The Foundation for the Study of Cycles
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History of The Foundation for the Study of Cycles
The Foundation for the Study of Cycles was an organisation formed in the USA by Edward R Dewey in 1942 to study cycles in every discipline. It published a regular "Cycles" magazine and recorded the work of Dewey and many other cycles researchers. The FSC held conferences and published proceedings. Dewey co-wrote a book with Og Mandino titled Cycles: The Mysterious Forces That Trigger Events.
Edward R Dewey developed cycle studies methods suitable in the age before computing, and Dewey investigated cycles in many different disciplines, and the Foundation pubished a regular Cycles magazine with the best articles from these later being published as a four volume Cycles Classic Library Collection.
Following Edward R Dewey's death, Gertrude Shirk, Jeffrey Horovitz and Richard Mogey continued to lead the FSC in turn.
The Foundation's demise happened in the late 1990s when President Martyn Armstrong was arrested on charges of mis-appropriating millions of dollars of Japanese investors funds. In 2004 past members of the Foundation started a new organization called Cycles Research Institute to preserve the work of Dewey and other cycles researchers and to continue their work.
Research
Some discoveries of the FSC and Dewey are:
- common cycle periods appear in many seemingly unrelated disciplines.
- cycle synchrony is the observation that cycles of the same period often have the same phase.
- cycles harmonic ratios means that the common cycle periods are often related by ratios of 2, 3 and their products.
Related topics:
- A European and Russian organisation studying cycles and fluctuating phenomena is named CIFA.
- An internet discussion group on interdisciplinary cycles allows cycles researchers from different fields to exchange ideas and results.
See also
Sources
J. Murphy, 1999, "Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets", Prentice Hall, London/Sydney/Toronto.
Further reading
- Houston, William. Riding the Business Cycle
- Beckman, Robert. The Downwave
- Beckman, Robert. Into the Upwave