James Eric Davidson

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James Eric Davidson (better known simply as Jim Davidson) is a propertarian, libertarian, anarcho-capitalist and voluntaryist.

1 The Indomitus Report
2 Space Travel Services
3 Past Work
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] The Indomitus Report

Davidson is the author of The Indomitus Report, a financial and news analysis newsletter site containing numerous free essays and analytical pieces, as well as information about his philosophy and political views. Topics covered in the free sample issues include sovereignty, free market money, gold mining, space technology, launch technology, new countries, and longevity research - clearly an eclectic and somewhat extropian topic set. Information particularly relating to his free market money business enterprise is isolated at Vertoro.com. He has also been identified with^{[citation needed]} a private and free market members-only stock exchange based in New Zealand, PVCSE.

[edit] Space Travel Services

Davidson gained notoriety on 17 December 1990 when he and two colleagues announced Space Travel Services of Texas had a contract with the Soviet space agency Glavkosmos to put one American on the Mir space station for seven days. The company offered the trip in a nationwide sweepstakes. In February 1991, charges of felony gambling and promotion of a lottery were filed against Space Travel president David Mayer and Jim Davidson in Harris County, Texas.^{[citation needed]} These charges were dropped in May 1991 with an agreed injunction stipulating that the company had been conducting a lawful sweepstakes. Uncertainty created by the legal problems bankrupted the company.

[edit] Past Work

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Davidson is a former director of the National Space Society, 1989-1990; former NSS chapters assembly organizer; spoke at Chicon V, 1991; logistics manager and announcer for the first licensed commercial space launch in March 1989 (Space Services Incorporated of America's Starfire One); author of The Atlantis Papers, 1994; and a published essayist with The Libertarian Enterprise since 1995 and Free Market Network News since 2005. His academic credentials include National Merit Scholarship, 1981; John Jay Scholar, 1981; Kansas Scholar, 1981; valedictory speaker, Lawrence High School, 1981; BA in American History, Columbia College of Columbia University, 1985; MBA marketing and entrepreneurship, Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Administration, Rice University, 1987.