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DRAFT PROGRAMME - BIEN CONGRESS 2008

Theme: Inequality and Development in a Globalised Economy -

The Basic Income Option

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

9.15-5.00

IRELAND DAY CONFERENCE

The Ireland day conference has been organised by CORI Justice in association with the Congress 2008 Organising Commmittee and BIEN Ireland. It is also being held at UCD and is open to all participants at a discounted rate – see details on the registration section of this website.

BIEN CONFERENCE REGISTRATION (open throughout the day)

9.15am - 5pm

IRELAND DAY CONFERENCE

'MAKING CHOICES - CHOOSING FUTURES'



Part One: Making Choices - Choosing Futures

             - An economist's perspective

            Speaker: George Lee, Economics Editor, RTE

            - A trade union perspective

            Speaker: David Begg,

  General Secretary, Irish Congress of Trade Unions

             - A business perspective

            Speaker: Danny McCoy

            Director, Irish Business and Employers Confederation

             - A community and voluntary perspective

            Speakers: Seán Healy and Brigid Reynolds

            Directors, CORI Justice

Part Two: Securing an Adequate Income

             - What is an appropriate level of minimum income?

            Speaker: Micheál L Collins

            Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin

             - The Case for a Universal State Pension: Lessons from New

               Zealand for Ireland's Green Paper on Pensions

            Speaker: Gerry Hughes

            Pensions Policy Research Group, Trinity College Dublin

             - Basic Income in Ireland: surveying three decades

            Speaker: Seán Ward

            Public sector analyst



Meeting BIEN Ireland

Chairperson: John Baker

Friday, June 20th, 2008

8.30 onwards

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

9.30-11.00

OPENING PLENARY

Theme: Inequality and Development in a Globalised Economy - WHY Basic Income is a major part of the answer

Welcome

Peter Townsend (LSE and Bristol University)

Carole Pateman (UCLA and Cardiff University)

Pablo Yanes (Social Development Secretariat of the Government of Mexico City)

11.00 – 11.30

COFFEE/TEA

11.30 – 1.00

PARALLEL SESSION 1

1a. Pensions and Basic Income

(i) Asghar Zaidi (OECD) Role of non-contributory pensions as a form of securing a basic income in Europe

(ii) Armando Barrientos (University of Manchester) Role of non-contributory pensions as a form of securing a basic income in developing countries

(iii) John Macnicol (London School of Economics) The politics of non-contributory pensions

(iv) Brian Nolan (University College Dublin) Providing Basic Income for Older Persons: What can be Learned from the Performance of the Irish Pension System?

1b. Global and Regional Issues

(i) Heiner Michel (University of Frankfurt) Is a Global Basic Income a Remedy for Poverty?

(ii) Ian Gareth Orton (La Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa) Eliminating Child Labour: The Promise of Unconditional Cash Transfers

(iii) Oladejo Olowu (University of Fort Hare) Benchmarking Social Security for Human Development in Africa: A Rights-Based Approach to Legal and Policy Responses

1c. Gender and Care I: Should Feminists Embrace Basic Income? (A Roundtable)

(i) John Baker (University College Dublin)

(ii) Julieta Elgarte (Universidad Nacional de La Plata)

(iii) Anca Gheaus

(iv) Almaz Zelleke (The New School, New York)

(v) Orla O'Connor (National Women's Council of Ireland)

1d. An Institutional Perspective on Basic Income I

(i) Louise Haagh (University of York) Basic Income, Labour Market and Occupational Freedom

(ii) Bill Jordan (University of Plymouth) Basic Income and Social Value

(iii) Rubén M. Lo Vuolo (Ciepp) Labour markets informality and welfare regimes in Latin America. Why Basic Income is better

1e. Social Justice and the Meaning of Life

(i) Michèle Billoré (France) Noospheric Ethical/Ecological Constitution for Mankind

(ii) Manuel Franzmann (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität) An Unconditional Basic Income from the Perspective of the Sociology of Religion

(iii) Johannes Hanel (Germany) Basic Income and Social Jusitce

13.00 – 14.00

LUNCH

14.00 – 15.30

PARALLEL SESSION 2

2a. Routes to Basic Income I

(i) Francisco Jose Martinez Martinez (Universidad Nacional de Distancia, Madrid) Debate on Basic Income in the Spanish Parliament

(ii) Al Sheahan (USBIG) The Rise and Fall of a Basic Income Guarantee Bill in the U.S. Congress

(iii) Daniel Raventós (University of Barcelona) and Julie Wark How to Implement Universal Human Rights: the Monterrey Declaration

2b. Case Studies – Countries

(i) John Tomlinson (Queensland University of Technology) Timor Leste: Minimum Wages, Job Guarantees, Social Welfare Payments or Basic Income?

(ii) Dale Forbes (South African Municipal Workers' Union) The nature of the South African welfare state by evaluating the non-implementation of basic income protection

(iii) Sergio Luiz de Moraes Pinto (São Paulo Municipality Government)Basic Income and Stakeholder Grants: Jointly Breaking the Long History of Endemic Poverty and Economic Inequality in Brazil

2c. Gender and Care II: Is Basic Income Good for Women?

(i) Áine Uí Ghiollagáin (la Fédération Européenne des Femmes Actives au Foyer) Basic income and caring: Why aren't all caregivers interested in basic income?

(ii) Mary Murphy (NUI, Maynooth) and Orla O'Connor (National Women's Council of Ireland) Is basic income the answer to the feminist demand to individualise Irish social security?

(iii) Margot Young (University of British Columbia) Women, Work and Basic Income

2d. An Institutional Perspective on Basic Income II

(i) Lindsay Stirton (University of Manchester) Rethinking Universal Welfare and Administration

(ii) Jurgen De Wispelaere (Trinity College Dublin/University of Oxford) and José A. Noguera (Autonomous University of Barcelona) The Political Feasibility of Basic Income: Towards an Analytical Framework

2e. Theoretical Perspectives on Basic Income

(i) Ian Gareth Orton (La Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa) Why we Ought to Listen to Zygmunt Bauman.

(ii) Lasse Erkstrand (University of Gävle) and Monika Wallmon (Uppsala University) What does Basic Income REALLY mean?

(iii) Andrea Fumagalli (University of Pavia) and Stefano Lucarelli (University of Bergamo) Basic Income and Counter-power in Cognitive Capitalism

15.30 – 16.00

COFFEE/TEA

16.00 – 17.30

PLENARY

Theme: HOW can a Basic Income system be operationalised and achieved (politically, institutionally and technically)?

Moving to Basic Income - A left-wing political perspective

Speaker: Katja Kipping - Member of German Parliament

               (The Left Party) -

Moving to Basic Income - A right-wing political perspective

Speaker: Hugh D. Segal, - Senator in the Canadian Parliament

               (Conservative Party)

Addressing the Institutional and Technical Challenges

Speaker: Charles M.A. Clark (St John's University, New York)

Addressing the Challenges from a Developing World Perspective

Speaker: Viviene Taylor (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

18.30

OFFICIAL EVENT – Social event hosted by the Irish Government at the offices of the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government.

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

9.30 – 11.00

PARALLEL SESSION 3

3a. Routes to Basic Income II

(i) Richard Lawson (Green Party England and Wales) Introducing Basic Income by the Back Door in a Recession

(ii) Gösta Melander (Swedish Senior Party) How a basic income may be achieved politically

(iii) Marc Meuris (Belgium) A Basic Income Allowance as a Solution for the Social Unification of the EU

3b. The Bolsa Familia in Brazil I

(i) Maria Ozanira da Silva e Silva (Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Brazil) The Bolsa Família Program and the Reduction of Poverty and Inequality in Brazil

(ii) Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy (Brazilian Federal Senate) The Transition from the Bolsa Família Program to the Citizen's Basic Income in Brazil

(iii) Clóvis Roberto Zimmermann (Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros) The Citizenship Principle in Income Transfer Programs in Brazil

3c. Basic Income and the Environment

(i) Miriam Kennett ( Green Economics Institute) to be confirmed

(ii) Borja Barragué (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Pigovian Taxes, Cap-and-Trade System, or Environmental Adders? A Green Financial Model for a Basic Income

(iii) Celia Kerstenetzky (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro) and Lionello Punzo (Università di Siena) Sustainable tourism: basic income for poor communities

(iv) Erik Christensen (Aalborg University, Denmark) A Global Ecological Argument for a Basic Income

3d. Freedom and Reciprocity I: Basic Income and the Institutions of a Property-Owning Democracy

(i) Simon Birnbaum (University of Stockholm) Freedom, Reciprocity and the Ethos of Work

(ii) David Casassas (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Freedom as Personal Independence: From the Claim for Reciprocity to the Struggle for Equity Among Peers

(iii) François Hudon (Université Catholique de Louvain) Basic Income and Property-Owning Democracy: Toward a Free and Equal Society

3e. Basic Income and Guaranteed Income in Canada

(i) Pat Evans (Carleton University, Ottawa) Challenging Income (In)security: Women and Precarious Employment

(ii) Luann Good Gingrich (York University, Ontario) Double jeopardy, social exclusion, and lone mothers in the market-state social field

(iii) Robert Arnold and Rob Rainer (National Anti-Poverty Organisation, Canada) Working Towards Guaranteed Adequate Income in Canada: the NAPO Initiative

(iv) James Mulvale (University of Regina, Canada) The Debate on Basic Income / Guaranteed Adequate Income in Canada: Perils and Possibilities

11.00 – 11.30

COFFEE/TEA

11.30 – 12.00

CONFERENCE ADDRESS

Minister for Overseas Aid, Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland

12.00 – 13.30

PARALLEL SESSION 4

4a. Funding Basic Income I

(i) André Presse (University of Karlsruhe) Can Fiscal Policy support Social Entrepreneurship?

(ii) Francisco Javier Alonso Madrigal and José Luis Rey Pérez (University Pontificia Comillas of Madrid) What Type of Taxes Demands Basic Income?

(iii) Anne G. Miller (Citizens Income UK) Designing and Costing Simple Basic Income Schemes

4b. The Bolsa Familia in Brazil II: the Transition from BF to Basic Income

(i) Vera Lúcia Graziano da Silva Rodrigues (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas) The Bolsa Família and the Rural Families in Campinas, Brazil

(ii) Carolina Raquel D. Mello Justo (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) Basic Income X Minimum Income:How the Political-Ideological Dispute has advanced in Brazilian Concrete Programs

(iii) André Pires (Universidade Católica de Campinas) Bolsa Família and others public policies: reflection about Campinas (SP)

(iv) Elaine Cristina Licio (National School of Public Administration, Brasilia) Federative issues within cash transfer programmes in Brazil: implications for the transition from Bolsa Familia Programme to a basic income system

4c. The Debate in Europe

(i) Gianluca Busilacchi (University of Camerino, Italy) The different regimes of minimum income policies in the enlarged Europe

(ii) Sascha Liebermann (UBI, Germany) The German experience of bringing Basic Income into the National Debate

(iii) Eric Patry (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland) The Basic Income Debate in Switzerland: Experiences and Perspectives

(iv) Markku Ikkala (Jyväskylä University, Finland) Basic Income Discussion in Finland

4d. Freedom and Reciprocity II: The Case for Basic Income

(i) Karl Widerquist (University of Reading) Status Freedom

(ii) Almaz Zelleke (New School, New York) Reconsidering Independence: Foundations of a Feminist Theory of Distributive Justice

(iii) David Casassas (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and Daniel Raventós (Universitat de Barcelona) Property and Freedom: Theses on the Republican Case for Basic Income

4e. Economic Security in Canada

(i) Ernie Lightman (University of Toronto) Towards Economic Security for New Immigrants: Beyond Workfare

(ii) Anita Vaillancourt (University of Northern British Columbia/University of Toronto) More than a Northern Living Allowance: Considerations and Strategies for Designing and Implementing Basic Income in Rural Northern Contexts

(iii) William Clegg (National Anti-Poverty Organisation, Canada) Basic Income-Greater Freedom of Choice Through Greater Economic Security of the Person in a Globalized Economy

13.30 – 14.30

LUNCH

14.30 – 16.00

PARALLEL SESSION 5

5a. Funding Basic Income II

(i) Al Sheahen (USBIG) How the U.S. Can Afford a Poverty-Level Basic Income Guarantee

(ii) Jörg Drescher (Projekt Jovialismus) Economic view of model proposals for funding a basic income on the basis of the value creation of goods and services

(iii) Paul Segal (University of Oxford) How to Spend It: Poverty Elimination and the Distribution of Resource Wealth

5b. Migrant Workers and Ethnic Minorities

(i) Maria Oleynik (Ireland) Basic Income in Changing Ireland

(ii) Seamus O'Tuama and Will Denayer (University College Cork) Basic income as a tool of integration of immigrants

(iii) Jens-Eberhard Jahn (Netzwerk Grundeinkommen; DIE LINKE) A Basic Income for Inhabitants of Rural Areas and Members of Ethnic Minorities

5c. Making Basic Income Happen

(i) Wim Van Lancker (University of Antwerp) Basic income, an alternative for neo-liberal pension reforms?

(ii) Steven Shafarman (Citizens Policies Institutes, USA) Basic Income and the 2008 Campaign in the United States

5d. Global Justice

(i) Michael W. Howard (University of Maine) Cosmopolitanism and Self-determination

(ii) Celia Kerstenetzky (Universidade Federal Fluminense) and Gary Dymski (University of California) Global Basic Income and Financial Globalisation

(iii) Myron J. Frankman (McGill University) Justice, Sustainability and Progressive Taxation and Redistribution: The Case for a World-Wide Basic Income

5e. Economic Effects of Basic Income

(i) Manfred Füllsack (University of Vienna) Possibilities and limitations of computer based Multi Agent Simulation for Basic Income research

(ii) Jeffrey J. Smith (Forum on Geonomics) How to make BI inflation-proof, while also raising wages

(iii) Alexander Varshavsky (Russian Academy of Sciences) Basic income and increasing income inequality in Russia

16.00 – 16.15

COFFEE/TEA

16.15 – 17.30

CLOSING PLENARY

Theme: Basic Income: The Way Forward

A roundtable with a number of short presentations from people reflecting on the main themes of the Congress and what they have heard followed by an open forum. The speakers:

1.  The Way Forward - the political dimension

Speaker: Richard Caputo (Yeshiva University, New York)



2.  Report from Developing World strand

Speaker: Lorna Gold (Programme Leader, Torcaire)



3.  What's new? What's next?

Speaker: Philippe Van Parijs (Catholic University of Louvain and Harvard University)



4. "Reviving Egalitarianism in Full Freedom: Why Basic Income will       define progressive politics"

Speaker: Guy Standing (University of Bath and Monash University)

Open Forum

Thanks and Farewell

17.30

BIEN General Meeting – elections etc.

19.00

INFORMAL SOCIAL EVENT

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2008/5/13 <william_b_ryan@yahoo.com>:

From http://www.douglassocialcredit.com

An Autobiographical Note
by
Frances Hutchinson

It may be helpful to outline how and why I came to
engage in the formal study of the works of Clifford
Hugh Douglas and the history of the Social Credit
movement. After decades of campaigning for peace,
co-operation, green politics, women's rights, third
world issues, education, local government,
international understanding environmental issues,
peace and justice generally, at the age of fifty I
became a post-graduate student in the Department of
Economics at Bradford University. I reasoned that
although each issue was rich in its own literature, no
substantial changes in policy were forthcoming because
one factor overarched policy-making in each subject
area – the economy. I was advised by Dr (now
Professor) Mary Mellor, whom I had met at a
'red-green' gathering in Manchester, to put my general
reading onto a more formal footing by enrolling for
postgraduate research at a university.

Having located a tutor – Brian Burkitt, Senior
Lecturer in Economics at Bradford – and paid the
registration fees, I was left with a problem. What
should I research? The whole of economics was too tall
an order. At the time, I was standing in local
elections as a Green Party candidate. When I discussed
Green Party policies with my elderly neighbour, Tommy
Tinkler, he said that concerns about protection of the
environment, notions of sufficiency as opposed to
unfettered economic growth, and basic income were
nothing new. It had all been said before in the 1930s
by "Major Douglas and social credit". Through
University Extra-Mural classes and a local social
credit study group which met weekly, he had studied
alternative economics, including social credit in such
detail that he was able, fifty years later, to provide
me with an outline of the basic ideas from memory. He
gave me The Monopoly of Credit by C. H. Douglas, some
copies of the national weekly The New Age, and of a
bi-monthly newsletter of the 'Northern Greenshirts'*,
printed in Keighley. Social credit and its place in
the history of economic thought was to become the
subject of my research from then onwards.

Over a lifetime of study of the social sciences,
politics and economics, I had never heard mention of
Social Credit. Hence from the very outset of my
research there were unanswered questions. Tommy
Tinkler was astounded that I knew nothing of the
subject. Yet when I mentioned it to my father, retired
senior lecturer in economics, and to my tutor, both
knew what I was talking about immediately, though both
declared that "all that crank nonsense was over years
ago." Which it was. Douglas had been dead forty years.
Repeatedly, over the years, I was advised, in a kindly
sort of way, not to pursue the subject because it was
only propounded by right-wing, anti-Semitic fanatics.
For this reason I at first avoided contact with known
social crediters.

In those pre-internet days obtaining information on
obscure topics was tricky. Through the library system
I located three books on social credit published
between 1953 and 1972. All three authors focused on
political events in Alberta, Canada, in the late
1930s, giving virtually no indication of what social
credit economics was about. Since no list of his books
appeared, it was clearly assumed that the reader
already knew what 'social credit' was about. I
collected copies of all Douglas' books and articles
written between 1918 and 1924. Having analysed these
works I set out the economics and philosophy of social
credit. It all made very good sense. Here was an
alternative to business-as-usual, 'I'm alright, Jack!'
growth-based, environmentally destructive capitalism
and socialism 'as-we-know-it'. I went on to study the
world-wide debate between Douglas and leading
policy-formers in the early 1930s. And finally I
looked at the events in Alberta in 1935 when the
election of a Social Credit government brought social
credit onto the political arena.

As my research continued, Brian Burkitt met Donald
Neale through an anti-Common Market group meeting
which he was attending. Through that contact I met
Marjorie Douglas, Audrey Fforde, Donald Neale and
members of the Secretariat in Scotland. Later, I met
Mike Rowbotham at the first meeting of the Bromsgrove
Group. Mike Rowbotham and I worked together for a
while, preparing The Grip of Death and What Everybody
Really Wants to Know About Money for publication by
Jon Carpenter. Mike Rowbotham introduced me to
Elizabeth Dobbs, sadly after Geoffrey had died. I
spent a weekend in Bangor with Elizabeth shortly
before she moved into residential care. I also visited
Don Martin and Jane in Sudbury, and Eric de Maré.
However, I sought to avoid being drawn into the
internal 'politics' of the Social Credit movement,
seeking instead to research Douglas social credit in
such a way that it could be openly discussed in
universities. I discovered that a number of career
economists had taken their ideas from Douglas without
acknowledgement.

Throughout my research I was sustained by the guiding
hand of Brian Burkitt, who is an authority on radical
economics in the inter-war years (see Brian Burkitt,
Radical Political Economy Harvester 1984). Nothing
would have come of my rambling researches without his
firm discipline, fund of knowledge, constant support
and sparkling sense of humour. Ten years ago, our
findings were published in The Political Economy of
Social Credit and Guild Socialism* (Routledge 1997), a
refereed publication.

Once published, the book would, I thought, be snapped
up by green campaigners everywhere. And indeed, the
review published in Resurgence (No. 190,
September/October 1998, pp64-65)* indicates, I was
justified in my opinion that we had presented a
readable and relevant account of the story of social
credit. However, the book was so highly priced that it
disappeared onto the shelves of university libraries,
and nothing more was heard of it in the popular
alternative press.

I continued my researches, writing two more books and
working with different co-authors. In the ten years
following from 1993 I gave papers at sixteen
university conferences in ten different countries, and
had eleven papers published in refereed journals.
Although I worked with academics, and with alternative
thinkers in the voluntary sector, nobody was prepared
to step outside the mould of conventional economics by
entering into a meaningful dialogue on the subject of
social credit. By the time the 'post-autistic
economics' students started their enthusiastic attack
on the logical inconsistencies of neo-classical
economic theory (c2000/1, see www.paecon.net), I was
beginning to lose heart.

Meanwhile, with Brian Burkitt's help, I put together a
module entitled "An Institutional Analysis of Money"
for second and third year economics undergraduates.
Based on the work of Clifford Hugh Douglas and
Thorstein Veblen, it proved very popular with the
students. The course contrasted the orthodox approach
to economics teaching, which is 'institution free',
with the realities of economic life where economic
agents operate within a network of man-made laws and
institutions. Thus for a few years social credit was
studied in a university. When it was suggested that
the course could form the basis of a book, Mary Mellor
and Wendy Olsen offered to help with the writing. In
due course The Politics of Money: Towards
Sustainability and Economic Democracy was published by
Pluto Press in 2002. Although it received very few
reviews, it is now sold out. Since I am no longer
connected with any university, I am not in a position
to bring out a revised edition.

In 2001, Alan Armstrong gave up the editorship of The
Social Crediter, and the Chairmanship of the Social
Credit Secretariat, because he found himself unable to
enlist support for his monetary reform proposals from
politicians following unfounded allegations of
anti-Semitism. As I see it, the Secretariat is an
educational rather than a campaigning body. Douglas
was firmly opposed to propaganda. The history of the
movement shows that Social Credit spread most
effectively through weekly study groups (See The
Political Economy of Social Credit and Guild Socialism
and The Challenger).

However, in writing about social credit I had
certainly become caught up in another agenda. In June
2002, as we were on the point of sending the final
draft of The Politics of Money to the publishers, a
draft paper was circulated to the three of us and to
all with whom we were in professional contact. The
paper, by Derek Wall, currently Principal Speaker of
the Green Party, entitled "Social Credit: The
Ecosocialism of Fools," was a collection of untruths
juxtaposed with emotive non-sequiturs. The gist of the
paper was that Douglas and all social crediters were
anti-Semitic. Therefore greens and all respectable
academics should drop the subject if they did not want
to blight their careers by being labeled
'anti-Semitic'. With great difficulty I persuaded Mary
Mellor to continue with the book, promising that I
would research the allegations fully. The quality of
the Wall paper was such that I felt certain it would
never appear in a respectable journal. I was wrong.
For whatever reasons, the editorial board of
Capitalism, Nature, Socialism published the paper,
under the same title, in September 2003 (Vol. 14, No.
3, pages 99-122).

By now, I was thoroughly curious myself. A body of
economic theory presenting a sane alternative to
rampaging consumerism, disseminated through study
groups across the world, was to be studiously avoided
because it was - anti-Semitic? It just did not begin
to add up. Were the editors of academic journals,
their referees and the organisers of international
conferences on economics playing with fire when they
accepted my/our work for publication and discussion?
One journal, the Political Quarterly, is read by any
social scientist and politician worth their salt. Were
its editors failing in their duty to protect the
public from unsavoury material when they published
"The Contemporary Relevance of Clifford Hugh Douglas"
by myself and Brian Burkitt, in the October-December
1999 issue (Vol. 70, No.4, pages 443-451)? Would the
study of social credit really lead impressionable
people into setting up Nazi-style death camps? I was
somewhat nonplussed.

In the early years of the 21st century, people
continue to air their views and/or campaign on a whole
range of single issues: anti-war, anti-nuclear
weapons, animal rights, organic/local agriculture,
fair trade, slow/safe food, debt, poverty, racism,
feminism, conservation, ecology, alternative
medicines, education, diseases and disabilities which
have struck their own families – the list is endless.
Some pick up on Basic Income, Credit Unions, LETs
schemes, Grameen Banks and the like as ways out of
specific pockets of economic disorder. However, unless
and until there is a radical re-think about the
operations of the institutions of banking and finance
which now regulate all human co-operative activity,
the over-arching problems will continue to grow at a
far faster rate than individual solutions will be able
to solve. Social Credit offers a starting-point – it
was never more than that – for a healthy debate about
ways forward into the future.

Although I advocate the study of Douglas's writings on
social credit, and the study of the story of the
Social Credit movement, I do not claim to be a 'social
crediter', because labels of this type imply the
bigoted advocacy of an unscholarly collection of
dogma. On the same basis, I do not claim to be a
pacifist, ecologist, economist or Marxist. What I do
advocate most urgently is the study of the works of
leading writers on politics, philosophy, pacifism,
ecology, economics, including especially Douglas,
Thorstein Veblen, Karl Marx and many others (see
my/our published works for introductory comment on the
work of leading thinkers).

Despite the efforts of so many dedicated individuals,
at present there is no public forum for debate of
alternative political/economic thought. Recently, open
debate in the Green Party of England and Wales has
been suppressed (see "Is Democracy Dead?" by Brian
Leslie). Social credit has been so effectively
'discredited' that no voluntary or political
organisation dares to take it on board, neither will
individuals work to promote study of the subject for
fear of being discredited themselves. Editors of
alternative journals have turned down contributions
even vaguely connected with social credit. All I am
able to do is place material in the public arena for
possible study at some later period.

Frances Hutchinson
June 2007

In addition to having published numerous articles and
reviews in academic and other journals, Frances
Hutchinson is the author (with Brian Burkitt) of The
Political Economy of Social Credit and Guild Socialism
(Routledge, 1997) (Reprinted by Jon Carpenter, 2005),
(with Andrew Hutchinson) of Environmental Business
Management (McGraw-Hill, 1997), of What Everybody
Really Wants to Know About Money (Jon Carpenter,
1998), and (with Mary Mellor and Wendy Olsen) of The
Politics of Money: Towards Sustainability and Economic
Democracy (Pluto Press, 2002). She was awarded a PhD
for her published works, and now edits The Social
Crediter.
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