James Dale Davidson

James Dale Davidson enters this wiki through The Sovereign Individual, the 1997 book he co-wrote with Lord William Rees-Mogg. This profile stays narrow, using the biographical details the book states about its own authors.

Work Present Here

The book identifies Davidson as a venture capitalist and entrepreneur with investments in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, and New Zealand, as well as high-tech projects in North America. With Rees-Mogg he founded and edited Strategic Investment, described in the book as one of the world’s more widely circulated private investment newsletters, through which the pair developed and road-tested many of the forecasts that became The Sovereign Individual.

Together the two authored an investment-and-history trilogy: Blood in the Streets: Investment Profits in a World Gone Mad, The Great Reckoning, and The Sovereign Individual. The first two are cited inside The Sovereign Individual itself as the earlier development of the authors’ theory of megapolitics.

Place in This Wiki

Davidson is not a libertarian theorist in the Austrian sense and is used here only as a co-author of The Sovereign Individual. His relevance is the book’s distinctive fusion of a hard-headed investor’s view of capital mobility with a violence-cost theory of the state — the argument that the information age would let wealth escape territorial taxation into a cybereconomy.

See Also

• The Sovereign Individual - the book reference

• William Rees-Mogg - co-author

• Megapolitics - the theory developed across the authors’ trilogy

• The Cybereconomy - the capital-mobility forecast central to the book

• Bitcoin Frees the Individual, Not the Collective - newsroom thesis backlink

Sources

• The Sovereign Individual (Full Text Aggregate) - author biography (about-the-authors page) and references to the earlier Strategic Investment, Blood in the Streets, and The Great Reckoning