Norm Kurland
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Consulting |
| Occupation | Revolutionary |
| Location | Arlington, Virginia, United States |
| Introduction | Norm Kurland, a lawyer-economist and president of the Center for Economic and Social Justice, was Louis Kelso's Washington-based political strategist for 11 years, following years of work in civil rights and the War on Poverty. He was described by the New York Times in January 1974 as "a one-man lobbying organization for Kelsonian ideas," after he and Kelso persuaded Senator Russell Long to champion legislation to promote employee stock ownership plans or "ESOPs." He has authored numerous published articles on all facets of the Kelso system of binary economics. Among the expanded ownership models he designed was the first ESOP in a developing country, which created a workers shareholders association for 600 workers of the Alexandria Tire Company of Egypt. Mr. Kurland was appointed by President Reagan in 1985 as deputy chairman of the bipartisan Presidential Task Force on Project Economic Justice, formed to promote Kelsonian reforms in US assistance programs to developing economies. |
| Interests | Working with other architects of the future to deliver Peace, Prosperity and Freedom through Social and Economic Justice for all |
| Favorite Books | Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity (1969) by R. Buckminster Fuller, The Capitalist Manifesto by (1958) by Louis O. Kelso and Mortimer J. Adler, The New Capitalists: A Proposal for Freeing Economic Growth from the Slavery of Savings (1961), Binary Economics: The New Paradigm (1999) by Robert Ashford and Rodney Shakespeare |