WYN CARTER ACHENBAUM.
Wyn Carter Achenbaum, M.B.A.; Late-blooming grandchild of 3 Georgists. Websites: wealthandwant.com, thesingletax.com and whatwouldjesustax.com; blog: LVTfan.typepad.com.
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RICHARD L. BIDDLE.
Richard L. Biddle became a member of the board of the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation in 2004. He is a Californian resident.
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EDWARD J. DODSON.
Edward J. Dodson retired in 2005 from Fannie Mae, where he held various management and analyst positions. He joined Fannie Mae in 1984 after managing the residential mortgage lending program for a Philadelphia-based regional commercial bank. Ed has served on the boards of the Henry George School of Social Science and the Henry George Foundation of America and currently serves on the board of Thomas Paine Friends. In 1997 he founded the online education and research project, the School of Cooperative Individualism (www.cooperativeindividualism.org). He is the author of the book, ‘The Discovery of First Principles‘ and many articles on history, economics and related subjects. He completed his undergraduate work at Shippensburg University and earned a Master of Liberal Arts degree from Temple University. He currently lectures on political economy at Temple University’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and at the Philadelphia extension of the Henry George School of Social Science.
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GREGG ERICKSON.
Economist and journalist, Gregg Erickson was raised in Anchorage and is a 35-year Juneau resident. After a stint at the University of Alaska’s Institute of Social and Economic Research he took an appointment as a research fellow with Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C., think-tank, and later joined the staff of the U.S. Senate Energy Committee.Gregg returned to Alaska in 1976 as the Alaska Legislature’s director of research.
In 1984 he joined the office of Alaska’s governor, where he served as senior economist under two governors. Following the Exxon Valdez oil spill he was tapped to lead the state’s oil spill restoration and impact assessment efforts.In 1991, Gregg opened his economic consulting firm, Erickson & Associates. In the same year he and his spouse, Judith Erickson, founded the Alaska Budget Report, a newsletter with which he remains editor-at-large. In 1997 the couple received the American Civil Liberties Union Liberty award for “outstanding contributions to defend the right to public information.” In 2009 they were additionally honored with the Alaska Press Club’s “Howard Rock-Tom Snapp First Amendment Award.”
Erickson maintains his economic consulting practice, and frequently testifies as an expert in state and federal courts (see www.EricksonEconomics.com). He is the co-author of Mining and Public Policy in Alaska, the editor of two other books on economic issues, and the author or co-author of more than 160 articles, papers and monographs on Alaska economics, public finance and fiscal policy issues. He has a longstanding interest in the history and economics of resource based basic income grants. He is the author or co-author of three chapters in the forthcoming Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend: Examining its Suitability as a Model (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming March 2012).
Erickson joined the RSF board in 2000, and served three terms as the foundation’s treasurer and chair of its investment committee. He currently serves on the RSF Executive Committee, the Investment Committee and as a trustee of the RSF employee pension fund. His affiliations include• American Academy of Economic and Financial Experts• American Economics Association• Association of Geoclassical Studies (board member)• Juneau Symphony Foundation (president)• National Association of Forensic Economists• Southern Economic Association• Western Economic Association International.
Erickson can be reached at gerickso@alaska.com
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Quisia D. Gonzalez, M.D.
Dr. Quisia Gonzalez became a member of the board of the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation in 2010. She lives in New York City.
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DAMON J. GROSS, Ph.D.
Damon J. Gross is a software analyst, philosophy teacher, engineer, and board member of Common Ground-USA.
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J. TED GWARTNEY, M.A.I.
J.Ted Gwartney, is retired Assessor of Greenwich, CT, current President of The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, and former Executive Director of the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation.
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DREW L. HARRIS, Ph. D.
Drew L. Harris, is a Professor of Management, Longwood College, Farmville, VA.
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ALANNA HARTZOK.
Alanna Hartzok is RSF International Liaison to the United Nations Non-Governmental Organizations and other reform organizations around the world.
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GILBERT HERMAN.
Gilbert Herman earned a BA degree from CCNY, New York and worked in the information technology field for over 25 years. In addition to his service on the RSF Board he serves on the Board of Trustees of the Henry George School of Social Science (New York) as Secretary and on the Board of Directors of the Henry George Institute. He has been a long time correspondence teacher for the Henry George Institute.
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CAY HEHNER, Ph.D.
Cay Hehner teaches Social Science and Interdisciplinary Studies at the New York Institute of Technology. He is on the Board of Trustees of the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation since 2009, in advisory capacity since 2007. He has been working as Director of Education at the Henry George School of Social Science, New York, from 2004 to 2012, where he was an instructor under George Collins in the 1990s. Upon recommendation of Bruce Oatman he was hired as director.
Hehner holds a Master’s degree in Economics with a thesis on the Economic Essays of David Hume and a Ph. D. in Philosophy (History of Ideas) on the Ideological Origin of the Holocaust and the Intellectual Resistance against the Nazis. He worked as a radio journalist, producing, among others, an eye-witness program on the Fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, and in the decade following shows on Henry George, Fritz Lang, and Bernard Shaw. He also hosted interviews with conductor Kurt Masur, writers Paul Auster, Harold Brodkey, Paul Theroux, David Baldacci, wildlife-expert Leonard Lee Rue, and produced shows on treasure hunting and underwater archeology for the Discovery Channel and similar outlets.
He has been practicing and teaching the martial art of Aikido under Tamura Shihan and Yamada Shihan for many years. Following his father Claus Hehner, a gold-medal winning yachtsman and single-handed sailor, he has crossed the Atlanticdouble-handed twice in a 35 ft. sloop and sailed the Round Britain Race as the then youngest competitor in 1974, racing against Francis Chichester and Robin Knox-Johnson. He ran English language schools in various countries, and was Associate Professor of Environmental Economics at the Technical University of Berlin in 2003/2004.
In speech, action, and writing he has been promoting the Georgist agenda for decades, lately on Conversations with Harold Channer (Manhattan Neighborhood Network), the Talk Show with James Chlatek (Manhattan cable), the Talk Show of Jim Wrathall, (PBS West Coast) and the Joey Reynolds Show (N.Y.C. Radio). Cay Hehner has been living and working in New York City since the early 1990s. He can be reached at chehner@nyit.edu or karryskanda@gmail.com
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BRENDAN HENNIGAN.
Brendan Hennigan writes: “I first became acquainted with the writings of Henry George through taking a political philosophy course being offered at Dominican University College in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I was attracted to Henry George’s natural right social philosophy concerning the Land Question and his insistence that ordinary people can understand the fundamentals of political economy. This motivated me to write my master degree thesis on “Justice and Property in Land: Comparison of Henry George’s Economic Theory of Justice With the Catholic Church Social Teachings. I am a PhD candidate at Dominican University College in Ottawa and my thesis research is on the development of late medieval Just Price and Just Wage theory in Spain’s school of Salamanca and its contribution to Austrian school of Economics.”
Brendan was born and raised in Selby, Yorkshire, England. Selby is located between the old industrial heartland of the belt of Leeds and the rural setting of York and the North Riding. Selby is noted for it Norman Abbey church, which dates back to 1069AD. Selby was a thriving market town. In recent years it has suffered from loss of its economic base. The shipyard, animal food products, sugar beet factory, bacon factory, flourmill have all closed down. Brendan has over 30 years experience in television broadcasting. He is a freelance videographer and teacher. He and his wife Susan live in Ottawa’s CentreTown. bhennigan@magma.ca
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FRANK DE JONG.
Frank de Jong was born to Dutch immigrant parents and grew up on a dairy farm north of Guelph, Ontario. He went on to earn degrees at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Ottawa. As an activist in the 80’s, de Jong was involved in various campaigns: the preservation of Ontario’s old growth forests; opposing nuclear weapons and nuclear power; lobbying to end conflicts in Central America; and the pro-choice movement.
As leader of the Green Party of Ontario from 1993 to 2009, de Jong significantly raised the profile of the party, (achieving 8.3% of the vote in 2007). He has continued to argue for green tax-shifting; renewable energy; preventive health care; minimal tuition; walk-able communities; the end of funding for religious schools; and zero garbage. Since 2000, he has written extensively and become an international speaker on the economic theories of the 19th century American economist Henry George: financing government through economic rent capture in lieu of income and consumption taxation.
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BRIAN KELLY.
Brian Kelly is a Master’s Candidate at the University of Vermont, where he is a Graduate Student Fellow at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics. He is a Teaching Assistant for courses that have included the Principles of Community Economic Development, Economics of Sustainability, and Ecological Economics. His current research centers around groundwater governance issues, common assets, and monetary and fiscal policy for a steady state economy.
Prior to his current life in Burlington, VT, Brian spent twelve years in Philadelphia. Here, he received his B.S. Economics from the Wharton Business School, and has worked as a community economic development practitioner and consultant in Philadelphia for seven years. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of NET CDC, and as a Board Member of the Village of the Arts and Humanities. In 2009-2010, Brian served as an instructor at the Henry George School and Birthplace Museum.
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FRANCIS K. PEDDLE, Ph.D.
Francis K. Peddle, J.D., Ph.D., is currently Vice-President – Academic Affairs at the Dominican University College, Ottawa, Canada and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy. He is a barrister and solicitor and has been a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada for over twenty years. He has appeared before numerous tax commissions and task forces, most notably the Bédard Commission (Montreal,1999), as well as the Federal and Ontario Courts of Appeal, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Tax Court of Canada and the Assessment Review Board.
From 2006 to 2011 Peddle was the Deputy Editor of the International Journal of Social Economics. In April, 2009 the journal published, with Peddle as Guest Editor, a Special Issue entitled “Henry George as Social Economist and Radical Reformer.” He is the author of Cities and Greed: Taxes, Inflation and Land Speculation (1994), Henry George and the End of Tax Commissions (1995). More recent publications include “Distributism and Marginal Productivity,” Science et Esprit, Vol. 63/3 (2011) and The Poverty Paradox (2011) which is an anthology of writings on the relation between economic rent and poverty. fpeddle@bellnet.ca
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WILLIAM S. PEIRCE, Ph.D.
William S. Peirce, is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Case Western Reserve University, where he taught from 1966 to 2001. He received an A.B. from Harvard in 1960, studied for two years at the American Institute for Economic Research, and earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 1966.
Peirce has taught and written widely in areas including Public Finance, Energy and Natural Resources, and Technological Innovation. A recent paper dealt with, “Natural Resources and Natural Law: Religion and the Design of Tax Policy.” Peirce was the Libertarian candidate for Governor of Ohio in 2006 with a platform that included exemption of buildings from the local property tax. Email: William.Peirce@sbcglobal.net.
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JOHN M. POLIMENI, M.A.
John M. Polimeni is an Associate Professor of Economics. He received a Ph.D. in Ecological Economics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a M.S. in Financial Economics with a Certificate of Graduate Studies in Regulatory Economics from SUNY at Albany, and a B.S. in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In addition, he has been a Senior Fulbright Fellow and is a Honorary Member of the Scientific Council of the Romanian National Academy of Science: National Institute for Economic Research, Institute of Economic Forecasting.
Polimeni has published more than 40 academic journal articles, nine book chapters, and two books with another forthcoming. He has given 40 podium presentations at international conferences and been invited to present research on 20 occasions. He serves on the editorial board of 4 academic journals. His research interests are in economic development, energy economics, and ecological economics.” after “M.A.”
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NICHOLAS ROSEN, Ph.D.
Nicholas Rosen read Progress and Poverty as a teenager, did some further reading on the topic, and became a convinced Georgist. He went on to be graduated from high school at the age of fifteen, to earn a B.S. in Physics and a Ph.D. in Materials, and to end up working for the U.S. Patent Office, which is not responsible for his extracurricular opinions and activities.
Rosen is a Georgist tutor for the Henry George Institute, on whose board he now serves; he is also a long-time director of the Center for the Study of Economics, and a relatively new addition to the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation’s board. He reads books, takes walks, and mostly leads a quiet life. back
MARK A. SULLIVAN.
Mark A. Sullivan is Secretary and Administrative Director of the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation. He studied fine arts at Rhode Island School of Design, social science at Western Connecticut State College (now University), and political economy at the New School for Social Research. He joined the RSF staff in 1992. Prior to this, he maintained the research library, taught classes, and edited the newsletter of the Henry George School of Social Science in New York City.
Sullivan currently serves as Secretary-Treasurer of The American Journal of Economics and Sociology and as a board member and Treasurer of the Henry George Institute. He participates in nonprofit organizations and projects in publishing, spirituality, and the performing arts. He is a former President of the Council of Georgist Organizations. He lives in the Bronx, New York City. His e-mail address is msullivan@schalkenbach.org
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ADELE WICK.
Adele Wick earned her M.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago. She is a freelance edito, former instructor of economics, and former Assistant Director of Murphy Institute, at Tulane University.
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