The Foundation for the Study of Cycles
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The Foundation for the Study of Cycles, Inc. (FSC) is an international non-profit research organisation for the study of cycles of events. It was incorporated in the state of Connecticut by Edward R Dewey in 1941. It has published "Cycles" magazine and recorded the work of Dewey and many other cycles researchers through the years. The FSC also holds conferences and publishes its proceedings.
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History
Dewey co-authored 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, investigating cycles in many different disciplines. The FSC published a regular Cycles magazine with the best articles from these later being published as a four volume Cycles Classic Library Collection, still available as of 2006 directly from the Foundation.
Following Edward R Dewey's death, Gertrude Shirk, Jeffrey Horovitz and Richard Mogey continued to lead the FSC in turn. The present organization is governed by a board of advisers.
The Foundation is now located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and is in the process of creating and distributing modern cycles software programs suitable for continuing cycles research. The Foundations's current areas of interest include, but are not limited to, potential cycles in terrorism, disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes, global warming, and ongoing research in determining and predicting the geographic locations of observed cyclic events.
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.
- cycle 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