[1 October
2007]
Review Ed Dodson's updated
presentation on the nature of the businesss cycle and the stresses
being the world's economies closer and closer to a severe economic
downturn.
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[7 September, 2007]
My prayer:
"Dear Lord, please send a flash of lightning and a clap of
thunder to remind anyone not again to use the terms "state
interference" or "intervention" as though these
were novelties in U.S. history. Remind them that all land titles
hark back to state interference. Remind them of the Puritan and
Quaker and Mormon theocracies, Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana,
Jackson's distribution of Federal surpluses to the states, The
Emancipation Proclamation and ensuing Amendments, the railroad
land grants and other tendentious corrupted land laws, many
watershed decisions of the USSC, etc. Call it 'Divine Intervention
to preclude the inappropriate locution of intervention'. Amen."
[Mason Gaffney]
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[7 January,
2007]
Author Fred Harrison
continues his critical analysis of societal organization, this
time in a new book titled Ricardo's Law. Harrison traces
the origins of entrenched privilege and describes in considerable
detail the failed attempts to mitigate the worst consequences of
monopolistic privilege. This is a story of failed policies and
flawed principles. SCI Director Ed Dodson provides a review of
this important addition to Fred Harrison's series of penetrating
books on the human condition.
... Reviews of Harrison's earlier
books, Boom Bust: House Prices, Banking and the Depression of
2010, and Wheels of Fortune (published by
The Institute of Economic Affairs
in London) are also available.

ORDER Ricardo's
Law and Boom Bust in the United Kingdom from
Shepheard-Walwyn
-- in the United States from Independent
Publishers Group -- and in Australia from
John Reed Books.
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[4 November 2006]
A new biography on Thomas
Paine, written by Craig Nelson, has been published. Read Ed
Dodson's review of this addition to the recent volumes on our
founding philosopher of cooperative individualism.
... Thomas Paine and the Promise
of America, by Professor Harvey Kaye, Director of the Center
for History and Social Change, University of Wisconsin. If you
have not already done so, you might want to read this review as
well:
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[25 August 2006]
Volumes I and II of The
Discovery of First Principles, published by iUniverse are
available for purchase from the publisher,
iUniverse and other retail
book sellers. The INTRODUCTION
to the first volume has long been available to visitors of the
School of Cooperative Individualism.
... NOW, the third volume of this
book is being made available on-line at no cost. The volume's six
chapters are each divided into four separate sections that can be
read on-line or printed for later reading. Begin reading now.
CHAPTER
ONE.
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[10 August
2006]
At the end of 2004, SCI's
director, Ed Dodson, retired after twenty years with the U.S. GSE
(Government Sponsored Entity) Fannie Mae, where he worked as a
business manger in the Housing & Community Development
division. During the last few years before his retirement, Ed was
instrumental in gaining support from key members of his company's
management team to educate stakeholder groups about the problems
associated with how revenue is raised by the taxation of real
estate. To facilitate these discussions, Ed prepared a Powerpoint
presentation on the subject recently given the new title:
SAVING COMMUNITIES. You are
invited to review this presentation and encouraged to use it to
help you make the case for a shift to a land-only property tax
base for your community.
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