Fred Lee is a long-standing IWW member and a professional economist, who teaches at University of Missouri Kansas City. He also coordinates a network of "heterodox" economists, which was the subject of an article a few months ago in the New York Times. He and I co-organized (though he did most of the work) a conference on economics and the labor movement as part of the IWW centenary, and its web site is still up.

At long last I have found a place to add comment. This is what I put on the email list in reply to request for info about IWW minded economists:

"Some people might consider Leopold Kohr as an Economist. I think that was what he was a Professor of, and he was certainly sympathetic to IWW lines. Among his books are "The Breakdown of Nations", "The Academic Inn" and "The Inner City" There are others, I first found his writing in 'The University Libertarian' about half a century ago.

 I could say don't read the supporting Economists. Read the enemy. The economic base that was told to me, when I first heard of what became Thatcherism in 1954, was twenty years later found in The ABC of Economics by Ezra Pound. The US Govt chose to confine him in a loony bin rather than bring him to trial ater WW2. Read that ABC and you will get a glimmer of what we are up against."

To get to the roots of our philosophy we need to know if that Austrian economist Jack London quoted in a novel really existed. He was previously queried on this site at http://www.iww.org/en/node/3509 That Plebs' College discussion note has existed since 1998 without response. I cannot even remember which J L novel it appeared in as a footnote. "The Iron Heel" or "The Valley of the Moon" perhaps.

It just occurs to me that Herzog (t?) might have been an Austrian Professor working in the USA as far back as the 1880s.

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In reply to Jon Bekken - I found Fred's website at http://cas.umkc.edu/econ/economics/faculty/Lee/Intro-PKE/Index.html. He has something about Post Keynsian Economics, but seems to have missed that Keynesian Economics have never been properly tried. Only half the therory has been applied, by corrupt Capitalist bought politicians who engineer inflation to keep the stock market rising. Without additional Keynesian taxation when times are good they do not have Keynesianism.

 He has also read Marx's Capital, but does not seem to have seen that the relative Wealth increases Marx calls for to achieve Higher Communism could more easily, and certainly more  safely, be brought about by reducing the human population. 

There were Wobblies in the USA who saw that before 1917.  They also foresaw the potential for the destruction of Earth's ability to support Life through human overpopulation.

How come word of that lived in Wales, but seems lost in the USA? Something to do with ten year sentences for Criminal Syndicalism? Or just one Wobbly Sam Mainwaring Jnr. taking the time to educate the child of a Comrade who disappeared in the Spanish Civil War?