Marty Rowland, Ph.D., P.E.
Marty is a 50-year experienced, licensed Civil and Environmental professional engineer in Louisiana and Michigan, recently retired from NYC Parks, where he consulted with landscape architects on toxic contamination of park soils and closed waste landfills.
Georgist economics expertise is an outgrowth of doctoral research in natural resource economics in Tampa and Baton Rouge, where he extended the findings of Nobel Economist Elinor Ostrom’s common pool resource management systems for water infrastructure; recently validated the research (25 years later) to include assessment of Florida’s Polk County and Orlando’s water systems.
ASTM Subcommittee Chair – Sustainable Asset Management, wrote two standards on infrastructure and safe exposure to chemicals in soil; senior fellow in Asset Leadership Network; Certified Passive House Design Professional; and Certified Permaculture Practitioner.
Widely published, he recently resigned as special editions editor for The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, taught courses at Tulane and Pace Universities, as well as (currently) the Henry George School of Social Science.
Titles of Courses/Papers Completed in Recent Years:
- Rentier Capitalism (2025)
- Chokepoint Capitalism (2025)
- Technofeudalism (2024)
- Science of Political Economy – George’s last book (2024)
- Henry George and the Money Question (2024)
- Net Zero – Obstacles Toward a Net Zero Grid (2024)
- Georgist Look at Brian Hodgkinson’s Economics (2022)
- Forests: Private Subsidy or Public Obligation (2022)
- Economic Saints and Demagogues (Huey P. Long, William Jennings Bryan, Thorstein Veblen, Allyn Young, and Cary (not Carey) (2021)
- Growth and Anarchy – Raworth and George (2021)
- Shareholder Cities, Along Indian Corridors – a Book Review (2021)
- Affordable Trailer Parks (2025)
- Bridge Rent Could Have Saved the Francis Scott Key Bridge (2025)
- Guard Railing Artificial Intelligence Through Declaration of Self (2025)
- Framework for Resolving the Transboundary Allocation Conflict Conundrum (2005)
Mnemonic Devices:
- Hope-Crisis Continuum (extending Dewey’s Arc) (1998)
- Nature’s Rent and Social Commons’ Rent (2025)
- Urban Circular Economy (2023)
Marty Rowland may be contacted directly as follows:
Cell 504-453-2898
Primary email. drmarty8@gmail.com