Fred E. Foldvary
Department of Economics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053
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)
Employment
Lecturer in Economics, Santa Clara University, September 1998 - present.
Faculty associate, Civil Society Institute, Santa Clara University.
Past positions at California State University at Hayward, John F. Kennedy University (California), Virginia Tech, and the Latvian University of Agriculture.
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.
RESEARCH
Books authored
Forthcoming Chinese edition of Public Goods and Private Communities.
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 pp.
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
"Technological Advancement: The Receding Case for Government Intervention." With Daniel Klein. STS Nexus 4, no. 2 (2004): 38-46.
"Small-Group, Multi-Level Democracy: Implications of Austrian Public Choice for Governance Structure." The Review of Austrian Economics 15 (2/3), June 2002: 161-174.
"Ethno-federalism." Geophilos 1 (2) (Autumn 2001): 68-82.
"Technology and Market Failure." With Daniel Klein. Regulation 24, 2 (Summer 2001): 9-11.
"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.
"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
"Public Revenue from Land Rent." In Handbook of Public Finance. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.
"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.
"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.
Nonacademic Articles
1997 to current, weekly editorials in The Progress Report, http://www.progress.org
"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.
Chapters in Nonacademic Books
"Tax Policy and Land Reform," in (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
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.
Recent Conference Presentations
"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 Seminar Presentations and Lectures
"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
American Economic Association.
Society for the Development of Austrian Economics