Roy A. Foulke

Author of the the Preface to
Progress and Poverty

Roy Davidson

[2000 (estimated)]

Chuck Metalitz:

Another Georgist history question, I guess... I had one student who insisted he wanted the hard-cover P&P, and now he wants to know who wrote the "Preface to the 75th Anniversary Edition". It's signed "R.A.F" We do have a Georgist booklet published by Dun & Bradstreet in 1954, written by one Roy A. Foulke. Is this who it is? And who is/was he?

Roy Davidson:

I presume R.A.F. is the same Roy A. Foulke who was a vice-president of Dun & Bradstreet in 1954 when they published his two pamphlets entitled AN INQUIRY INTO THE PURPOSE OF THE PRODUCTION OF WEALTH and A STUDY OF THE CONCEPT OF NATIONAL INCOME. Interestingly, Foulke unlike most academic economists defined the factors of production and wealth in precise and functional terms similar to Henry George's definitions for land, labor, capital, wealth, etc. Don't know if Schalkenbach has ever reprinted the above-mentioned publications.