About Dr. J.W. Smith
With a Ph.D. in political economics, J.W. Smith has written broadly and lectured widely around the world. This is his 5th book on the causes and cures of world poverty.
J.W. Smith not only takes a different view from most economists his deep research pushes dense and impossible to understand neoliberal economics off the table and replaces it with sensible economics that we can all understand.
Dr. Smith points out, “neoliberal economics makes sense only within borders of an empire. As soon as one steps outside those borders it make no sense at all. How could it? It is designed to lay claim to the wealth of the periphery of empire?”
Dr. Smith’s 30 plus years of deep study of economic history builds a relatively new school of thought. Where else do you read how wealth accumulation increases or decreases exponentially with the differential in pay between equally productive labor? That evolving from plunder by raids to plunder by trade became the signature of “civilized” nations? That Adam Smith free trade was specifically designed to entrench this system of laying claim to others wealth? Or that no nation ever developed under that philosophy? The exposure of these realities provide a new foundation upon which to understand the world.
That understanding of economic history leads us to Dr. Smith’s explanation of how Western “democracies” evolved from feudalism and today’s property rights laws as applied to nature’s resources and technologies which nature offers to us all for free retain the essentials of those feudal exclusive rights to nature’s bounty. These monopoly rights exclude the weak from their rightful share of social production.
Smith provides the historic foundation to understand how Western “democracies” evolved from feudalism, that property rights still retain feudal exclusive rights to nature’s bounty, and that it is these monopoly rights excluding the weak from their rightful share as the powerful continue the privatization of the commons that impoverishes so many people.
Dr. Smith looked deeply under the blanket of imposed belief systems protecting the power structure and its stolen wealth and concluded the debris of custom and law are the barriers preventing Western societies from evolving into peaceful and far more productive societies.
Dr. Smith’s explanation of how the elimination of those monopolies through expanding individual rights and competition through a modern commons increasing economic efficiency equal to the invention of money, the printing press, and electricity providing all with a quality life working only two to three days per week; all while protecting the earth’s resources and ecosphere, provides a ray of light on what we must do for a peaceful and prosperous world.
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J.W. Smith’s Curriculum Vitae:
CURRICULUM VITAE for J.W. SMITH
Presented these concepts in 8 overseas countries: Libya, South Africa, China, Poland, South Korea, Cuba, and Spain.
Degrees:
Doctor of Philosophy, Environmental/Political Economics, Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, Ohio
Forthcoming Books:
Books published:
Economic Democracy: The Political Struggle for the 21st Century, 1st edition (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000)
Economic Democracy: A Grand Strategy for World Peace and Prosperity, 1st and 2nd editions (The Institute for Economic Democracy, 2006, 2008)
Money: A Mirror Image of the Economy 1st and 2nd editions (The Institute for Economic Democracy, 2006, 2008)
Economic Democracy: The Political Struggle Of the Twenty-First Century Updated and expanded 2nd through 4th editions
Economic Democracy: A Blueprint for World Peace and Prosperity, (The Institute for Economic Democracy, 2006)
Cooperative Capitalism: A Blueprint for Global Peace and Prosperity, 1st and 2nd editions (The Institute for Economic Democracy, 2003-05)
Why? The Deeper History Behind the September 11th, 2001 Terrorist Attack On America, 1st through 3rd editions (The Institute for Economic Democracy, 2003-05)
The World’s Wasted Wealth 2: Save Our Wealth, Save Our Environment, (Cambria, CA, The Institute for Economic Democracy, 1994)
The World’s Wasted Wealth: The Political Economy of Waste (Kalispell, MT, New World’s Press, 1989) Libraries and the lay public were both good markets, some use in university classrooms.
Economic Democracy, 2000, created a little earthquake in the Indonesian university system. It seems they named their “Centre for Economic Democracy Studies” after that book.
All books have seen use in university classrooms. Three books are in print in India, WHY made the Book of the Month Club.
Originality:
Exposures of little known economic history provide a base that is in no other books:
1. A $10 an hour wage in one country trading with an equally productive $1 an hour wage country is not a ten times differential in retained wealth. It is a 100 times differential. High pay divided by the low pay squared.
2. Chapter two in Economic Democracy, citing classics, traces the origin and history of plunder by trade. The military today is for the same purpose as the raiding parties during the Middle Ages destroying the primitive industrial capacity of the countryside, control of resources and the wealth-producing-process.
3. Out of classics come the story of how Adam Smith free trade was first imposed on the world by Britain’s William Pitt. If the undeveloped world could be made to believe it, they handed their wealth to the developed world of their own free will and it did not require an army. The imperial nations of Europe broke themselves battling over who would control the wealth producing process, the only wealth left was in America, and America took over the job of imposing Adam Smith free trade upon the world.
4. Every economist of high standing, before they go on to their final reward, say “Henry George had it right.” Without realizing it was happening, when these books were finished Henry George’s philosophy, restructuring exclusive title to natures wealth to conditional title, had been inserted clear across the economic spectrum.
5. Restructure current exclusive titles to natures wealth to conditional titles and the huge blocs of capital buying and selling capitalized values of wealth appropriated from its rightful owners transposes into relatively equally-shared use-values. Economic efficiency doubles.
6. Diverse groups regions, and nations avoid conflict by federating. That part of the economic philosophies in these books are essentially the economic philosophies of major world federation groups.
7. These books prove neo-liberal economics is really a belief system for powerful nation’s appropriation of the wealth of weak nations. This research pushes neo-liberal economics off the table so that a just and equal development philosophy can be discussed. Our research demonstrates that those solutions are quite simple and the world could be sustainable developed and poverty eliminated in only 50 years through equalizing pay for equally productive labor worldwide and restructuring current property rights law under the principles of Henry George which eliminates the causes of both wars and poverty.
8. When fully fleshed out, exclusive titles to nature’s resources and technologies which she offers to us all for free exposes the beating heart of monopoly capitalism and takes a big bite out of classical economics. Those highly intelligent philosophers obviously could not write the honest story of capitalism. If they did so they would be marginalized. If they wrote to protect the system (meaning ignoring those exclusive titles to nature’s wealth and technologies offered to us all for free), they would be lionized. The very same process keeps Western professors, media, and politicians in line today.
Support:
Groups, some international in scope such as the International Philosophers for Peace, are organizing to push this research across the world. The universal response: “The causes of poverty are clearly outlined and the solutions are quite simple.”
Social organizations:
Established the Institute for Economic Democracy, www.ied.info, Ph 888-533-1020, a cooperative publishing house for books on full and equal rights, world peace, sustainable development, elimination of poverty, and world federation. This institute currently has 12 titles in their catalog (5 authors) and expect to add two to four books per year.
Positions:
Chief Financial Officer of, and Director of Research for, the Institute for Economic Democracy.
Articles:
Excerpts from The World’s Wasted Wealth appeared in six categories of Macrocosm USA: 1992 directory of progressive groups, books, and publications.
This author was chosen for the opposing view of the National Cattlemen’s Association. “Vegetarianism Promotes Sustainable Agriculture,” in the Anthology Global Resources, Editor Mathew Polesetsky (San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1991)
“Absurdities in World Agriculture,” The Animal Agenda,” September 1990 was condensed from the Agriculture chapter of The World’s Wasted Wealth .
Written up in NGLS ROUNDUP: United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service from which requests for updated research came from various countries around the world. A request from the Philippines said, “Graduate and Undergraduate students had read about it and were clamoring for your research to use in their class, Overview and Perspective of Development Management.” The most requests came from India.
“Frequency Spectrum is the Common Property of Mankind,” by William Tallah, Senior Technical Adviser, Ministry of Posts and Communications, Cameroon and based upon Smith’s published research, was printed in Summit: Mobile Telecommunications in Policy Making, September 1996.
“Wasted Time, Wasted Wealth,” condensed from The World’s Wasted Wealth, appeared in In Context, no. 37, 1994.
Key concepts excerpted from The World’s Wasted Wealth 2 in Earth Island Journal, Winter 1997-98,
Summary published in October 2004 issue of Progressive Railroading
Four page interview published in July 2005 issue of Agriculture Today in India
Radio talk shows and lectures:
• Guest on the Riley Report over WHAT radio in Minnesota, October 8, 2002, repeat guest a month later.
• Guest on the PowerHour, on 122 radio stations, October 24, 2002.
• Created and helped host two separate talk radio shows for KCBX Public Radio of San Luis Obispo, CA.
• Taped lecture, “The World’s Wasted Wealth,” was featured for 35 minutes on channel 9, community access cable TV, in Northwestern Montana, Nov. 25, 1992.
• Interview November 10th for Buy Nothing Day publication.
Conference Presentations and Lectures:
• PROUT Conference at Radford University May 23-25, 2008. Three presentations
• Conference for International Philosophers for Peace at Radford University, May 23-27th, 2007.
• Conference held by the Global Foundation for Democracy at Barcelona, Spain, April 15-17th, 2006. Panelists included Dr. Zbigniew Brzenzinski, Dr. Helmet Kohl, Ambassador Paul Bremmer, General Colin L. Powell, and other former heads of state.
• Presented at AMI conference on money September 28-October 2, 2006.
• Three Presentations at Hofstra University’s Day of Dialogue, October 19-20, 2005.
• Presented to the Henry George School in New York October 18, 2005
• Keynote speech at International Philosophers for Peace conference, May 26, 2004.
• Featured speaker at Consumer International conference in Durban South Africa in November 2000.
• Featured speaker at One World Conference, San Francisco, Nov. 1, 1997.
Workshop at
• Third World Studies Conference, University of Nebraska, Omaha, October 1999.
• Third World Studies Conference, University of Nebraska, Omaha, October 7-9, 1997.
Presented papers at
• An economic roundtable in Libya September 2005, met Colonel Kaddafi, shook hands, and traded each others’ books. The paper I presented on how the developing world can reclaim title to their resources and develop a vibrant economy must have made an impression. At a conference in Columbia university in 2006, all my expenses paid, the Libyan delegation had a table of papers and one stack was that lecture.
• An economic roundtable in Libya July 2004
• Presented paper at North American/Cuban Philosophy conference in Havana Cuba in June 2002.
• Speaker at Consumer International conference in Durban South Africa, November 2,000
• Speaker at a conference at Warsaw University in April 20002
• AEA/ASSA conference Jan. 7-9, 2000
• ASSA Conference, New Orleans, Jan. 4-7, 1997.
• Philosophy Conference, Purdue, Nov. 14 - 17, 1996.
• URPE Conference, Bantam, CT, Aug. 24th-27th, 1996.
• Third World Studies Conference, Loyola University, Chicago Mar. 27-30, 1996.
• World Association of Third World Studies Conference in Jacksonville, Fl, October 12-14th, 1995.
• ICOTA Conference, Chengdu, China, June 10-15th, 1994 where I was chosen to chair the concluding meeting and summarize the summaries of what was learned.
• Pan-African Studies Conference, Indiana State University; March 30 - April 2, 1994;
• Pan African Conference at Penn State, Apr. 13-15, 1995.
• North American/Cuban Philosophy Conference in Havana University, Cuba,. June 10th - 24th, 1994.
• Two ECAAR brainstorming sessions on converting from military to civilian production, Sept. 30 - Oct. 1st, 1994 and Sept. 28-30th, 1995 in Colorado Springs.
• Philosophers conference Loyola University, Chicago, Oct. 14-16, 1994; The Congress of Political Economists International conference, Seoul, South Korea, January 3-11. 1995.
• Citizens Assembly/UN 50 celebration, San Francisco, June 18-20th, 1995.
• COPRED Conference in Salem Oregon, Aug. 10-13th 1995.
• Third World Studies Conference, University of Nebraska, Omaha Oct. 13-14; 1994.
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