|
COG
|
Homestead Discussion |
|||||||||
| |
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: HOMESTEAD: Trusteeship Trusts: can someone provide more info?
Why not ask my friend Terry? I will share a copy of this message with him <tmollner@aol.com> Regards Shann At 07:49 AM 28/9/2001, you wrote: >Alan: > > It did not come from me and I do not know its source. I hope > someone out there can help us. >Deb >At 02:16 AM 9/27/01 -0400, you wrote: > >Deb Olson and I pulled the information quoted below out of the Homestead > >discussion and used it in our paper on new ideas for spreading > ownership, but > >we don't remember the source of it. Can someone who knows about this > provide > >us with more information, ideally a citation for something published on the > >idea? Thanks. --Alan Zundel > > > >"Terry Mollner of the Calvert Social Investment Fund proposed Trusteeship > >Trusts, similar in concept to Ackerman and Alstott’s “grubstake” > idea, but > >not dependent upon the federal government. State and local governments, > >non-profit organizations, banks, philanthropists, professional/civic > >organizations and/or community groups could set up a program for any > >community (however defined); all that would be required would be some seed > >money, including some entity (perhaps state/local government) to > guarantee a > >seed loan if necessary. Mollner believed such a program would > eventually be > >self-financing with initial recipients paying back their stake at death." Shann Turnbull Ph.D. P.O. Box 266 Woollahra, Sydney, Australia, 1350 Ph: +612 9328 7466 office; +612 9327 8487 home; Fax: +612 9327 1497; Life long E-mail: sturnbull@mba1963.hbs.edu Alternate:sturnbull@optusnet.com.au http://members.optusnet.com.au/~sturnbull/index.html Papers at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=26239 with other papers & book at http://cog.kent.edu/library.html
|