EMPOWERMENT: Recommended Reading

[Richard Stutsman <rstutsman@worldworks.org>]

Fellow Participants in the Economics of Empowerment group ...
and Dan Bell and Michael Kreyche:

I have been remiss in soliciting and posting recommended readings for this 
group. I received recommendations from Norm and Shann at the initiation of this 
group but never got around to asking that they be copied to the COG library or 
included in the introductory letter or home page.

I'm going to go ahead and post Norm's and Shann's lists of 5 recommended 
readings herein. Other participants are welcome and encouraged to make their 
own suggestions. Suggestions should be pertinent to the charter of this 
discussion, which is to come up with ways to promote and achieve the goals of 
the "Statement of Shared Vision" found at 
http://www.cesj.org/about/programs/declarations/sharedvision.htm.

Mr. Kreyche, please take steps to include these readings in the COG library if 
they are not already included. Or, at your discretion, you may simply want to 
provide links to the original sources, some of which might require special 
permission to copy to another Web site.

As for how to include these and other lists in the introductory material, let 
me entertain suggestions as to whether the list should be included inline or 
should be referenced as a link to a separate Web page, and whether each item 
should annotated with more or less information than appears below.

Norman Kurland sent me the following list of recommended readings on September 
6, 2001:

At 11:16 PM -0400 9/6/01, Norman Kurland wrote:
1.  Chaper 5 ("Economic Rights and Economic Justice") of "The Capitalist 
Manifesto" by Kelso and Adler, which can be downloaded from the web site of the 
Kelso Institute for the Study of Economic Systems at 
<http://www.kelsoinstitute.org>http://www.kelsoinstitute.org.

2.  Kelso's critique of "Das Capital", entitled "Karl Marx: The Almost 
Capitalist", retrievable by clicking on  
<http://www.cesj.org/thirdway/almostcapitalist.htm>KARL MARX: The Almost 
Capitalist By Louis O. Kelso. 
<http://www.cesj.org/thirdway/almostcapitalist.htm>http://www.cesj.org/thirdway/almostcapitalist.htm

3.  CESJ Paper on "The Third Way", 
<http://www.cesj.org/thirdway/paradigmpapers/pressclub-nkmgdb-ppr.htm>http://www.cesj.org/thirdway/paradigmpapers/pressclub-nkmgdb-ppr.htm

4.  <http://www.cesj.org/homestead/summary-cha.htm>Capital Homestead Act 
Summary. 
<http://www.cesj.org/homestead/summary-cha.htm>http://www.cesj.org/homestead/summary-cha.htm

5.  <http://www.cesj.org/thirdway/history3rd/personaljourney-nk.html>A Personal 
Journey to the Third Way. 
<http://www.cesj.org/thirdway/history3rd/personaljourney-nk.html>http://www.cesj.org/thirdway/history3rd/personaljourney-nk.html

In addition to these briefer pieces, we should recommend that all participants 
(1) visit the CESJ web site at <http://www.cesj.org>http://www.cesj.org for 
papers of many binary proponents, including some by Robert Ashford and Rodney 
Shakespeare, and (2) read the books "Binary Economics: The New Paradigm" by A&S 
and Kelso's first book with philosopher Mortimer J. Adler, "The Capitalist 
Manifesto."


Shann Turnbull submitted the following list on September 9, 2001:

At 3:22 PM +1000 9/9/01, Shann Turnbull wrote:
Earlier on Norm suggested five reference articles so here are mine:

Democratising the Wealth of Nations, The Company Directors' Association of 
Australia, Sydney, 1975. Republished electronically by COG 2000 at: 
http://cog.kent.edu/lib/TurnbullBook/TurnbullBook.htm

'New Strategies for Structuring Society From a Cashflow Paradigm', presented to 
the Fourth Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of 
Socio-Economics held at the Graduate School of Management, University of 
California, Irvine, California, U.S.A. in a "track" on the Third Way, Friday, 
March 27, 1992. http://cog.kent.edu/lib/turnbull1/turnbull1.html

'Stakeholder Governance: A cybernetic and property rights analysis', Corporate 
Governance: An International Review, Blackwell, 5:1. pp. 11-23, January, 1997.  
http://cog.kent.edu/lib/turnbull6/turnbull6.html. Re-published in Corporate 
Governance: The history of management thought, Ed. R. I. Tricker, pp. 40113, 
Ashgate Publishing, 2000, London.

'Should Ownership Last Forever?', Journal of Socio-Economics, 27:3, pp. 
341-363, 1998.
http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=137382

'Transforming Society', Perspectives, World Business Academy, San Francisco, 
Winter, 1992. 

The last article is attached but is not available on a web page.  Perhaps Dan 
might like to add it the COG library?


-- 
Richard A. Stutsman, Director
WorldWorks Symposium: An inquiry into how the world works
URL <http://www.worldworks.org>