Curriculum Vitae
Fred E. Foldvary
Lecturer in Economics
Department of Economics, San Jose State University, San Jose, California
95192
ph 510-590-2469, fax 408-924-5406, fred.foldvary@sjsu.edu
All activities listed in reverse chronology
Education
Ph.D., Economics, George Mason University, 1992.
Dissertation, Public Goods and Private
Communities.
Thesis
Director: Professor Richard E. Wagner.
1992
The
dissertation extends theories of public goods and industrial organization to
residential associations and other
private communities, with case studies on the market provision of collective
goods, rebutting market-failure arguments.
Master of Arts, Economics, George Mason University,
1990.
B.A., Economics and computer science, University of
California, Berkeley, 1970.
Honors
Phii Beta Kappa, Honor Student (U.C. Berkeley)
Editor experience
Editor, Topical Time magazine, 1981 to 1987.
Responsible for selecting and editing articles,
handling ads, obtaining proofs, and layout.
Employment
Lecturer in Economics, San Jose State University,
2006 to present day.
Lecturer in Economics, Santa Clara University,
September 1998 - 2012.
Co-director, Civil Society Institute, Santa Clara
University., 2005-2012.
Topics taught: principles of microeconomics,
principles of macroeconomics,
public finance, real estate economics, law and
economics, history of economic thought.
Past positions at California State University at
Hayward, John F. Kennedy University (California), Virginia Tech, and the Latvian
University of Agriculture.
Other teaching
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) class,
“Policy for social well being,” SCU, Nov. 7, 14.
Student seminars, Independent Institute, Oakland,
California
Economic and Social Policy Institute (ESPI), Belgrad,
Serbia, July 2007, 2008.
“Summer School of Economics: Vienna and Chicago,
Two Schools of Free-Market Economics.
<http://www.institutespi.org/eng/summerschoolofeconomics.htm>
<http://www.institutespi.org/eng/LSe/LSe2007.htm>
Awards
Atlas Foundation's Antony Fisher International
Memorial Award for Public Goods and Private Communities, 1995.
First-place winner, doctoral dissertation,
1992, Community Associations Institute
Research Foundation's Award of
Excellence.
Editorial Board
American Journal of Economics and Sociology
Econ Journal Watch
RESEARCH
SSRN Author Home Page:
<http://ssrn.com/author=278704>
Books authored
(with Fernando Scornik Gerstein) The
Marginalists and the Special Status of Land as a Factor of Production. 2010.
London: The International Union for Land-Value Taxation.
The Depression of 2008. Gutenberg Press, 2007. 36
pages. 1st ed. July 3, 2nd
ed. Sept. 18.
SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1103584 (Working Paper Series)
The Science of Economics. 2008. Formatted in 2007 by Julius Krause in Kosovo, from my manuscript
written in 1999 with later revisions.
<http://www.foldvary.net/Science-of-Economics.pdf>
Published in hard copy by University Readers, San
Diego, 2008, www.universityreaders.com
ISBN 978-1-934269-15-2
The Ultimate Tax Reform: Public Revenue from Land
Rent. 2006. Santa Clara University: Civil
Society Institute (Policy Study). SSRN:
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1103586
<http://www.foldvary.net/works/policystudy.pdf>
Das Lexicon der Freien Marktwirtschaft. Trans. Hans Günter Holl. Verlag Wirtschaft und Finanzen, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2000. German edition of Dictionary of
Free-Market Economics.
Dictionary of Free Market Economics. Edward Elgar Publishing, UK, 1998 (307 pages).
Public Goods and Private Communities, Edward Elgar Publishing, U.K., 1994.
The Soul of Liberty. Gutenberg Press, 1980. 330
pages.
Books translated
Public Goods and Private Communities: the Market
Provision of Social Services. 2006. Trans. into Italian: Beni pubblici
e comunità privateCome il mercato può gestire i servizi pubblici. Prefazione di Stefano Moroni (2010), 387
pages, ISBN: 978-88-6440-015-0
Torino: Institute Bruno Lioni.
<http://www.brunoleoni.it/e-commerce.aspx?ID=8905&level1=2220>
Public Goods and Private Communities: the Market
Provision of Social Services. 2006. Trans. Into Chinese by Zhen
Bingwen. Economy & Management
Publishing House <http://www.e-mp.com.cn/> . Beijing, China. ISBN
987-7-80162-835-0
Books edited
The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How Technology
Affects Old Policy Issues (with D.
Klein). Cato Institute in partnership
with New York University Press, 2003.
Beyond Neoclassical Economics: Heterodox Approaches to
EconomicTheory, Edward Elgar
Publishing, U.K., October 1996.
Anthology of revised papers from a1995 EEA conference panel.
Academic Journal Articles
(2008), “The Marginalists Who Confronted Land.” American
Journal of Economics and Sociology, 67 (January): 89–117. doi:
10.1111/j.1536-7150.2007.00561.x
“Answering the Questions on LVT.” Economic Affairs 27(2)(June 2007):
88-89.
<http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/ecaf/27/2?ai=10s&ui=1whzj&af=H>
“The Real Estate Cycle and the Depression of
2008.” Groundswell 20 (4) May/June 2007.
>http://www.progress.org/cg/foldvary_0607.htm>
“The Measurement of Inequality, Concentration and
Diversification.” Indian Economic
Journal, Vol. 54, No. 3, September-December 2006. SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1104829
“Planning by Freehold.” Economic Affairs 25(4)(December 2005): 11-15.
<http://ssrn.com/abstract=857526>
“The Ethical, Governmental, and Economic Elements
of Secession.” Santa Clara Journal
of International Law, Volume III, Issue 2 (2005): 192-211.
<http://www.scu.edu/scjil/archive/v3_FoldvaryArticle.shtml>
“Infrastructure: Optimal Private and Governmental
Funding and Provision.” Economic
Affairs 25(1)(March 2005): 11-15.
http://ssrn.com/abstract=682833
“Geo-Rent: A Plea to Public Economists.” Econ Journal Watch, Vol. 2, No. 1.,
pp. 1-12.
<http://www.econjournalwatch.org/pdf/FoldvaryIntellectualTyrannyApril2005.pdf>
“Foldvary on ‘Echoes of Henry George’”, American
Journal of Economics and Sociology 63 (5) (Nov. 2004): 1139-47.
“Technological Advancement: The Receding Case for
Government Intervention.” With Daniel
Klein. STS Nexus 4, no. 2
(2004): 38-46.
“The Fatal Conceit Revisited” with Daniel
Klein. Tech Central Station. 17 Feb. 2003.
<http://www.techcentralstation.com/021703C.html>
“La arrogancia fatal reconsiderada” por Daniel B.
Klein y Fred E. Foldvary
Traducido por Juan Carlos Hidalgo, 2003 (from the
above)
<http://www.liberalismo.org/articulo/124/19/>
“Virtual Barbed Wire” with Daniel Klein. Tech Central Station. 28 July 2003.
<http://www.techcentralstation.com/072803E.html>
“Small-Group, Multi-Level Democracy: Implications
of Austrian Public Choice for Governance Structure.” Review of Austrian Economics 15 (2/3), June 2002: 161-174.
<http://www.gmu.edu/rae/archives/VOL15_2-3_2002/foldvary.pdf>
SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1103568
Foldvary, Fred E. and Klein, Daniel B., "The
Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy
Issues" . Knowledge, Technology, & Policy, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 82-92,
Fall 2002.
http://ssrn.com/abstract=487682
“The Ethics of Taxation.” http://www.spaef.com/PFM_PUB/v1n3/1_3/1_3_6_foldvary.html
Public Finance and Management, Vol. 1, No. 3
(2001). Southern Public Administration
Education Foundation.
“Ethno-federalism.” Geophilos 1 (2) (Autumn 2001): 68-82.
"Technology and Market Failure." With Daniel Klein. Regulation 24, 2 (Summer 2001): 9-11.
http://ssrn.com/abstract=272786
"The Measurement of Inequality, Concentration,
and Diversification." 2001. Journal of Interesting Economics.
<http://www.daviddfriedman.com/JIE/jie.htm>
“The Completely Decentralized City: the case for benefits-based public
finance.” 2001. American Journal of Economics and Sociology 60 (1)
(January): 403-18.
"Market-hampering Land Speculation: Fiscal
and Monetary Origins and
Remedies." American Journal of Economics and Sociology 57 (4)
(October 1998): 615-37.
"The Business Cycle: A Georgist-Austrian
Synthesis." American Journal of
Economics and Sociology 56 (4)
(October 1997): 521-41.
<http://http://www.foldvary.net/works/geoaus.html>
"The Dependency of Wage Contracts on Monetary
Policy." With G. Selgin. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 151, no. 4,
December 1995: 658-72.
"Designing the Preconditions of a Market in
Land," Nase Gospodarstvo 39, nos. 5-6, 1993: 381-7, translated into
Slovenian by Matjaz Mulej.
"On Monopoly Rent: Comment," Land
Economics 69, no. 1 (February 1993): 108-110.
"Property Rights and Natural Law," Vera
Lex 8, no. 1 (1988), 6-7.
Chapters in Academic Books
"An Austrian Theory of Spatial Land."
2012. In The Spatial Market Process.
Ed. David Emanuel Andresson. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing. Pp.
3-23.
“The Marginalists Who Confronted Land.” 2009. In Henry George: Political Ideologue,
Social Philosopher and Economic Theorist (ed L. S. Moss), Blackwell
Publishing Ltd., Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444307054.ch5
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781444307054.ch5/summary>
"Urban Planning: The Government or the
Market." In Housing America: Building Out of a Crisis. Randall G.
Holcombe and Benjamin Powell (Eds.). Oakland: The Independent Institute. 2009.
Pp. 323-42.
“The Complex Taxonomy of the Factors: Natural
Resources, Human Action, and Capital Goods.”
Natural Resources, Taxation & Regulation. Laurence S. Moss, ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006:
315-30.
"Streets as Private-Sector Public
Goods." In Street Smart:
Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the future of Roads. Edited by Gabriel Roth. Oakland, The Independent Institute, and New
Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, pp. 305-325, 2006.
“The economic case for private residential
government.” In Private Cities:
Global and local perspectives. Eds.
Georg Glasze, Chris Webster, Klaus Frantz.
London and New York: Routledge.
Pp. 31-44. 2006.
“Public Revenue from Land Rent.” In Handbook of Public Finance. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004:
165-94
“Heath: Estranged Georgist.” In Critics of Henry George: An Appraisal
of Their Strictures on Progress and Poverty. Ed. Robert V. Andelson. 2nd
ed. Blackwell Publishing; supplement to
the American Journal of Economics and Sociology (April 2004): 411-32.
“The Lighthouse as a Private-Sector Collective
Good.” In The Half-life of Policy Rationales: How Technology Affects
Old Policy Issues. Eds. Fred
Foldvary and Daniel Klein. New York University
Press, 2003: 38-46. Also at:
http://www.independent.org/publications/working_papers/article.asp?id=757
“Introduction” (with Daniel Klein). In The Half-life of Policy Rationales: How Technology Affects
Old Policy Issues. Eds. Fred
Foldvary and Daniel Klein. New York
University Press, 2003: 1-18.
“Site-Value Taxation and the Rule of Law.” In Politics, Taxation, and the Rule of
Law: The Power to Tax in Constitutional Perspective. Eds. Donald Racheter and Richard
Wagner. Kluwer Academic Publishers,
2002: 185-202..
"Proprietary Communities and Community
Associations." In The Voluntary
City. Eds. David Beito, Peter
Gordon, and Alexander Tabarrok.
University of Michigan Press, 2002: 258-88. Reprinted from Public Good and Private Communities.
"Private Streets." Submitted to
forthcoming Private Roads to the Future. Ed. Gabriel Roth.
"Recalculating Consent." Buchanan Festschrift. 1999.
(Refereed)
http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB1/PHILO/Buchanan/files/foldvary.htm and
http://www.gmu.edu/jbc/fest/files/foldvary.htm
"Government Ownership and
Privatization." In Institutions
and Collective Choice in Developing Countries. Eds. Mwangi Kimenyi and John Mbaku. (Aldershot, US, and Brookfield, USA:
Ashgate, 1999), 291-314.
"The Ethics of Rent." In Land-Value Taxation: The Equitable
and Efficient Source of Public Finance.
Ed. Kenneth C. Wenzer. Armonk,
NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999, 184-204.
"Municipal Public Finance." In Handbook of Public Finance. Eds. Fred Thompson and
Mark Green. (NY: Marcel Dekker Inc.,
1998), 397-445.
"Market Reforms and Community
Entrepreneurship." In Self-Transformation
of the Forgotten Four-Fifths. Ed.
Robert G. Dyck and Matjas Mulej.
(Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 1998), 141-53.
"Franz Oppenheimer, the State, and
Land." In An Anthology
of Single Land Tax Thought. Ed.
Kenneth C. Wenzer. (Rochester:
University of Rochester Press,
1997), 403-38.
"Comparative Economic Theory" in Beyond
Neoclassical Economics: Heterodox Approaches to Economic Theory, Ed. Fred Foldvary. Edward Elgar Publishing,
U.K., 1996, 1-21.
"Foundational
Economics" in Beyond
Neoclassical Economics: Heterodox Approaches to Economic Theory, Ed. Fred Foldvary. Edward Elgar Publishing,
U.K., 1996, 148-62.
"Poverty and the Theory of Wages," in Land
and Taxation. Ed. Nicolaus Tideman. (London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1994),
141-156.
"Rental Income in the U.S.A." In Costing
the Earth, ed. Ronald Banks.
(London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1989),
177-181.
Encyclopedia Entries
“Chodorov, Frank (1887-1966).” In American Conservatism: an Encyclopedia. Eds. Bruce Frohnen, Jeremy Beer, Jeffrey
Nelson. Wilmington: ISI Books, pp.
145-6, 2006.
Nonacademic Articles
1997 to current, weekly editorials in The Progress
Report, http://www.progress.org
“Money to the People.” Berkeley Daily Planet.
March 11, 2009.
<http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2009-03-12/article/32444?headline=Money-to-the-People>
“The state’s complicity in the real estate crash.” Land
and Liberty 114, no. 1220 (Winter 2007-8): 18-20.
“Tax bads and untax goods with a green tax
shift.” ISIL Channels. Jan. 6, 2008.
<http://www.isil.org/channels/archives/12665> Editorial.
“A radical free-market remedy for recession.” Santa Monica Daily Press. 23 Oct. 2007, p. 5.
<http://www.smdp.com/site/archives/102307.pdf>
“Seeing the Cat.”
Prosper Australia. <http://www.taxreform.com.au/essays/thecat.htm>
Jan. 16, 2006
“For Love is Lord of All: Human sympathy can
inspire private giving and create social justice.” explore 8(1)(fall 2005): 19-21. Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education at Santa Clara University.
“Ny teknik gör regleringar föråldrade.” With Daniel Klein. Trellebords Allehanda, 26 July 2003, and Tidningen
Ångermanland, 28 July 2003.
“Enron and the Law of the Market.” Ideas on Liberty 52 (5), May 2002:
20-21.
"Geo-confederacy: The Single-Space Solution
for Multi-ethnic Communities." Land
& Liberty, Autumn 1999: 16-7.
"Government and Governance," The
Freeman 47, no. 1, January 1997:
33-37.
"Pied Piper's Promised Land," Land and
Liberty, May-June 1983, reprinted in Birthright in Land and The State of
Scotland Today, ed. Shirley-Anne Hardy (Scotland: Peregrine Press, 1999),
pp. 472-3.
“Geo-libertarianism," Land and Liberty,
May/June 1981, pp. 53-55.
Chapters in Nonacademic Books
"Tax Policy and
Land Reform," in ЗЕМЛЯ И
СОБСТВЕННОСТЬ
(Land and Ownership) Ed.
Chistiakov and M. Gaffney. 1995, 1-18.
Ecograd, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Trans. to Russian by Chistiakov.
"Land, Rent, and Capital," In Capitalism and the "Evil
Empire": Reducing Superpower Conflict Through American Economic Reform, New Horizons Press, 1988, 87-91.
Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals
The property tax and local autonomy, October 2010
issue of CHOICE magazine
CHOICE magazine. Thomas
Sowell, The Housing Boom and Bust.
Submitted 12 August 2009.
January 2009 issue of CHOICE 46(5):
Lowenstein, Roger. While
America aged: how pension debts ruined General Motors, stopped the NYC subways,
bankrupted San Diego, and loom as the next financial crisis. Penguin, 2008. 274p index
“Uncovering the Costs of the Iraq War.”
Essay-review of Stiglitz, Joseph E. and Linda J. Bilmes. 2008. The
Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict. NY: W. W.
Norton. Econ Journal Watch 5 (3)
September 2008: 373-9.
<http://www.econjournalwatch.org/pdf/FoldvaryWatchpadSeptember2008.pdf>
The Distributional effects of government spending and taxation, ed. by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 310p
bibl indexes ISBN 1403996253, $90.00. December 2006 CHOICE 44(4).
<http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/choice/home.htm>
Nigel Rapport and Andrew Dawson, eds.
Migrants of Identity.
Oxford and New York: Berg, 1998, for Geophilos, Autumn 2002:
139-141.
<http://www.landresearchtrust.org/downloads/geo5/Review-Foldvary.pdf>
Janos Kornai, Highways and Byways: Studies on Reform and
Postcommunist Transition, for Public Choice 88 (1997), nos.
1-2: 218-21.
Elwood Pl Lawrence et al, George and Democracy in the British Isles, in The American Journal of Economics and Sociology 55, no. 1 (January 1996): 125-7.
Evan McKenzie, Privatopia by Evan McKenzie, in Cato Journal
15, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 1995): 143-5.
Jonathan Wolff, Robert Nozick: Property, Justice and the Minimal
State, in Constitutional Political Economy 2, No. 3 (Fall
1991).
Other Book Reviews
Review of Michael Barone, The New Americans: How the Melting Pot Can
Work Again, for Ideas on
Liberty 52, no. 11 (November 2002): 58-9.
Mentioned in articles
The Catholic Review and Catholic News
Service, March 8, 2009. By Chaz
Muth. “Economists say Catholic ethics
could benefit global economic policy.”
<http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0901005.htm>
<http://www.catholicreview.org/subpages/storyworldnew-new.aspx?action=5778>
Fiction
“Henry Plottre and the Magically Expanding Land,” The Progress Report
Aug. 5, 2007.
<http://www.progress.org/2007/fold519.htm>
“Matilda’s Funeral.” The
Progress Report 2006.
<http://www.progress.org/2006/fold474.htm>
Recent Conference and Seminar Presentations
June 2, 2011, presented a paper, “Classroom Economic Simulation,” at the
National Conference on Teaching Economics held at Stanford University, June
1-3, 2011.
4 April 2011. “The Public
Finances and Governance of a Free City,” conference on The Future of Free
Cities, Roatan, Honduras.
4 January 2011.
"Socio-Economics and Georgist Economics," at the Annual
Meeting, Society of Socio-Economists, Haas School of Business, University of
California at Berkeley.
September 18, 2009. “The Private
Provision of Public Goods: The History and Future of Communal Liberalism.” Presented at the conference held by the
Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation for Liberty, Truman House, Potsdam, Germany.
“Shifting Back to Property Taxation” Aug. 6, and “What Should be Private?”
Aug. 7, Conference of the Council of Georgist Organizations, Aug. 5-9, 2009,
Cleveland, Ohio.
“By (Henry) George, Real Estate is the Source of All Our
Troubles!" July 10, 2009,
FreedomFest, Las Vegas.
Member of World Economic Summit “All Star Prediction Panel” of persons
who accurately predicted the Crash of 2008, July 9, FredomFest, Las Vegas, 9-11
July 2009.
"How the Tax System Creates Depressions Like the Crash of
2008" APEE conference, Westin Camino Real Hotel, Guatemala City,
Guatemala. April 6, 2009.
Feb. 27, 2009: Eastern Economic
Association conference, New York City.
Member of a panel on “Why Georgists correctly predicted the crisis and
why (almost) no one took them seriously:
What conventional economics can learn from them--and vice versa.” Session Sponsored by the Association for
Georgist Studies, session organizer and chair: Mary (Polly) Cleveland. Panel members: Karl E. (Chip) Case, Mason
Gaffney, Fred E. Foldvary.
Feb. 28, 2009: panel member, review of the book by Alanna Hartzok, The
Earth Belongs to Everyone: author meets commentators.
Dec. 9, 2008: “Small-group, multi-level bottom-up democracy.” Conference
on “Economics and Democracy,” Australian National University, Canberra,
Australia.
“The Non-Producer Surplus.”
Fourth Annual Meeting, Applied Business and Entrepreneurship Association
International, Marriott Wailea Beach Resort, Maui, Hawaii, Nov. 17, 2007
“The Public Finance of Private Communities and Private Transit.” Conference of the American Dream Coalition,
““Recovering from Smart Growth.” San
Jose, Nov. 11, 2007.
“Why my Georgist Economics Predicts a Depression in 2008.” FreedomFest, Las Vegas, July 7, 2007.
“Circumventing California’s Proposition 13 for the Public Collection of
Rent.” Conference of the Eastern
Economic Association, sessions on property tax reform and land-value taxation,
New York City, February 23, 2006
Seminar, Dept. of Economics, Santa Clara University. “A Synthesis of the Austrian-school and the
Georgist Theories of the Business Cycle, and its Empirical Testing.” Oct. 9, 2006.
“Private Communities as the Natural Benchmark.” International Symposium, “Territory,
Control, and Enclosure: the ecology of urban fragmentation.” Pretoria, South Africa, Feb. 28-March 3,
2005.
<http://www.gatedcomsa.co.za/conference/home.html>
“The Economics of Henry George.”
Berkeley Conference on Socio-Economics, Boalt Hall School of Law. Jan. 4, 2005.
“The Intellectual Boundedness of the Field of Public Finance.” Session on “Intellectual Tyranny of the Status
Quo,” organizer Pete Boettke, Conference of the Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, Nov. 21-2, 2004.
“Natural and Constitutional Law on War.” AMINTAPHIL conference on Contemporary Challenges to Just War
Theory. Palo Alto, Nov. 18, 2004.
“Classroom Economic Simulation.”
Conference on Teaching Economics, Cal State University Fullerton, Oct.
22, 2004.
“The Solution to Territorial Conflict: Pay Rent.” Conference of the International Union of
Land Value Taxation and Free Trade.
Madrid Spain. May 29, 2004.
“Why We Don’t Need Any Stinkin’ Taxes.”
Freedomfest, Las Vegas, May 15, 2004.
“Apparatchik Economics: the Past and the Future.” ISIL (International Society for Individual
Liberty) Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania, July 10, 2003.
“The Apparatchism of Public Finance.”
Conference of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, “Property
Rights and Markets: Bulwarks of the 21st Century,” Caesars Palace,
Las Vegas, April 8, 2003. Session 6.3,
“Apparatchik Economics,” Daniel Klein, chairperson. April 8, 2003.
Keynote speech, “Private Governance as Explicit Contracts among Legal
Equals,” International Conference on
Private Urban Governance, Institute of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany, June 6, 2002
“The Interaction of Real and Financial Causes of Market-Hampering Land
Speculation, and Remedies in Fiscal and Monetary Reforms and Risk-Spreading
Derivatives.” Seminar on Land
Speculation, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, March 8, 2002.
"Technology and the Case for Free Enterprise." Session of the Society for the Development
of Austrian Economics on the book, Half-life
of Policy Rationales: How Technology
Affects Old Policy Issues. Eds.
Fred Foldvary and Daniel Klein.
Southern Economic Association conference, Washington DC, Nov. 12, 2000.
"Cellular Democracy and Private Communities: a Remedy for Political Dysfunction." Session on
"Local Governance Issues and Alternatives." Conference of The Association of Private Enterprise Education, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2-4, 2000
"The Lighthouse as a Private-Sector Collective Good." Conference on Technology and Policy
Justification. Santa Clara, Jan. 29,
2000.
"Ground Rent Seeking in U.S. Economic History," conference of
the Southern Economics Association,
Atlanta, GA, November 21, 1997.
"Municipal Public Finance," conference on public finance,
Willamette University, Salem, Oregon,
August 19, 1996.
“Rent Seeking in Communitarian Democracy,” panel on "Models of
Political Processes," Western Economic Association, San Francisco, June
30, 1996.
"Is there an Austrian Theory of Public Finance?" Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn
University, Auburn, Alabama, Jan. 26, 1996.
Recent Invited Lectures and Participation
with Eric Gampel, “Debate on Universal Medical Care,” California State
University at Chico, October 17, 2007.
(Argued in favor of free market.)
Lecture, “The Free Market.”
California State University at Chico, March 28, 2007.
Liberty Fund seminar on “Private Neighborhood Associations and Liberty,”
Montreal, Canada. June 3-6, 2004.
“Community-based solutions to urban problems” Forum on “The Independent City: Restoring Urban Life in Crisis
Times,” with presentations also by
Daniel Klein and Peter Gordon. The Independent
Institute, Oakland, Feb. 4, 2004.
“Abolish the IMF.” Civil Society
Institute in conjunction with the SCU Institute on Globalization, Santa Clara
University, May 7, 2003.
“The Social Impact of Greed.”
Panel on "Greed: Vice or Virtue?
A Conversation with the Santa Clara University Greed Group.” Santa Clara University, Feb. 28, 2002.
“Public Choice and Special Interests:
how the structure of democracy gives power to the few at the expense
of the many.” Ethics at Noon
series, Santa Clara University. Feb.
27, 2002
"Private Governance: The Economics of Market-Based
Communities." California State
University, Hayward. February 9, 2000.
"Between State and Anarchy: A Model of Governance." Presented at the Université du Québec à
Hull, March 26, 1999, for the Anarchy & Liberty Seminar series.
Memberships and Fellowship
Research Fellow, The Independent Institute, Oakland
Academic Fellow, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
member, Private Urban Governance and Gated Communities network
<http://www.cf.ac.uk/cplan/chris/gci/main.html>
member, American Economic Association.
member, Society for the Development of Austrian Economics
member, Association for Geoclassical Studies
Refereeing
Econ Journal Watch
American Journal of Economics and Sociology (editorial board)
Reviewer for Choice journal
Consulation
Analysis of the U.S. retail environment for Wal-mart, March 15-31, 2005.
Signatory
“An Open Letter to Congress.”
National Taxpayers Union, Jan. 23, 2003.
<http://www.ntu.org/main/letters_detail.php?letter_id=40>
“An Open Letter to Governor George Pataki, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and
the New York City Council from 106 Economists* on the Likely Impact of a
Taxpayer-Financed Football Stadium in New York City.” May 23, 2005.
<http://www.ntu.org/main/letters_detail.php?letter_id=318>
Profile
http://www.scu.edu/business/economics/faculty/profiles/foldvary.cfm