James Dale Davidson
Nato: March 25, 1941 – San Antonio, Texas, United States
James Dale Davidson is an American investor and financial writer who founded the National Taxpayers Union and, with William Rees-Mogg, wrote Blood in the Streets, The Great Reckoning, and The Sovereign Individual. ((https://www.ntu.org/library/doclib/2024/11/2019-annual-report.pdf)) His writing spans investing, taxation, and large-scale economic change. ((https://www.ntu.org/library/doclib/2024/11/2019-annual-report.pdf))
Biografia e Percorso dell'Autore
James Dale Davidson emerged first as an activist before he became widely known as a financial author. Educated at the University of Maryland and later at Oxford, he founded the National Taxpayers Union in 1969 while still young, turning complaints about taxes and federal waste into an organized public campaign. By the mid-1970s he had already become a visible media presence, with television appearances and magazine essays, and the themes that would define his later books were already in place: skepticism toward government expansion, fascination with structural change, and a preference for system-level arguments over narrow policy debate. ((https://reason.com/1976/12/01/spotlight-jim-davidson/))
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The Sovereign Individual
James Dale Davidson
Technology's unstoppable revolution: prepare for freedom beyond nation-states.
The Sovereign Individual
William Rees-Mogg & James Dale Davidson
A provocative forecast of how the Information Age will reshape society, economics, and individual autonomy in the digital era.
The Sovereign Individual
James Dale Davidson
Technology's unstoppable revolution: prepare for freedom beyond nation-states.
The Sovereign Individual
William Rees-Mogg & James Dale Davidson
A provocative forecast of how the Information Age will reshape society, economics, and individual autonomy in the digital era.
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Voci della Community
"Fortunately, James Dale Davidson, the chairman of the National Taxpayers Union, has not been deceived"
— Reason
"Finally, get a copy of "The Sovereign Individual" by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg"
— Scott Burns
"Nevertheless, Davidson and Rees-Mogg must be given their due"
— Kirkus Reviews
"James Dale Davidson, the chairman of the National Taxpayers Union, is a forceful man of action"
— John Chamberlain
"In 1997, James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg introduced the world to "mega-politics"
— Forbes
"Davidson and Rees-Mogg, who publish Strategic Investment, present an apocalyptic exercise that is unconvincing"
— Publishers Weekly
"But his career took a dramatic turn after he heard James Dale Davidson ... give what Sanford recalls as an "apocalyptic" speech"
— Stateline
"Davidson and Rees-Mogg ... afford genuinely thoughtful perspectives on an arguably uncertain future"
— Kirkus Reviews
"Davidson and Rees-Mogg's amazing track record for sheer prescience holds true, this may be their most revolutionary book yet"
— George Grant