HOMESTEAD: Invitation to review and discuss "Fair Exchange" proposal and research design

[Deborah Groban Olson <dgo@esoplaw.com>]

Dear Homesteaders: 
 
As you probably know from the COGAll email I sent last week,we are
pleased to announce Sloan grant for 
"fair exchange" research. As we organize the project and begin
developing the research we  look forward to  your thoughts and
suggestions. This discussion will take place in the Homestead working
group at homestead@cog.kent.edu. I will not have a chance to begin
working on the project until late May.Thereafter I hope to start
circulating questions and ideas to anyone interested. The most recent
versions of the Fair Exchange proposal can be found at
http://www.esoplaw.com/Fair%20Exchange.htm

        

Please
feel free to send the following press release to anyone. A version on
electronic letterhead is also available if you email my assistant Laura
at llm@esoplaw.com.



For immediate release -  April 15, 2004

          
COG, KSU get $45,000 Sloan Foundation grant to research ‘fair exchange’
proposal
 
The Capital Ownership Group (COG) and Kent State University have been
awarded a $45,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to research
the “fair exchange” proposal.
Deborah Groban Olson, executive director of COG, said she was contacted
April 14 by Gail Pesyna, a program director for the Sloan Foundation
telling her of the grant.
Olson said the fair exchange proposal would provide an equity return to
citizens for specific government benefits provided to businesses.
“We’re not talking about government ownership,” said Olson “but we want
to examine the feasibility of an approach to the challenge of
globalization based on the 1860s Homestead Acts, the airline bailout, and
other models”.
“We will be exploring an exciting new vision of the future,” said John
Logue, professor of political science at Kent State University in Kent,
Ohio, and director of Kent State’s Ohio Employee Ownership Center.
In his book The Soul of Capitalism author William Greider endorsed
COG’s fair exchange proposal as embodying the principle that rules on
investment in what he called “the corporate pork barrel” should be “truly
public in purpose”.
The Capital Ownership Group is a non-profit network of professionals,
business, labor and government leaders and staff, academics and activists
on six continents, works to broaden ownership to deal with the negative
effects of globalization.  
Its website can be found at
http://cog.kent.edu/.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic nonprofit institution,
was established in 1934 by
Alfred Pritchard Sloan,
Jr., then president and chief executive officer of the General Motors
Corporation.

For further information contact Deborah Groban Olson, (313) 331-7821 or
dgo@esoplaw.com or John Logue (330)
672-3028 or jlogue@kent.edu or Gail
Pesyna (212) 649-1649.