Curriculum Vita
May 2010
Bob Blain, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
(618) 656-5706 email: rblain@siue.edu
Degrees
1960 B.A. University of Massachusetts
1960-61 University of Wisconsin Graduate School
1961-64 M.A. Harvard University
1967 Ph.D. University of Massachusetts
Academic Affiliations
1966-68 Instructor to Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University
1968-to 2001 Associate to Full Professor, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
2001 to the present Emeritus Professor of Sociology
Publications
Books
1961 With Alan D. Osterndorf, Decision Guide for the Muskego-Norway Joint School District, Cooperate Education Research and Services, University of Wisconsin.
1967 Values as Products of Work Experiences. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Massachusetts, January, 1967.
1979 Toward World Cooperation: With a proposal for a world price standard. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
1979 The American Iceberg: Debt, Inflation, and Hour Money's Worth. Unpublished. Updated in 2009.
1990 The Historic Cooperative Village of Leclaire: A Centennial Collection. Recipient of Certificate of Excellence from the State of Illinois Historical Society.
1997 A History of the Cooperative Village of Leclaire. Expansion of Centennial Collection.
1998 National Wealth and Poverty. 300 page manuscript, unpubished.
2004 The Most Wealth for the Least Work Through Cooperation. Authorhouse.com.
2004 Weaving Golden Threads of Sociological Theory. Authorhouse.com.
2009 Who Was Edme Jean Leclaire? His 1850 pamphlet on ending poverty and his 1878 biolography, translated from French.
2010 Weaving Golden Threads: Integrating Social theory. 2nd edition. Institute for Economic Democracy. Radford, Virginia.
Articles
1970 A critique of Parsons' four-function paradigm, Sociological Quarterly 11: 157-168.
1971 On Homans' psychological reductionism, Sociological Inquiry 4 1, Winter: 3-25.
1971 An alternative to Parsons' four-function paradigm as a basis for developing general sociological theory, American Sociological Review 36, August: 678-692.
1972 Reply to Beeghley, Sociological Quarterly, Spring.
1974 Parsons' hierarchy of control and the codification variable of the ICL theory, Indian Journal of Social Research 15: August & December: 179-189.
1982 The necessary characteristics of a monetary standard, Appendix to the Gold Commission Report, Washington, D.C.
1984 Syllabus for Sociology 550, Survey of Theory, in Teaching Social Theory, sponsored by the ASA Teaching Resources Center, 1722 N. Street NW Washington, D.C. 20036.
1985 The information chain theory of cooperation, International Journal of Comparative Sociology 26, March-June: 75-89.
1987 United States Public and Private Debt: 1791-2000, International Social Science Journal 114, November: 577-591.
1996 Defining exchange rate parity in terms of GDP per hour of work. Applied Behavioral Science Review. Vol. 4, Number 1, pages 55-79.
2001 The story of the information chain theory. Edwardsville Journal of Sociology.http://www.siue.edu/sociology/EJS/blain.htm
2002 The cooperation equation and red or green. Edwardsville Journal of Sociology http://www.siue.edu/sociology/EJS/v2blain2002.htm
2002 The hour is de facto the world money unit. In: Mieczyslaw Dobija (Ed.) Monetary Unit Stability in Holistic Approach. Leon Kozminski Academy, Warsaw, Poland. Pp. 27-53.
2008 Mending the Meltdown: Engineering a Recovery, The India Economy Review, Vol. V, 31 December 2008.
Conferences Presentations
1967 Dimensions of individualism, college major, and curricula, Ohio Valley Sociological Society, April.
1969 A critique of Parsons’ Four Function Paradigm, Midwest-Ohio Valley Sociological Societies Joint Meeting, May.
1970 A reformulation of Parsons’ economy-household double interchange: a new basis for developing general theory. Illinois Sociological Association, October.
1972 A general theory for sociology, American Sociological Association, New Orleans, August.
1974 A solution for inflation: a sociological perspective, Illinois Sociological Association, Chicago, November.
1979 A new paradigm and general sociological theory, Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis, Minn. April.
1979 Making money a more accurate measure of value, Eastern Economics Association, Boston. May.
1980 Money needs a real unit. St. Louis Monetary Realists, March.
1982 The necessary characteristics of a monetary standard, Eastern Economics Association, Washington, D.C.
1983 The information chain theory of cooperation, Midwest Sociological Society, Kansas City, Mo. April.
1983 The information chain theory, North Central Sociological Association, Columbus, Ohio.
1984 Swords to plowshares, Peace Conference, Little Rock, Arkansas.
1984 Marx, serial capitalism and debt, Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, March.
1985 The political economy of the debt spiral, Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, March.
1985 United States Public and Private Debt: 1791 – 2000, Eastern Economics Association, Pittsburg, PA, April.
1986 Beating debt money through the courts, Eastern Economics Association, Philadelphia, April 12.
1986 Life expectancy as the basis for the theoretical unification of sociology, Illinois Sociological Association, College of Dupage.
1986 to 1998 - Board member of Sovereignty, whose goal is to fund public facilities with U.S. Treasury money interest-free.
1987 Improving life expectancy by enlarging the scale of cooperation, Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago.
1989 The convergence of currency exchange rates from 1950 to 1985, Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, April 6.
1989 Cooperation: the Wealth of Nations Game, Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, April 9.
1993 Income equality and national wealth, Illinois Sociological Association, Rockford, Illinois.
1994 The role of exchange rates and the International Monetary Fund in the maintenance of First World hegemony, Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis.
1994 Causes of national wealth, Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis.
1994 Neutralizing the IMF with time money, Midwest Radical Scholars and Activists Conference, Loyola University, Chicago, October.
1995 Ethics, economics, and ecology, St. Louis Ethical Society,
1997 The end of world population growth: A least squares analysis of world population growth from 1950 to 1995. http://www.siue.edu/~rblain
2002 The hour as the de facto world money unit. International Conference on Monetary Unit Stability in Holistic Approach. Leon Kozminski Academy, Warsaw, Poland. April.
2002 Global harmony with hour money. Association for Humanist Sociology, Madison, Wisconsin. October.
2002 What’s wrong with the Euro? St. Louis Ethical Society.
2002 Looking Backward: 2000-1887: What went wrong and what can we do about it? University of the Third Age, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri.
2003 Creating economic justice. Emerson Unitarian Universalist Chapel, Ellisville, Missouri.
2004 Four requirements for permanent peace and sustainable global prosperity, International Philosophers for Peace Conference, Radford University, Virginia.
2004 World Federation or United Nations reform? St. Louis Ethical Society. July.
2005 The root of United States public and private debt. American Monetary Institute, Chicago, Illinois.
2006 Earth Federation: with or without the United States. Ninth Provisional World Parliament. Tripoli, Libya. April.
2006 Beyond capitalism: confronting the endless growth paradigm. Invited by Economic Reform Australia for a month long tour making presentations in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, and Adelaide. August.
2006 Time Money: The substance of world government. Third Global Symposium: Toward a New World Civilization. Lucknow, India. December.
2007 Equitable currency exchange rates. Tenth Provisional World Parliament. Kara, Togo, Africa. June.
2007 Democratic money: Antidote to empire. International Philosophers for Peace, Radford University, Radford, Virginia in May; and the American Monetary Institute, Chicago, Illinois in September.
2008 Time Money: Bell the Cats. PROUT World Summit, Radford University, Radford, Virginia, June.
2008 The most important form of sovereignty: Control of one’s own life. PROUT World Summit, Radford University, Radford, Virginia, June.
2008 Economic democracy. St. Louis Ethical Society (August) and the American Monetary Institute (September).
2008 Ecological economics. St. Louis Ethical Society, August.
2008 The bad math of interest. American Monetary Institute, Chicago, September.
2009 A metric for money. International Conference on Social Science, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 4-7.
2010 A metric for money. The Global Crisis and Beyond Conference, Global Studies Association, University of Illinois Champaign, May 8.
Other
1979 Cooperation: The Wealth of Nations Game - an economics simulation boardgame.
1980 – 1986 Time Money: The next great revolution. A WSIE monthly 30 minute radio program, 61 programs.
1982 The Debt Dilemma. A 28.5 minute video on the growth of United states debt from 1790 to 2000.
1983 Money Talks, a biweekly local cable TV program.
1986 Speaker on a panel in a video on government creation of money. This video prompted the following invitation.
1991 Invited by the Democratic Party of New Zealand to tour New Zealand for a month to explain government creation of money to government, newspapers, and radio audiences.
2002 Cooperation: The Wealth of Nations Game computer version.
2003 Currency exchange rate targets for 2004. Mailed to directors of the International Monetary Fund.
2006 Delegate to the 9th Provisional World Parliament Session, April, Libya, Africa.
2007 Delegate to the 10th Provisional World Parliament Session, Kara, Togo, Africa.
2009-2010 Mailed letters to about 200 top leaders of about 50 countries recommending that they use an hour of work as their currency unit.
2009 The American Iceberg: Debt, inflation, and hour money's worth. Updated. Unpublished.
Courses Taught
Introductory sociology, classical and contemporary theory, methods, statistics, inequality, social change, social movements, demography, cooperation and conflict, national wealth and poverty, the sociology of money, and leadership.
Current Priority
Promoting an hour of work based on GDP per hour as the standard for denominating and exchanging currencies.