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

[Keith Wilde <keithwilde@sympatico.ca>]

Dear Deb,

Thanks for this notice. This note is only to say that I do not seem to have
received the COGALL last week. Maybe other servers were defective also?

Keith


At 01:51 PM 04/22/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>  Dear Homesteaders: 
> 
> As you probably know from the COGAll email I sent last week,we are pleased
>to announce Sloan grant for 
>""   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.
>
> 
>
>  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”.
>  
> 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.
>   
Keith Wilde
Ottawa
kwilde@ca.inter.net
613 990-8125 

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