ABOUT DR. JAMES L. GAMBLE, III

Founder of PoliticalSheepdog.com

Dr. James L. Gamble, III, is a medical doctor with strong interest and background in economics relating to social welfare.

• BA in Chemistry, Colorado College
• MD, Univ. of Miami Medical School, Florida
• Masters of Public Health and Hygiene, Johns Hopkins
• Masters of Science in Environmental Health Sciences, Univ. of Cincinnati
• Medical internship, Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
• Academic Residency in Occupational Medicine, University of Cincinnati
• Industrial Residency, Dow Chemical Corporation

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Background

Accomplishments

Beliefs

Background

James Gamble served as the medical director for the Aberdeen Proving Ground for the U.S. Army in 1990.  He currently lives in Maryland where he has had a private medical practice from 1988 - 2003.

Dr. Gamble's formal study of economic policy began during his schooling at Colorado College, where he studied introductory economics and macroeconomics.  At Johns Hopkins, he studied medical economics under David Salkever, who is known for his studies of the effects of alternative public policies on social welfare.  >From 1984 to 1986, Dr. Gamble completed a tutorial in Welfare Economics under Dr. Tom Zak of the U.S. Naval Academy.  In 1994, Dr. Gamble teamed up with Dr. John Leonard, presently with Southeastern Louisiana University, who served as his consultant, critic, and advisor in Economics.

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Accomplishments

• 1997 – An improved Definition of Rationality in Economics
• 1998 – A new theory of Intellectual Property Rights coherent to market values
• 1999 – An auction system for determining market value of Intellectual Property Rights
• 1999-2000 – Auction technology that would allow ordinary citizens to participate as lobbyists to influence social reform in democratic societies.

1997

An Improved Definition of
Rationality in Economics

Dr. Gamble published an article, "Validity, Rationality Definitions and Consumer Sovereignty” in the anthology section of the Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3, 9/97.  In this article, Dr. Gamble disproved the definitions of rationality proposed by renown rationality psychologist Jonathan Baron and Amartya Sen, a Nobel Prize winner in Economics.  Dr. Gamble's improved theory of rationality is the basis for his work in economics and social reform.

Dr. Gamble showed that Baron and Sen based their definitions of behavior on changeable dependent variables such as the psychological phenomena of choices, preferences, and utility functions instead of independent psychological phenomena such as sexual psychology, high internal discount rates, operant conditioning, bipolar personality, etc.  As a result, their definitions were based on a logical fallacy, which would result in illogical conclusions.

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1998

A New Theory of Intellectual Property Rights Coherent to Market Values

Dr. Gamble has written a yet-to-be published, and possibly the first, theory of intellectual property that is coherent with market values; that is, marginal revenue product.  The theory defends intellectual property and theoretically defines how much intellectual property a society needs.  Dr. Gamble found evidence from studies of India, the Soviet Union, and the Dark Ages, that free societies that honor intellectual property in social reform will achieve a superior quality of life for their citizens.

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1999

Auction System to Determine the Market Value
(Among a Few Innovators)

PoliticalSheepdog.com - Dr. Gamble developed a real-time auction bidding system that sustains market equilibrium with as few as two bidders.  While this has many applications, it can provide a way to determine market values for the principal contributing innovators on any given policy marketed by PoliticalSheepdog.com.

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1999-2003

Auction Technology that Allows Ordinary Citizens to Lobby for Social Reform in Democratic Societies

Dr. Gamble developed an auction system for majority rule processes with potential application in majority rule settings and other real-time participatory events.  This tool can be used for shaping public policy and tracking the progress of citizen lobbying.  This bidding system, known as a "musical chairs" auction, uses a new pooling concept to identify classes of low-bidders.  This new technology allows the creation of a market for intellectual property rights that can be shared by innovators and supporters of beneficial public policy.  This may be the first technology that would allow ordinary citizens to participate as paid lobbyists to influence social reform in democratic societies.

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Personal Beliefs

“My Vision”

From an early age, I’ve been deeply concerned about the what appeared to me to be distortions in consumer values leading to wasted health, lives, and resources.  In my medical practice and through the media, I continue to see the devastating effects of alcoholism, violence, our current prison system, government corruption, and many other destructive factors.

A continuing intuition that the world could be a better place has led me to study medicine and economics in search of answers.  Through decades of research, I have developed a vision of how citizens and legislators can work together with social reformers to improve public policy.  I believe that my technological breakthrough, PoliticalSheepdog.com, will be used in democratic societies throughout the world to develop improved public policy. 

PoliticalSheepdog.com combines the concepts of intellectual property rights, free market enterprise, and a new computer technology to offer an exciting new solution that will stop waste and reward innovation that improves the social welfare.  Registered voters will become paid lobbyists by using Internet access.  Legislators will have a new tool for monitoring public opinion.  PoliticalSheepdog.com will encourage reformers from every free society to contribute their best thinking.

I regard the development stage of PoliticalSheepdog.com as a time of exciting testing and problem solving that will be well worth the effort.  Every day that senseless waste continues in a free society is a terrible loss in resources and in thousands of lives!

I look forward to the day when tests prove the value of PoliticalSheepdog.com for developing and achieving better public policies and a better, safer world.

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Last revised:  August 29, 2003