnell on the Land-Theory
discussion list, May
- 2006 - Letter,
Another
Way to Blunt Tax Increases, Sun-Sentinel (Ft.
Lauderdale, Florida), 7 May
- 2006 - Article,
The
Imipact of Property Taxation on Housing Markets, GroundSwell,
May-June
- 2006 - Presentation,
Thomas Paine: Architect of
Cooperative Individualism, at Council of Georgist
Organizations conference, Evanston, IL, July
- 2006 - Paper,
Thirty Years
On, And Still Hoping to Reach an Audience, presented at
the Council of Georgist Organizations conference, Evanston,
Illinois, July
- 2006 - Article,
Why
A School of Cooperative Individualism?, July
- 2006 - Paper,
Why
the U.S. is Strategically Placed to Experience a Return to
Stagflation, prepared for the International Union
conference, London, 2-8 July (not delivered at the conference)
- 2006 - Letter, "Land Issues and
Sustainable Economic Growth," Mauritius (Africa) Times,
9 June. Reprinted in GroundSwell, July-August
- 2006 - Article,
Twenty-five
Years of Teaching Henry George's Political Economy, Progress,
July-August
- 2006 - Letter,
Reform
Tax Policy, New Jersey Courier-Post, 24 August
- 2006 - Essay,
Keep an Open
Mind, Work Hard at Whatever You Do and Life and Gete Really
Interesting, August
- 2006 - Essay,
Mission,
Objectives, Strategies and Tactics, September
- 2006 - Article,
New
Housing Units in the U.s. are Getting Bigger and Bigger. No
One Should be Surprised, GroundSwell,
September-October
- 2006 -
Review
of the book, Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and
the Birth of Modern Nations by Craig Nelson and published by
Viking Penguin. Review written in November
- 2006 - Letter,
Tax Reform That
Would be Truly Meaningful, responding to the news story, "Lawmakers
Eye Property Taxes" by Brad Bumsted, Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review, 29 November
- 2006 - Article,
Separating
Historical Fact form Fiction, commenting on the book,
Founding Myths, by Ray Raphael, Bulletin of Thomas Paine
Friends, December
- 2007 -
Raising the
Torch of Liberty, a review of Fred Harrison's book, Ricardo's
Law, published by Shepheard-Wallwyn, London
- 2007 - Article,
Taxing
Land Values is Not Just a Good Idea, it is an Urgent Necessity,
January
- 2007 -
Response
to Liver Marc Hartwich's paper, "Taxing Land Values
is Just Another Tax," published by the Institute of
Economic Affairs, 18 January
- 2007 - Essay,
A
Proposal for Meaningful tax Reform, originally written in
response to an invitation for submissions by a commission on
federal tax reform established by U.S. President George W. Bush.
Modified February
- 2007 - Letter,
Why "Housing"
Costs Climb and Climb ... then Periodically Crash, The
Independent (U.K.), 17 March
- 2007 - Letter,
Rents and
Sustainability, WorldWatch Magazine, March-April;
later reprinted in GroundSwell, July-August
- 2007 - Article,
Henry
Ware Allen and Henry George, Equal Rights, Spring
- 2007 - Article,
The
Greatest Inconvenient Trust is a First Principle, Progress,
May-June. Also available
as printed
in pdf format
- 2007 - Attended Council of Georgist
Organizations conference, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA,
July
- 2007 -
Commentary
on Michael Hudson's article, "The New Road to Serfdom,"
Harper's, May, 2006. This commentary written August,
2007
- 2007 - Letter,
Easy
Debt and the Environment, WorldWatch Magazine,
September-October
- 2007 - Essay,
Our
Right to Freedom from Religion Denied, Land &
Liberty
- 2007 - Article,
Is
Education a Public Good? If so, How Should it it be Funded?,
Equal Rights, Fall
- 2007 - Letter,
The Earth
as a Commons, or as an Aggregation of Private Enclaves,
WorldWatch Magazine, September
- 2007 - Article,
Limiting
Property Rights in the Public Interest, GroundSwell,
November-December
- 2007 - Essay,
Limiting
Property Rights in the Community Interest, December
- 2007 - Article,
Our Right to
Freedom from Religion Denied, Bulletin of Thomas Paine
Friends, December
- 2007 - Article,
Tearing
Apart the Social Fabric, Land & Liberty,
Winter
- 2008 - Paper,
From
Public to Private Domain in a Blink of an Eye, A Primer on
the Role of Land Speculation in the Expansion of the U.S. West
of the Mississippi River, unpublished, February
- 2008 - Commentary,
The
Housing Bubble of 2008, reprinted from the online
economists' forum of the Financial Times, February
- 2008 - Response,
Preventing
a Recurrence of Widespread Home Foreclosures, to a
commentary by Lawrence Summers on the Economists' Forum, Financial
Times, 3 March
- 2008 - Article,
Keynes,
Laffer and Taxes, Progress, January-February
- 2008 - Article,
Are Americans
Ready to Downsize?, Equal Rights, Spring
- 2008 - Article,
The
Greenspan Years: More Questions Than Answers, Land &
Liberty, Spring
- 2008 - Article,
The Seas and Other
Commons, Land & Liberty, Spring
- 2008 - Article,
Wind: Yet
Another Source of Wealth for the Land, Progress,
March-April
- 2008 - Paper,
The Frontier as
Destroyer of Empires: The Role of Land Hunger and Land
Speculation in Weakening Great Britain's Capacity to Rule Over
its American Colonies, unpublished, April
- 2008 - Comments,
Race,
Poverty and the Inner City -- 40 Years Later, responding
to the Bill Moyers Journal program on the legacy of the Kerner
Commission investigations into the causes of poverty and urban
unrest, 7 April
- 2008 - Commentary,
There's
Little Time left to Save Coastal Regions, E/the
Environmental Magazine, 22 April
- 2008 - Chapter 21,
Would
the Adoption of Land Value Taxation Drive Down the Price of
Land and Increase Housing Affordability?, from the book,
Reengineering Community Development for the 21st Century,
edited by Donna Fabiani and Terry F. Buss, National Academy of
Public Administration, pp. 301-308
- 2008 - Article,
Getting
to the Bottom of the Pervasiveness of Poverty, a review of
Fred Harrison's book, The Silver Bullet, Progress,
July-August
- 2008 - Article,
Fannie Mae's
Demise -- A Meltdown Long in Coming?, and unpublished
essay, September
- 2008 - Article,
Death
by Debt Strangulation, a transcript of a presentation made
to the Council of Georgist Organizations conference, Kansas
City, Missouri, 10 July. Reprinted in GroundSwell,
September-October
- 2008 - Article,
The Economic
Game is Over, Land & Liberty, Autumn
- 2008 - Article,
Have
Economists Failed to Keep Us Safe from Economic Chaos?,
Georgist Journal, Winter 2008-2009
- 2009 - Article,
Saving the
Banks from Themselves, Land & Liberty, Winter
2008-2009
- 2009 - Article, "Benjamin Franklin's
Principles of Political Economy: A Speculative Inquiry,"
International Journal of Social Economics, March
- 2009 - Article,
An
Early and Sadly Misinformed Assessment of the Soviet Planned
Economic System, comments on a Land and Freedom
editorial by Joseph Dana Miller, January-February, 1932. Written
4 June and circulated to a handful of recipients
|
Doheny,
Joan |
New
Jersey
(River Vale) |
- 2007 - Attended Council of Georgist
Organizations conference, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA,
July
|
Dohlin,
Benjamin |
New
York
(New York) |
- 1904 - Serving as President, Manhattan
Single Tax Club
- 1904 - Letter regarding Henry George, New
York Times, 27 December. Quote: "Henry
George was never in theory or fact a Socialist. So far was this
from the truth that his extreme individualist views ... were the
subjects of bitter attack by Socialists during his whole public
career."
|
Dohogne,
Leo |
Illinois
(Chicago) |
- 1992 - Serving as Auditor, U.S. Department
of Agriculture
- 1992 - Elected trustee, Henry George
School, Chicago
|
Dolan,
Thomas J. |
Ohio
(Cleveland) |
- 1928 - Co-editor, and Publisher, The
Ohio Singletaxer
|
Dolmage,
Edith |
Illinois
(Chicago) |
- 1949 - Member, Henry George Woman's Club
|
Domke,
David |
New
York
(New York) |
- 198- - Joins staff, Henry George School
- 1993 - Article, "The Physiocrats: the
First Single Taxers," Henry George Newsletter,
March/April
- 1994 - Article, "The south Sea Bubble,"
Henry George News, January/February and March/April
- 1995 - Article, "Louis F. Post:
Philosopher of Social Science," Henry George News,
May/June
- 1996 - Article, "Paine's Two
Revolutions," Henry George News, May/June
- 1999 - Article, "Reclaiming the
Commons: the Diggers and the Covenant of Earth," Henry
George News, September-October
|
Domnick,
Ruth |
New
York
(New York) |
Daughter
of Simon Levey, who campaigned for Henry George
|
Domoe,
Earl |
Ohio
(Toledo) |
- 1953 - Attended Henry George School
conference, Lakeside, Ohio; became Georgist after taking a
course in Toledo under Verlin Gordon
- 1955 - Attended Henry George Schools
conference, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH
- 1956 - Letters, Henry George News,
February, July
|
Donahue,
Susan S. |
New
York
(New York) |
- 1952 - Hired as executive secretary at Henry
George School
|
Donahoe,
Thomas J. |
Pennsylvania
(Pittsburgh) |
- 1926 - Delegate to Henry George Congress,
Philadelphia
|
Donaldson,
Grace |
New
York
(Gowanda) |
- 1927 - Active in Commonwealth Land Party
- 1930 - Letter, proposing that Georgists
support Norman Thomas and Socialists, as Thomas put the public
collection of rent at the top of his program, Land and
Freedom, January-February
|
Donaldson,
Harry W. |
Illinois
(Chicago) |
- 1931 - Elected to the board of the new
Single Tax League
- 1933 - Book, The Plutocratic Pauper
- 1936 - Member, Committee on Research
|
Donaldson,
Oren M. |
California
(Hollywood) |
- 18xx - Born, Chicago, Illinois
- 19xx - Moved to Hollywood, California
- 19xx - Pamphlet, Common Honesty
- 19xx - Published Holly Leaves for
ten years
- 1933 - Died, 3 july (age 67)
|
Donalson,
(Mrs.) |
...
|
- 1932 - Agreed to serve on the Advisory
Committee of the Henry George School, New York
|
Donlon,
P.H. |
Iowa
(Ruthven) |
- 1926 - Letter, regarding farm problems, Land
and Freedom, November-December
- 1927 - Letter, complimenting Land and
Freedom, January-February
|
Donnelly,
Joseph A. |
...
|
- 1945 - Elected President, Henry George
School, Hartford, Connecticut
|
Donovan,
John J. |
Massachusetts
(Lawrence) |
- 1890 - Serving as Secretary, Lawrence Single
Tax Club
|
Doody,
Patrick |
New
York
(New York) |
- 1886 - Serving as Chairman of the Henry
George Labor party, Third Assembly District. Quote: "He
[Henry George] is as good as elected. Fifty thousand votes will
put him in office, and the union men alone should poll more than
that number..." New York Times, 29
September
- 1888 - Led the move to expel Henry George
from the United Labor Party, May
|
Dorenkott,
Jim |
California
(San Diego) |
19--
- Joined staff of Basic Economic Education
1984 - Attended International Union conference, Cambridge, England
1987 - Article, "A World Beyond War Requires Economic Justice,"
San Diego Newsline, 21 July
1988 - Attended CGO conference, Atlanta
1989 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Philadelphia, PA
2003 - On staff of Matt Gonzalez, Green Party candidate for mayor
of San Francisco |
Dorn,
Otto K. |
New
York
(New York)
(Mt. Vernon) |
1896
- Completed economics course in Cleveland taught by Louis F. Post
1910 - Became active in effort to amend Ohio state constitution
1918 - Letter, Everyman, April, in which he wrote:
"Here's my bit for The Great
Adventure. No receipt -- save the postage."
1920 - Relocated to New York City
1930 - Appointed acting director, Henry George School
1935-1936 - Business manager, Henry George School
193- - Elected trustee, Henry George School
1937 - Serving as Secretary-Treasurer, The Freeman Corp.
1938 - Article, "Dirty Foreigners by an Imaginary Line,"
The Freeman, December
1941 - Address, "Historical Development of the Henry George
School," at Henry George School, 28 March
1945 - Reviewed Gilbert Tucker's book, The Self-Supporting City,
in Henry George News, May
1945 - Letter, regarding high fees charged by land owners to
trappers in Louisiana, Henry George News, June
1948 - Vice Presient, board of trustees, Henry George School
1954 - Hosted anniversary banquet, New York City
1958 - Died, 29 December, age 83 |
Doty,
Edward W. |
Ohio
(Cleveland) |
1912
- Owned and operated a bank; served two terms in the Ohio
legislature and as Parliamentarian for the Constitutional Convention
of 1912
190x - Active in the Single Tax movement with Tom L. Johnson |
Doubleday,
Eben Stillman
|
New
York
(Brooklyn) |
- 1926 - Delegate to Henry George Congress,
Philadelphia
- 1931 - Died, 9 May (age 91)
|
Doubleday,
Ella T. |
New
York
(Brooklyn) |
1926
- Delegate to Henry George Congress, Philadelphia |
Dougherty,
Wilma |
Illinois
(Chicago) |
1941
- Secretary to Henry George School Alumni Finance Committee |
Douglas,
Paul H. |
Illinois |
1929
- Address, on "the enlightened currents of thought in American
universities," at meeting of the Chicago Single Tax Club,
January
19-- - Elected to U.S. Senate
1966 - Appointed by Lyndon Johnson to the National Commission on
Urban Problems
1966 - Excerpts,
from the minority report of the National Commission on Urban
Problems
1966 - retired from U.S. Senate
1970 - Photograph |
Dowden,
Palmer J. Page |
California
(San Diego) |
1960
- Teacher, Henry George School |
Dowe,
W.A. |
... |
1992
- Letter, Georgist Journal, Autumn |
Dowell,
R.E. |
South
Dakota |
1911
- Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November |
Downs,
Anthony
Photograph
|
... |
199-
- Appointed Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution |
Doye,
John M. |
Colorado
(Denver) |
Profession:
printer
19xx - Became active in Single Tax movement and provided
significant financial support
1927 - Died, 30 September (age 69) |
Doyle,
Richard D. |
Indiana
(South Bend) |
1977
- Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin (was a
state representative at the time) |
Drake,
Francis |
California
|
- 1917 - Editor, The Citizen, Union
Labor's organ in Southern California
- 1917 - Letter, Everyman, October,
in which he wrote: "A few of the
uninformed may still be confused, but the heart of the people of
California, and assuredly the heart and headof Labor, are for
The Great Adventure's demand for a free and open earth. Labor is
learning that high prices and low wages rest on Land Monopoly."
1918 - Letter, Everyman, March, in which he wrote:
"Labor can be depended upon to
support the single tax amendment. We all understand its main
feature well enough: we want the land system changed and the
earth thrown open to labor."
|
Drake,
Robert |
Illinois
(Chicago)
|
- 2003 - Trustee, Henry George School, Chicago
- 2005 - Prepared a modernized version of
Progress and Poverty
- 2005 - Attended Council of Georgist
Organizations conference; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; August
- 2006 - Attended Council of Georgist
Organizations conference, Evanston, IL, July
- 2006 - Served as primary editor of a
modernized edition of Progress and Poverty
- 2007 - Attended Council of Georgist
Organizations conference, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA,
July
- 2009 - Died, 12 May
|
Dressendorfer,
J.E. |
Illinois
|
1911
- Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November |
Drew,
Daniel V. |
---
|
1930
- Delegate to Henry George Congress, San Francisco
1958 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, San Diego, CA
|
Drew,
H.W. (Mrs.) |
Iowa
(Manchester) |
1945
- Letter accompanying an order for Progress and Poverty,
Henry George News, August |
Dreyfuss,
Ralph M. |
New
York
(New York) |
1940-1964
- Teacher, Henry George School, NY
1944 - Teaching course on international trade
1953 - Member, S.A.G.E.
1959 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, NJ
1964 - Died, October 12 |
Dubin,
Joseph W. (Prof.) |
...
|
1944
- Address, "The Philosophy of Henry George," to the
Philadelphia Rationalist Society, 4 November |
DuBois,
Amalia E. |
New
Jersey
(Glen Ridge) |
Sister
of Frederick C. Leubuscher; active in National Woman Suffrage Assn.
1929 - Attended International Union conference, Edinburgh, Scotland
1940 - Donated a large quantity of literature to The School of
Democracy
1959 - died, age 99 |
DuBois,
L. (Mrs.) |
California
(San Francisco) |
1917
- Letter, Everyman, October, in which she wrote:
"The Great Adventure is in line with
evolution. I believe it will win next time. Are we afraid of
practising the Golden Rule?" |
DuBois,
S.E. (Miss) |
New
Jersey
(Bayonne) |
1929
- Attended International Union conference, Edinburgh, Scotland |
DuBois,
William Bradford |
New
Jersey
(Bayonne) |
18xx
- born, Saugerties, New York
1890 - Serving as Chairman, Bayonne Single Tax Committee
1928 - Died, 17 June (age 74) |
Dudderar,
Thomas D. |
New
Jersey |
1944
- Taught Science of Political Economy, Dover |
Duddon,
Arthur P. |
Pennsylvania
(Bryn Mawr) |
Profession:
Professor of History, Bryn Mawr College
19-- - Book, Joseph Fels and the Single Tax |
Duffy,
Clarence E. (Father) |
...
|
1952
- Address, "Not Without Honor" delivered at grave of Henry
George, 1 November; printed in Henry George News, December
|
Duffy,
James |
Michigan
(Saginaw) |
1890
- Serving as Secretary, Saginaw Single Tax Club |
Dunaway,
Samuel W. |
California
(San Diego) |
1958
- Attended Henry George Schools conference, San Diego, CA
|
Duncan,
George H. |
New
Hampshire
(East Jaffrey)
Massachusetts
(Boston) |
- 1876 - Born, Leominster, Massachusetts, 23
6December; family soon moved to New Hampshire (where his father
opened a drug store)
- 1890s - Attended Amherst College (in 1939
he was awarded an honorary degree)
- 1904 - Elected Selectman of Jaffrey, NH;
duties included property assessment. He began a study of
economics on his own, during which he read Henry George's books
- 1912 - Led the effort to pass initative and
referendum, which failed
- 1925 - Began lecturing in U.S. and Canada
for the Henry George Lecture Association, thru 1930
- 1926 - Candidate for Democratic nomination
for Congress and state legislature at the same tiime; re-elected
to the New Hampshire legislature
- 1926 - Elected to the National Advisory
Committee of the Henry George Foundation of America
- 1927 - Address, before the State Normal
School of New Jersey, 4 December (650 students attending)
- 1927 - Address, "Practical Progress in
Rational Taxation," at the Henry George Congress, New York,
September
- 1927 - Began speaking tour in November (New
Orleans, Los Angeles, British Columbia, Salt Lake City, Denver,
Kansas City, etc.)
- 1929 - Address, on progress toward adoption
of the Single Tax, at Chicago Single Tax Club, January
- 1930 - Participated in the fifth N.E.
conference, Boston, 21-23 November
- 1931 - Referred to in news article, Time
magazine; 9 February, as supporting "the old tax-revision
program"
- 19-- - Serving as Secretary, New Hampshire
Single Tax League
- 1935 - Contributed to the founding of the
Henry George School, Boston
- 1936 - Working with Resettlement
Administration
- 1936 - Donated bound volumes of The
Public from June 1909 to the final issue in 1919, to the
Henry George School, NY
- 1937 - Taught Henry George class in
Peterboro
- 1937 - Photograph
- 1938 - Re-elected to the New Hampshire
legislature
- 1949 - Participating in the Henry George
Foundation of America Congress, Philadelphia, PA, September
- 1954 - Book, People, Land and Taxes
- 1958 - died, September 21
|
Duncan,
Ina W. |
California
(San Diego) |
1958
- Attended Henry George Schools conference, San Diego, CA
|
Duncan,
Raymond |
...
|
1950
- Article, "On Turning to the Right," Henry George
News, January
|
Dunham,
Howard C. |
California
(San Diego) |
1917
- Serving as President, San Diego Single Tax Society |
Dunham,
Lawrence |
Connecticut
|
1890
- Attended National Conference of Single Tax Clubs, Cooper Union,
New York City, September |
duPont,
Francis I. |
Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia) |
- 1931 - Attended Single Tax dinner, where
Percy Williams was the main speaker
|
Durham,
Lucy |
California
|
1928
- Participated in a State Conference for Economic Research,
Pasadena, California, 8 July |
Dunne,
E.T. |
New
York
(Binghampton) |
19--
- Serving as Secretary, Broome County Single Tax Club |
Dunsing,
William J. |
New
York
(New York) |
1954
- Letters, Henry George News, April and July; regarding
credit system and money debate
1957 - Member faculty, Henry George School |
Dunwiddy,
Priscilla |
New
York
(New York) |
1952
- Began writing column, "The Spirit of Henry George," Henry
George News
1953 - Letter, Henry George News, March |
duPont,
Antoine B. |
OHIO
(Cleveland) |
1865 - Born, Louisville (great-grandson of Elenthere Irenee duPont
deNemours
18xx - Attended school in Boston
1883 - Under the influence of Tom L. Johnson began to advocate the
Single Tax; met Henry George
1885 - Graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New
York with a degree in civil and electrical engineering
1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
1911 - Became treasurer of the Joseph Fels Fund
1919 - Died, 11 April (after contracting the flu) |
duPont,
Biederman |
...
|
1917
- Participated in The Great Adventure conference, Atlantic City, NJ,
13-15 April |
duPont,
Francis I. |
New
York
(New York) |
1936
- Exchanged
letters
with Spencer Heath, 29 June |
Duris,
Alex J. |
South
Carolina
(Greensboro)
North Carolina
(Hendersonville) |
1930s
- Attended Henry George School conference, New York, NY
1942 - Letter, regarding how to promote Henry George course, The
Freeman, October
1945 - Letter, regarding land speculation at the end of war and
impact on returning soldiers, Henry George News, May
1956 - Letter, Henry George News, March
1957 - Requested Land and Liberty be sent to local tax
collectors and politicians
1987 - Died |
Durning,
Alan Thein
(with Yoram Bauman) |
... |
1998
- Book, Tax Shift, published, Northwest Environment Watch,
Seattle |
Dutton,
Glen |
...
|
1955
- Article, "The Parent Discipline," Henry George News,
May |
Duxbury,
Minnie Mackay |
California
(San Francisco) |
1917
- Letter, in support of The Great Adventure campaign, Everyman,
October |
Duxbury,
Norman |
California
(San Francisco) |
1917
- Letter, Everyman, October, in which he wrote:
"The Great Adventure bill is not too
drastic, but too mild. I want the full rental value demanded. I have
no sympathy with the Equity reformers. They only retard."
|
Dybergh,
Richard |
California
(San Francisco) |
1918
- Letter, Everyman, March, in which he wrote:
"The patriotic argument for the
enactment of single tax is timely, true, and will surely win."
|
Dykstra,
Clarence A. |
...
|
1883
- Born, Cleveland, Ohio
1903 - Graduated, State University of Iowa
1907 - Began teaching U.S. history, then political science
1918 - Began working with municipal reform groups in Cleveland,
Chicago, then Los Angeles
1923 - Prof. of municipal administration, University of California
1930 - Appointed city manager, Cincinnati, Ohio
1937 - Appointed President, University of Wisconsin
1944 - Resigned from the University of Wisconsin
1942 - Met with Margaret Bateman of the Henry George School to
discuss conducting Henry George classes over the university's
College of the Air
1950 - Died, 7 May |
Dyson,
Bert |
Minnesota
(St. Paul) |
1989
- Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Philadelphia, PA
|
Dyson,
Elizabeth |
Minnesota
(St. Paul) |
1989
- Attended Joing Georgist Conference, Philadelphia, PA
|
Dyson,
R.F. |
...
|
19--
- Article, Land Rnet, Chapter
VI from a book not yet identified
|
Dyson,
Sam |
...
|
1955
- Serving as President, Fairhope Single Tax Corp. |
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