Team - The Adams Institute For the Preservation of the Democratic-Republican Model of Government

Team

Directors

Tim Ferguson

Tim founded The Adams Institute in 2020 to translate the lessons of history into practical policy solutions. He earlier conceived the idea of median-top household wealth tethering as a method to answer Aristotle’s advice to legislators that they backsolve for a majority middle class and drafted our proposed Amendment drawing on skills learned during his professional career as a corporate attorney.

Tim holds a B.A. in political science from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law, and has dedicated his energy and intellect to the study of political economy, constitutional law, and historical cycles for more than 20 years.

Advisors

David C. Gore

David is a professor of rhetoric and public affairs, focused on history, political economy, and constitutional theory. He currently serves on the faculty of the University of Minnesota Duluth, where he was previously department head of the Communication Department. His teaching philosophy – which he applies across varied courses in public discourse, globalization, global political economy, self-awareness and the four cardinal virtues, and Enlightenment and Classical philosophy – centers upon the goal of enabling students to capably discuss public affairs, discharge their duties as responsible citizens, and live good and virtuous lives.

David holds a PhD in Rhetoric & Public Affairs from Texas A&M University, where his dissertation explored the rhetoric of economic arguments, especially arguments in favor of free markets and their relation to ethics and religion. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Wyoming.

John R. Taylor, Jr.

John is an expert on macroeconomics, finance, and historical and economic cycles. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Taylor Global Vision, a highly specialized firm focusing on global currency, rates, commodities and equity analysis and macro trade structuring and trading. Before that, he was Founder and Chairman of FX Concepts, at one time the largest foreign currency exchange hedge fund in the world, with $14 billion under management. FX Concepts was originally organized as a research and consulting firm, selling analysis to, and performing services for, major US corporations with a global presence (the firm’s first clients included Coca Cola, RJ Reynolds, Kodak, and Armstrong Cork) before moving to currency management in overlays (becoming the first firm to perform those activities) and in absolute return strategies.

John holds a PhD honoris causa from Franklin University Switzerland and is Trustee Emeritus, where he served as Chairman of the Board for 11 years, and in whose name The Taylor Institute was established in 2010. The mission of The Taylor Institute is to advance academic knowledge and generate innovations in business theory and practice, including competitiveness, collaborative practices, and sustainability. John is ABD (PhD), Political Science, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he had a NDEA Title IV fellowship and NIH support. At UNC, he lectured on European and French political systems and his studies focused on quantitative political science, including political statistics and public opinion. He also worked for ABC News on election forecasting. He went to work at Chemical Bank as their political analyst before completing his dissertation on the relationship between economic development and political development in Italy. John holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, where he studied European studies and civilization.

Property monopolized, or in the Possession of a Few is a Curse to Mankind. We should preserve not an Absolute Equality – this is unnecessary, but preserve all from extreme Poverty, and all others from extravagant Riches.

John Adams, 1765