Will the Rich Give Up Capital Ownership - Molly Cheshire Asks Robert Ashford the Hard Questions...

...and gets the tough answers...but answers there are for our economic problems. Join Professor Robert Ashford and Molly Cheshire as they explore how to create stable economic growth that you will not find at Harvard, Stanford, Yale or business schools yet can promote unused capacity

Robert Ashford B.A., University of South Florida
J.D., Harvard University

Robert Ashford is Professor of Law at Syracuse University, College of Law. His subjects include Binary Economics, Business Associations, Public Corporations, Professional Responsibility and Securities Regulation. He holds a J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School, and a B.A. with majors in physics and English literature, graduating first in his class at the University of South Florida. He was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Stanford University where he studied English literature and creative writing. His book Binary Economics: the New Paradigm, (1999) with Rodney Shakespeare, is available from the University Press of America.

Professor Ashford is the founder and principal organizer of the Section on Socio-Economics of the Association of American Law Schools and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Socio-Economics, the academic honor societies of Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Pi Sigma (physics), and the American Law Institute.

Professor Ashford has authored and co-authored articles, book chapters and monographs on various subjects including banking, binary economics, evidence, implied liability under federal law, professional responsibility, public utility regulation, socio-economics, securities regulation, and tax law. His publications include:

1. "What is Socio-Economics," 41 San Diego Law Review 5 (2004) (Published as an introductory article in a Symposium edition entitled "Teaching Law and Socioeconomics")

2. "Socio-Economics and Professional Respsonsibilities in Teaching Law-Related Economic Issues, 41 San Diego Law Review 133 (2004) (Published in a Symposium edition entitled "Teaching Law and Socioeconomics")

3. "The Socio-Economic Foundation of Corporate Law and Corporate Social Responsibility" 76 Tulane Law Review 1187 (2002) (lead article in a Symposium edition entitled "Socio-Economics and the New Corporate Social Responsibility," which was based on my foundational scholarship.

4. "Binary Economics, Fiduciary Duties and Corporate Social Responsibility: Comprehending Corporate Wealth Maximization for Stockholders, Stakeholders, and Society," 76 Tulane Law Review 1531 (2002);

5. Binary Economics: The New Paradigm (1999), co-authored with Rodney Shakespeare.

6. A New Market Paradigm for Sustainable Growth: Financing Broader Capital Ownership with Louis Kelso's Binary Economics," Volume XIV, Praxis, The Fletcher Journal of Development Studies, pp. 25-59 (1998)

7. Socio-Economics: What Is Its Place in Law Practice?" Volume 1997 Wisconsin Law Review 611 (1997)

8. "Louis Kelso's Binary Economy," Volume 25 Journal of Socio-Economics pp. 1-53 (1996) (available on westlaw.com in its jjsocecon data base)

9. "The Binary Economics of Louis Kelso: A Democratic Private Property System for Growth and Justice," Chapter 6 in Curing World Poverty: The New Role of Property, (1994), John H. Miller, C.S.C., S.T.D., editor

10. "The Binary Economics Louis Kelso: The Promise of Universal Capitalism," 22 Rutgers Law Journal 3 (1990) (available on www-camlaw.rutgers.edu/publications/lawj ournal/ashford.htm)

11. Banking Law, Volume 5 Banks and Securities Regulation Supplement, Matthew Bender (1993)

12. "Residential Property Used for Business and Vacation Home," Chapter 9, CCH Federal Tax Service (1989)

13. "Take What You Have Gathered From Coincidence: The Importance of Uncertainty Analysis in Legal Inference and Probability," 66 Boston University Law Review 943 (1986)

14. "Implied Causes of Action Under Federal Laws: Calling the Court Back to Borak," Northwestern University Law Review 227 (1984)

15. "Evaluating the Potential Use of a Consumer Stock Ownership Plan for Financing the Capital Requirements of Public Utilities," Proceedings of Fourth Naruc Biennial Regulatory Information Conference, The Ohio State University (1984)

16. "Negligence v. Strict Liability: The Workers Compensation Example," 12 Seton Hall Law Review 725 (1982) (co-authored with William G. Johnson)

17. Report to the Ozarks Regional Commission, Department of Commerce, and the Governor of the State of Louisiana on Increasing Economic Development Activity through the Broadening of Capital Ownership: A six-month study of the laws, institutions, policies, public and private, in Louisiana areas including baking, insurance, industrial inducement bonding, taxation, public utilities and resource development. (December 1977)

18. "Presumptions, Assumptions and Due Process in Criminal Cases: A Theoretical Overview", 79 Yale Law Journal 165 (1969) (co-authored with D.M. Risinger)

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[GelandnaleG]

8:50pm Tuesday (CST) - Time in MississippiD

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8:50pm Tuesday (CST) - Time in MississippiD

[paulagloria]

@GelandnaleG what does this mean?

[Minimoy]

Every rich person I've known enjoys the ability to be seen by others as a philanthropist.

You know, we can sit and deny it all day. But there is a fear of population expansion, which holds back advancements in terms of getting people involved with wealth. Where I live the government gives a little basic help to every new born, and as a result many people have a lot of babies just to get the money.

One way of looking at Binary is offering it as an incentive for planned parenthood or adoption.

[paulagloria]

Ur point is not in harmony with my beliefs and opinions but am delighted you discovered it to be a critical point.

Take a look at Henry George's material...explaining that wealth is produced by people..people do not diminish wealth but produce it IF given access to resources...thus monopoly is the basis of the demise of a civilization Population Makes Land Valuable Henry George's View on Population /watch?v=uQ2Ut3B7XcA

[Minimoy]

Not necessarily. People have to realize they're supporting this system every day, all it takes really is a common decision to view things in a different way. It all begins with the ideas of right and wrong and how they change as people get sucked into polarizing views. The real solution in my opinion, is powerfully developing a positive culture of looking at things in non-polarized ways. Polarization is really the sole reason behind all things considered wrong.

[Minimoy]

If you fight it you're contributing to it. You have to provide your own solution.

[Minimoy]

Yes that's true. My father and grandfather were both freemasons, and they used to say that our world is one of balance. We have many species here already, but man is monopolizing the planet. You can't change these beliefs with theories, because they have a whole system of science that we don't know of to back those beliefs. In the mean time, we have real erosions that are causing problems like the family unit. People will not want the best for themselves if they don't love themselves.

[mrcon5]

yes I agree...have you ever been exposed to philosophies that say advanced civilizations throughout the universe have denser populations - greater diversity of people are needed for rich complex cultures.

[Minimoy]

OK, my point had less to do with population and more to do with people growing up with a sense of self worth.

[rabbitholecentral]

53:00 "'Printing press money' it doesn't sound like it has anything of intrinsic value" sez Molly and Robert says it does and it doesn't but another topic for another day....I'd like to see that day

-Paula Gloria