Howard Scott was an American engineer and founder of the Technocracy movement.
14 Facts About Howard Scott
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Howard Scott was born in Virginia in 1890 and was of Scottish-Irish descent.
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Howard Scott claimed to have been educated in Europe, but his training did not include any formal higher education.
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In 1918, shortly before the end of WWI, Howard Scott appeared in New York City.
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Howard Scott worked in various construction camps, where he picked up on-the-job engineering experience, and in 1918 was working in a cement pouring group at Muscle Shoals.
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Howard Scott ran a small business called Duron Chemical Company which made paint and floor polish at Pompton Lakes, New Jersey.
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Howard Scott's job was to deliver his goods and show his customers how to use the floor polishing material.
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Howard Scott had "overstated his academic credentials", and he was discovered not to be a "distinguished engineer".
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On January 13,1933, Howard Scott gave a speech about technocracy at New York's Hotel Pierre, before a live audience of 400, which was broadcast on radio nationwide.
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Hubbert and Howard Scott co-founded Technocracy Incorporated in 1933, with Howard Scott as leader and Hubbert as secretary.
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Howard Scott remained as the chief engineer of Technocracy Incorporated until his death in 1970.
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Howard Scott "argued indefatigably that scientific analysis of industrial production would show the path to lasting efficiency and unprecedented abundance".
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Howard Scott saw government and industry as wasteful and unfair and believed that an economy run by engineers would be efficient and equitable.
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Howard Scott called for the "price system" and fiat currencies to be replaced with a system based on how much energy it takes to produce specific goods.