ANDELSON, ROBERT VERNON, 1931-2003

Biography:

University Professor. Born– February 19, 1931, Los Angeles, Calif. Parents– Abraham and Ada (Markson) Andelson. Married– Geraldine Rippetoe, July 1, 1954. Married Bonnie Von Orange Johnson, June 7, 1964. Education– attended Los Angeles City College; University of Chicago, A.B., 1952; University of Southern California, A.M., 1954, Ph.D., 1960. Ordained minister in the Congregational Church, 1959.  Executive director of the Henry George School of Social Science in San Diego, 1959-1962; taught at Northland College in Wisconsin, 1962-1963; Northwestern State University, Louisiana, 1963-1965; Auburn University, 1965-1992. Member of the American Philosophical Society,  Southern Society of Philosophy and Psychology, Alabama Philosophy Society, and American Association of University Professors. Served as a member of the editorial boards of the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 1969; Personalist, 1975-1980. Awarded the George Washington Medal by the Freedom Foundation, 1971. Awarded professor emeritus status at Auburn on his retirement, 1992. Died November 8, 2003.

Source:

Who’s Who in America, 1982; Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

Imputed Rights; An Essay in Christian Social Theory.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1971.

Joint_Publications;

From Wasteland to Promised Land; Liberation Theology for a Post-Marxist World. Maryknoll, N.Y.; Orbis Books, 1992.

Editor;

Commons without Tragedy; Protecting the Environment from Overpopulation; a New Approach. London; Shepheard-Walwyn; Savage, Md.; Barnes & Noble, 1991.

Critics of Henry George; a Centenary Appraisal of Their Strictures on Progress and Poverty. Rutherford, N.J.; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1979.

Land-value; Taxation around the World. 3rd edition. Malden, MA:  Blackwell, 2000.