School of Cooperative Individualism

Overview

The School of Cooperative Individualism maintains one of the largest online archives of Georgist and land-economics literature: papers, essays, biographies, historical documents, and periodicals from across the single tax movement's history. It is directed by Edward J. Dodson, who states that "The School was established in January 1997 as a place where thoughtful persons would find meaningful — and sometimes new — insights into the long and tireless search for a socio-political philosophy that, if implemented, would nurture the development of just societies."[2] (Founding date is per the organisation — a C-claim.) The name refers to a school of thought "derived from … the objective search for truth" that the site associates especially with the emergence of Henry George; the site is organised around a large library, a Single Tax / Henry George section, and a Movement Periodicals Archive.[1]

Role

Rather than an advocacy body, it functions as a library and research resource — preserving and making freely available primary and secondary sources that would otherwise be hard to find, including out-of-print works and movement periodicals. It hosts free copies of important papers (such as Arnott & Stiglitz 1979 and Oates & Schwab) that this wiki cites. Together with Wealth and Want and masongaffney.org, it is part of the open documentary backbone of Georgist scholarship.

Its practical importance to this wiki is hard to overstate: cooperative-individualism.org is one of the most frequently cited domains in the corpus, appearing 19 times in this wiki's source registry and referenced across dozens of articles — from Arnott & Stiglitz and the Henry George Theorem to Mill, Rothbard, Churchill, and the Pennsylvania two-rate-tax history. Its hosted PDFs and HTML transcriptions of movement periodicals (Henry George News, Fragments, and others) supply primary-source text that would otherwise be inaccessible.

See Also

• Robert Schalkenbach Foundation · Mason Gaffney · Single Tax

Sources

1. School of Cooperative Individualism — Welcome/entry page. cooperative-individualism.org — used (fetched directly this session) for the site's role as an online archive/library, the Movement Periodicals Archive and Single Tax / Henry George sections, the "school of thought derived from…" framing, and the identification of Edward J. Dodson as Director.
2. Edward J. Dodson, "Introduction to Cooperative Individualism." cooperative-individualism.org/introduction.htm — used for "The School was established in January 1997…," quoted verbatim (organisational self-description; founding date is a C-claim).
3. This wiki's own source registry (sources/registry.csv) — cooperative-individualism.org appears 19 times, and the domain is referenced across dozens of research/, people/, concepts/, and places/ articles, establishing its role as a core hosting source for the corpus.