Clifford Hugh Douglas

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Clifford Hugh Douglas (born January 20, 1879 in Stockport , † September 29, 1952 in Fearnan , Scotland ) was a Scottish engineer who developed the economic concept of social credit .

Life

After Douglas his degree in mathematics at the University of Cambridge had been completed, he worked in various companies and industries as an engineer. His work took him to leading positions in North and South America and India .

His experiences during the First World War in the aircraft factory of Farnborough made him suspect that the value of production exceeded the sum of disbursed as salaries and dividends income.

Douglas checked the characteristics of more than a hundred large UK companies and found that all but those close to bankruptcy had incomes paid out less than production values. Douglas published these observations and the conclusions drawn from them in the English Review under the title "The Delusion of Super Production". As a result, he expanded the thoughts outlined there into the concept of social credit .

The anti-Semitic protocols of the Elders of Zion had a major influence on Douglas theories . Building on this, he understood the existing monetary system as part of a " Jewish world conspiracy ". Even after the "protocols" were exposed as falsified, Douglas stated that they "reflected the facts of daily life".

In the 1920s and 1930s Douglas turned increasingly to economic policy. He has been appointed adviser to several parliamentary committees in Canada and the UK . On extensive travels he presented his theories in various countries, including in front of members of the US Senate and the Norwegian King Håkon . During this time Douglas published other books on his theories.

Building on Douglas' ideas of social credit, a social movement emerged that led to the establishment of several political parties , including the Social Credit Party of Canada and the Social Credit Party in New Zealand .

Works

  • Economic Democracy (1920; revised 1934). Reprint. Bloomfield Books, 1974. ISBN 0904656063
  • Credit-Power and democracy (1920; revised 1934). Stanley Nott, London 1934.
  • The Control and Distribution of Production (1922; revised 1934). Stanley Nott, London 1934.
  • Social Credit (1924; revised 1933). Reprint. Institute of Economic Democracy, Canada, 1979. ISBN 0920392261
  • The Monopoly of Credit (1931). Reprint. Bloomfield Books, 1979. ISBN 0904656020
  • The Use of Money (1935)
  • The Alberta Experiment: An Interim Survey (1937)
  • The Big Idea (1942). Reprint. Veritas Publishing Company, Canada, 1986. ISBN 0886360005
  • The Brief for the Prosecution (1945). Reprint. Legion for the Survival of Freedom, Incorporated, 1986. ISBN 0949667803
  • Whose Service is Perfect Freedom? . Veritas Publishing Company, Canada 1986. ISBN 0949667641

literature

  • Bob Hesketh: Major Douglas and Alberta Social Credit . University of Toronto Press 1997. ISBN 0802041485
  • John W. Hughes: Major Douglas: the policy of a philosophy. Wedderspoon Associates, Glasgow 2002. ISBN 0954292316

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Clifford Hugh Douglas: Social Credit . Revised edition 1933. Reprint. Institute of Economic Democracy, Canada, 1979. ISBN 0920392261 . Chapter 6: Taxation and servitude .
personal data
SURNAME Douglas, Clifford Hugh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British economic theorist, engineer
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockport
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1952
Place of death Fearnan , Scotland