Edward J. Dodson

Education: Bachelors of Arts degree in business from Shippensburg University; Masters of Liberal Arts degree from Temple University; extensive course work and training in real estate and mortgage finance.

Work experience: 24 years in the real estate and housing sector; construction oversight for an REIT; Manager of the residential mortgage lending program for a major regional commercial bank; and for the last eleven years, credit analyst and risk manager for FannieMae (the world's largest investor in residential mortgage loans and mortgage-backed securities).

Public interest activities: Served on the board of advisers of Allegheny West (Neighborhood Housing Services) in Philadelphia; serve on the faculity and as trustee of the Henry George School.

Initiatives: Developed guidelines for use by community land trusts of a "scattered site" approach to affordable housing on leased land.

Papers/Presentations:

• A Human Rights Doctrine In The Age Of Cultural Relativism^* (1992)
• A Warning Too Late (the Eisenhower Presidency) (1989)
• Affordability of Quality Housing (1988)
• America's Dichotomy: Advantage versus Equality (1985)
• Answering Questions of Personal Political Philosophy (1987)
• Answering the Questions: What Are Our Liberties (1985)
• By George, a playscript involving a dialogue between Henry George and George Bernard Shaw
• Bust to Boom and Back Again (1990)
• Challenges To The Global Monetary Structure^* (1990)
• Citizenship^* (1987)
• City Planning (1989)
• Clintonomics: Why It Won't Work^* (3/93)
• Creating A Better Model To Solve Urban Ills (1984)
• Democracy At Risk (1985)
• Democratic Imperative, The^* (1992)
• Dialogue On Political Economy (1982)
• EARLY ESSAYS
• Economics Of Land Markets^* (1992)
• Eisenhower Declassified (1985)
• Endless Oppression (1985)
• Endless War (1984)

• EQUAL RIGHTS EDITORIALS
  • Land Revenue is Missing Link in Federal Tax Reform Dialogue (1984-85)
  • Light Brigade, England's Charge Borne on Ireland's Back (198 )
  • Reagan Economics: Great Expectations (1981)
  • "Real" Tax Reform? (1985)
  • Selling the Nation's Resources (1981)

• Frederick Jackson Turner And The Frontier Dichotomy (1985)
• Free Trade and U.S. Living Standards / Theory versus Reality (1995)
• From Samuelson to George: A Galbraithian By-Pass (1980)
• Global Concerns Over Human Rights (1984)
• Homeownership and Markets: The Lessons of the Twentieth Century and the Consequences of Policy Choices (1990)
• Improbability of Real Tax Reform (1985)
• In The Footsteps Of Henry George
• In the Land Down Under (1989)
• International Finance Dilemma (1983)
• Is Housing Headed For A Global Crash (1988)
• Jeffersonian Vision And The Just Society, The (1987)
• JFK: A Failure Of Promise Or Promise Fulfilled? (1987)
• Justice Secured? (1986)

• LAND & LIBERTY ESSAYS
  • A Warning Too Late (the Eisenhower Presidency) (1988)
  • Citizenship in the States (1988)
  • Congress Smiles on Landowners (1988)
  • Finance, A Private Affair (1992)
  • Heartland Heartburn (1987)
  • Legacy of the Frontier Chaos (1985)
  • Long-Term Lessons In New World's Land-Grab (1986)
  • Seeds of Destruction (1991)

• Land at the Heart of the Matter (GroundSwell, Nov/Dec 1989)
• Land, The Neglected Factor (1985-86)
• Land Speculation (1985)
• LETTERS TO EDITORS
• Liberalism: On A Collision Course With Liberty^* (1992)
• Light Brigade, England's Charge Borne On Ireland's Back(1981)
• Long-term Lessons in New World's Grabs (1986)
• Macroeconomic Program For Full Employment
• Myth or Reality? US Is The Land of Opportunity (1992)
• New Federalism: Economics of the 1980s (1985)
• Politics And Economics Of Deficits (1984)
• Privacy Rights, Liberty And Original Intent (1988)
• Reagan Economics: Great Expectations (1981)
• Reviving Our Cities: A Market Driven Perspective (1991)
• Saudi Arabia: Gambling On Deep Pocket Power (1986)
• Scattered-Site Properties and the Community Land Trust (1991)
• Search For The Golden Variable
• Selling the Nation's Resources (1981)
• Site Value Taxation, Its Impact Upon Productivity And Economic Stability (1981)
• Smoking: Where Liberty And License Collidate (1986
• Surviving In The Markete Economy: A Primer on Economics and the Role Government Should Play (1992)
• Tendency As Principle: Resurrection Of Henry George's Closed System Of Political Economy And The Irish Question^* (1987)
• Third World Problems: A Post-Colonial Legacy? (1989)
• Thomas Paine: Architect of Cooperative Individualism (1995)
• Tolstoy: Conservative And Counter-revolutionary (1985)
• Translating Reveerence for Life Into Public Policy (8/94)
• Tribalism and the Breakdown of Nations^* (1992)
• U.S. Foreign Policy Toward South Africa: Treading On History
• Urban Crisis: Societies Out of Control and the Cities They Have Spawned (1989)
• Urban Revitalization, The Lender's Role (1983)
• What Kind of a Republic?^* (1991)
• Where We Stand: In What Direction We Are Heading^* (1992)

Last modified: 10 October 1996

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