C. H. Douglas

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

Life

After Douglas had completed his studies in mathematics at Cambridge University, he worked in various companies and industries as engineer. The work led him into senior positions in North and South America and India.

When Douglas was busy during the First World War in the aircraft factories of Farnborough, he noted that the company's production measured in prices exceeded the sum of the paid out as salaries and dividends funds.

Douglas reviewed the characteristics of more than one hundred large British companies and discovered that all - except in businesses that were close to bankruptcy - the sums paid were as measured in the production prices low. These observations and the conclusions drawn from published Douglas in the English Review under the title "The Delusion of Super Production". As a result, he built from the described therein thoughts on the concept of Social Credit.

Significant influence on Douglas theories had the anti-Semitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Based on this he understood the existing monetary system as part of a " Jewish conspiracy ". Even after the "Protocols" were exposed as a forgery, Douglas explained that they " reflected the facts of daily life ."

In the 1920s and 1930s, Douglas turned increasingly to economic policy. He was appointed advisor to several parliamentary committees in Canada and the UK. On extended trips, he figured his theories in various countries, including in front of members of the U.S. Senate and the Norwegian king Håkon.

During this time, Douglas published more books on his theories.

Building on Douglas's ideas of Social Credit was a social movement that led to the creation 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 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 in 1986. ISBN 0949667641
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