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Publisher: Russ Nelson, St. Lawrence Valley (NY) Friends Meeting.
Editor: Loren Cobb, an independent Friend from Boulder, CO.
Editorial Board:
Chuck Fager, Director, Quaker House, Fayetteville, NC.
Virginia Flagg, San Diego (CA) Friends Meeting.
Valerie Ireland, Boulder (CO) Friends Meeting.
Norval Reece, Newtown (PA) Friends Meeting.
William Rhoads, Germantown (PA) Monthly Meeting.
J.D. Von Pischke, a Friend from Reston, VA.
John Spears, Princeton (NJ) Friends Meeting.
Geoffrey Williams, Attender at New York Fifteenth Street Meeting.
Loren Cobb
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Since 2005 the editor and principal writer for The Quaker Economist has been Loren Cobb, an international consultant based in Louisville, Colorado. He describes himself as a Quaker with Buddhist tendencies, a pacifist who has worked with military organizations all over the world, and a mathematician who prefers the social sciences to physics. Currently he is a visiting professor at the University of Colorado Denver, Department of Mathematics. His Erdös number is 4.
An interview with Loren Cobb on Pacifica Radio
A two-part interview with Loren Cobb on Spirit in Action
Useful and Interesting Links, with Commentary
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The Quaker Economist was founded in 2001 by Jack Powelson, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado, and a long-time member of the Boulder Friends Meeting. Jack died in 2009 after a brief illness. We miss him.
Prior to July 2002, this electronic journal was known as The Classic Liberal Quaker.
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Jack Powelson
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Online Books from The Quaker Economist:
A History of Wealth and Poverty: Why a Few Nations are Rich and Many Poor, by Jack Powelson.
Una Historia de Riqueza y Pobreza: Porque unas pocas naciones son ricas y muchas son pobres, por Jack Powelson.
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Recent Articles
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- Jack Powelson, RIP |
- Letter from a Soldier |
- The Icelandic Free State |
- The Decline of War |
- Global Warming |
- Corruption in America |
- Speaking Truth to Trauma |
- History and Future of World Energy |
- Goodbye to Economic Man |
- A World Without Authority |
- Trust and Economic Development |
- One Nation, Indivisible |
- Population Implosion
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- Energy Apocalypse?
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- Quaker Values & Economic Valuation
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Ghosts
of the Future
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- Peak Oil and Hybrid Cars
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- National Accounts
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- Child of the Wind
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- Oil Addiction
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- Democracy
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- Myth, Ritual, and Symbol
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- Hope & Light for the Winter Solstice
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- Flight of the Condor
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- Fortress America
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- Interest & Discounting the Future
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- Price Gouging and Empathy
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- Libertarian Remedies
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- Thanks, Germany!
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- Hurricane Katrina, Pt 2 |
- Preparing for Disaster: Exercises
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- Hurricane Katrina: Consequences |
- A Visit to the War on Drugs |
- Corporate Corruption |
- Globalization of Crime: El Salvador |
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