THE NATURE OF PROPERTY IN SOCIETY:

Toward an Authentic Social Science

Alvin Lowi, Jr.

November 20, 1998 (Revised 4-15-01)

Notes and References

¹ Kenneth Silber, "A Little Bit of Heaven" REASON, November, 1998.

²David Ferguson, Director of the Tucson Center for Socionomic Research, posting on the Cactus Club Dialogue web page (http://www.logan.com/afi/tuc.html), entitled "extraterrestrial property rights," 17 November. 1998.

³Karl R. Popper, OBJECTIVE KNOWLEDGE--AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH, Oxford, 1972.

⁴Karl R. Popper, CONJECTURES AND REFUTATIONS: THE GROWTH OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE (dedicated to F. A. von Hayek), Basic Books, 1962.

⁵A. Lowi, "RECIPROCITY AND SOCIONOMICS," Cactus Club Dialogue item, November 10, 1998 (http://www.logan.com/afi/tuc.html).

⁶ Spencer Heath, CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR--Emerging Society; Outline of Socionomy, the New Natural Science of Society, The Science of Society Foundation, Baltimore 1963, pages 193-194. (distributed by Spencer H. MacCallum <sm@look.net> dba the Heather Foundation, Box 180, Tonopah, NV 89049)

⁷Andrew J. Galambos, "Capitalism, the Key to Survival," Free Enterprise Institute Course 100, Los Angeles, 1961.

⁸Henry Grady Weaver, The Mainspring of Human Progress, The Foundation for Economic Education, New York, 1953.

⁹Ludwig von Mises, HUMAN ACTION, Yale University Press, 1949.

¹⁰ Morris R. Cohen and Ernest Nagel, AN INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC AND SCIENTIFIC METHOD, Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York, 1934.

¹¹George Soros, THE ALCHEMY OF FINANCE--Reading the Mind of the Market, John Wiley & Sons, 1987.

¹²Theodore J. Lowi, THE END OF LIBERALISM: The Second Republic of the United States, Second Edition, W.W. Norton, New York, 1979. Pp. 42-61.

¹³Robert H. Frank, MICROECONOMICS AND BEHAVIOR, McGraw-Hill, New York, pp. 661-3.

¹⁴Leonard Read, ELEMENTS OF LIBERTARIAN LEADERSHIP, The Foundation for Economic Education, New York, 1957.

¹⁵Leonard Read, GOVERNMENT--AN IDEAL CONCEPT, The Foundation for Economic Education, New York, 1954.

¹⁶John R. Umbeck, A THEORY OF PROPERTY RIGHTS with Application to the California Gold Rush, available from Laissez Faire Books, 1999.

¹⁷ Frederic Bastiat, THE LAW, (Dean Russell’s translation), The Foundation for Economic Education, New York, (first printing on 100th anniversary of the publication of its first english translation), 1950.

¹⁸Spencer Heath, unpublished archive item No. 477, distributed by Spencer H. MacCallum dba the Heather Foundation, Box 180, Tonopah, NV 89049.

¹⁹Percy W. Bridgman, THE NATURE OF PHYSICAL THEORY, Chapter II, "Operations," Princeton Univ. Press, 1936

²⁰Andrew J. Galambos, WHAT IS PROPERTY?, Thrust For Freedom No. 2., The Liberal Publishing Company, Los Angeles, 1963.

²¹ , THE COMPACT OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY, Oxford University press, 1991.

²²Spencer Heath, op. cit., p. 73.

²³Spencer H. MacCallum, ART OF COMMUNITY, Institute for Humane Studies, Menlo Park, CA, 1970.

²⁴E. C. Riegel, FLIGHT FROM INFLATION, Heather Foundation, Los Angeles, 1978. (distributed by Spencer H. MacCallum dba the Heather Foundation, Box 180, Tonopah, NV 89049.)

²⁵E. C. Riegel, THE NEW APPROACH TO FREEDOM, Heather Foundation,.San Pedro, CA, 1976. (distributed by Spencer H. MacCallum dba the Heather Foundation, Box 180, Tonopah, NV 89049.), pages 20-29.

²⁶Ludwig von Mises, BUREAUCRACY, William Hodge & Co., London, 1945.

²⁷C. Northcote Parkinson, THE LAW, Penguin Books, 1979.

²⁸Raphael G. Kazmann, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS--AN ENGINEERING EVALUATION, The Foundation for Economic Education. Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.

²⁹seeLEVITICUS in THE TORAH OF THE TANAKH, The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1985

³⁰Attributed to Jesus in Matthew 7.12, THE LIFE APPLICATION STUDY BIBLE, New International Version, Tyndal House Publishers, Wheaton, Il, 1991.

³¹Galambos, op.cit.

³²A. Lowi, "Scientific Method--In Search of Legitimate Authority in Society," Controlled Circulation Document available from the author (e-mail: a l o w i @ e a r t h l i n k . n e t), December 25, 1996.