Dr. Fred E. Foldvary
1920 Cedar St.
Berkeley, CA 94709
Telephone: 510/843-0248
FAX: 510/295-0604
e-mail: foldvary@pobox.com
Dr. Foldvary is presently a Professor of Economics at
John F. Kennedy University, Walnut Creek, California.
A Ph.D. in Economics, the science is both his profession
and his interest.
He has published several books and numerous
articles in the field including: The Soul of Liberty, Public
Goods and Private Communities, Beyond Classical Economics, The
Business Cycle: A Georgist-Austrian Synthesis, Poverty and the
Theory of
Wages, and much more.
He has addressed audiences from students to businessmen, and from
educators to legislators on Economics, Human Rights, Real Estate,
Tax
Reform, Social Ethics, Global Economy and Business Cycles.
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Claude W. and Dian S. Arnold
9263 Morphy Ave.
Fairhope, AL 36532
Tel: 334/ 928-7668
e-mail: 102061.3371@compuserve.com
These two don't "team-preach", but they both know their
subjects well. Claude served throughout the 2nd World
War, and
then returned home to buy a business in Fairhope from a
land-surveyor. He
studied, received a degree in Civil Engineering, and became a
registered
surveyor. Since that time he has operated his own business, and
helped raise
13 children.
Claude is well
received
by both State representatives and the Governor.
Mrs. Arnold describes herself as a housewife, an educator, a
horse trainer,
and a handi-woman, and her life certainly reflects that variety,
both in the
past and in the present. Five of her six children have been
educated at home.
The subjects these folks can speak on are many: Site Value
Taxation, It's Time to Do Something
About Poverty, Continuing Education is the Hope of the Future, and others.
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Harry Ball-Wilson
2345 Ala Wai Blvd. (Apt. 2714)
Honolulu, Hawaii 96815
Tel: 808/923-7794
e-mail: 74217.3055@compuserve.com
Mr. Ball-Wilson is the Coordinator of the Economic
Commission for the World Government of World
Citizens. He is a member of the NGO
Electoral
Reform Society of Great Britain and Ireland, NGO International
Georgist
Movement, and the UK New Economic Foundation.
Mr. Ball-Wilson has been a UK Liberal Party Parliamentary
Candidate
several times. He has
been. Chairman of Participation Consultants, Ltd. for sixteen
years, and
Leader of the UK Ass. Lib. Trade Unionists for sixteen years
during which
period he published a bimonthly newspaper, the United.
Mr. Ball-Wilson has had occasion to address a number of groups, of
all sorts, from the floor of union halls to the halls of the
Parliament of the
United Kingdom. The subjects he prefers are Voting Reform, and Land and Tax Reform.
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H. William Batt, Ph.D.
P.O. Box 4112 Fax: 5i8/462-3921
Patroon Station
Albany, NY 12204
Tel: 518 / 462-5068
e-mail: HWBatt@yahoo.com
Dr. Batt has experience in teaching, consulting, and in
administration. He is Executive and
Principal Researcher of the Central Research Group, Inc., a
research and educational organization with
focus on sustainable economic development, livability,
transportation and
land use, environmental impacts and tax policy.
Dr. Batt's experience includes: Staff Political Scientist, New York State
Legislative
Tax Study Commission; Asst. Research Director, New York State
Legislative Commission on Critical Transportation Choices.
In addition, Dr. Batt has been the consultant for a number of
studies
for both private an public institutions including the AARP.
His
speaking
experience includes both national and community groups as well as
business
and governmental bodies.
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Mike Curtis
1701 Green Ln.
Arden, DE 19810
Mike Curtis lives in the Village of Arden, Delaware, one of the
3 Ardens, which are bedroom communities of Wilmington.
In these communities only land values are taxed to
provide property tax revenues for the villages themselves, the
county and the school
district. Mr. Curtis was elected several times to Arden's Volunteer
Board of Directors.
Mike is a teacher. He has taught both high-school students
and senior
citizens. He has taught in upper middle class communities, and in
the heart of North
Philladelphia. Some of his students were
inmates in the
Delaware prison system.
Among Mr. Curtis' papers are "The Cause and the Law of Interest" and "The Speculative
Price of Land
and the Business Cycle." He has also authored two pamphlets in
recent years,
"Political Economy" and "The
Urban Dilemma."
Mr. Curtis is an accomplished speaker on the subjects of, The
Urban
Dilemma, The Cause of Recession, The Analysis of Henry George and
The Village
of Arden, a Georgist Community.
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Ted Gwartney, MAI
17 Dowsing Place
Amityville, New York, 11701
Tel hm: 516 691-0956
Fax hm: 516 691-0952
Tel wk: 212 988-1680
Fax wk: 212 988-1687
e-mail Tgwartney@aol.com
Mr. Gwartney is the Executive Director of the Robert
Schalkenbach Foundation. He has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, a
Management diploma from the Institute of Technology, Burnaby,
British
Columbia, an Appraisal Certificate from UCLA, and has had long experience in the
field of
land valuation, analysis, assessment, consultation and management.
Mr. Gwartney has been the City Assessor of Southfield, Michigan, where he
completed a revaluation of all land parcels by a systematic
computer analysis
of zoning, location and land use function. He was the Assessment Commissioner and Chief
Executive Officer of the British Columbia Assessment Authority.
Mr. Gwartney has written extensively on City Planning, Financing Ecological
Preservation and Renewal, the Techniques of Land Evaluation,
Computer
Applications in Land Appraisal and many other matters in this
field.
Mr. Gwartney has been a lecturer and instructor with experience
before all manner of public bodies including many in Russia,
Estonia and
Jamaica. He is ready to speak on subjects such as: The Excessive Burden of
Taxation, An Alternative Revenue Source, How to Improve Land
Assessments, The Origin of Community Revenue, Land Assessment
Techniques and most other related subjects.
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Alanna K. Hartzok, M.A.
Ms. Hartzok is currently: The United States Represent-
tative for the International Union for Land Value Taxation, the State Coordinator for the Pennsylvania Fair Tax
Coalition, the
Executive Director of Earth Rights Institute, the Secretary of
the Council of
Georgist Organizations, Co-Chair, Housing Task Force, Greater
Chambersburg 2000 Partnership, and a psychotherapist practitioner in
private practice.
Hartzok's published articles include several items in the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Financing Planet
Management: Sovereignty, World Order, and the Earth Rights
Imperative,
published by the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation and translated
into both
Danish and Russian, and many more.
Ms. Hartzok's abilities as a public speaker have brought her
before the
United Nations, the Pennsylvania Legislature, the NGO Forums at
the UN
Habitat II Conference in Istanbul, the Harvard Club of New York,
numerous
universities and public forums. She was featured in a television
series and has co-produced weekly radio programs for KEST and KFAX radio
stations in
San Francisco.
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Peter Meakin
#4 Violet Rd
Claremont, 7700
South Africa
Peter Meakin has been a Property Broker and
Evaluator in
Cape Town, South Africa for more than 25 years, and is presently
employed
as Director, Valuation Division, of the Holland Real Estate
company. He
was managing director of the Board of Executor's Properties, Ltd.
(1990 to
1993). Presently a trustee of South Africa's Constitutional
Property Rights
Foundation, and a registered Valuer for Municipal Valuations
(Rates and
Taxes).
Mr. Meakin has been the Editor of Land and Property, a
quarterly journal which gave out pertinent messages concerning
the laws
affecting real property in South Africa, and information to
educate readers
on the subject of the various sorts of taxation and the effect it
has on our
lives. His favorite speaking subjects are: Land Rent and Site Value
Rating.
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Hanno T. Beck
Banneker Center for Economic Justice
647 Plymouth Road
Baltimore, MD 21229
Tel: 410 744-0521
e-mail: banneker@progress.org
Mr. Beck is President of the Banneker Center for
Economic Justice, and publisher of the daily Internet periodical
The Progress Report.
Mr. Beck's experience in public speaking ranges from addressing
economic reform conventions, the Chesapeake Electronics
Exposition, the Direct Marketing Association of Washington, the
Lieutenant
Governor's Conference on Affordable Housing, and the
Missouri Valley Economic Association.
A member of Toastmasters International since 1995, Beck has won public
speaking awards and currently serves as a Toastmasters club mentor.
Beck offers to address subjects ranging from
economics to the future of the Internet, from
urban/suburban sprawl
to curbing environmental pollution, making taxes fair, and many
more topics of interest to all.
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