HENRY GEORGE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE CALENDAR

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  • Understanding the Boom Bust Cycle
    Session 1
    6:30 pm-8:30 pm
    2021.02.01
    149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016

    UNDERSTANDING THE BOOM BUST CYCLE

    Why do recessions occur in capitalist economies on a recurrent basis? Is there a single explanatory cause?

    In this 5-session course on the Boom and Bust Cycle, emeritus professor of Economics Dr. Fred Foldvary investigates the link between real estate and economic downturns otherwise known as business cycles. The course will revisit Homer Hoyt’s pioneering work as well as the role of money and interest rates in causing land bubbles.

    Session 1: Real estate and the business cycle

    Session 2: Mason Gaffney on downturns

    Session 3: Homer Hoyt and the cycle

    Session 4: Money, interest, and the cycle

    Session 5: American land bubbles

    Instructor Bio: 
    Fred Foldvary is a retired professor of economics . He received his Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University. Foldvary’s scholarly interests include public finance, real estate economics, and social ethics. Foldvary is known for his research and publications on land value taxation, community associations, and business cycles. His books include The Soul of Liberty, Public Goods and Private Communities, Dictionary of Free-Market Economics, and The Depression of 2008. Besides his articles, Fred Foldvary has written columns for www.progress.org and is one the few economists who predicted the 2007 – 2008 financial crisis.

    Dates: Mondays – 2/1, 2/8, 2/22, 3/1, 3/8
    Time: 6:30PM to 8:00PM EST

    5 sessions
    A zoom link will be provided via email before the start of the first session.

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  • Collecting Land Values: Instances, Iterations, And The Way Forward
    Session 4
    6:30 pm-8:30 pm
    2021.02.04
    149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016

    COLLECTING LAND VALUES: INSTANCES, ITERATIONS, AND THE WAY FORWARD

    What is LVT and what lessons have we learned from years of implementing it?

    In this 5-session course, Joshua Vincent will document compare and contrast land value taxation experiments in the United States and beyond. The course will define what LVT is, highlight its different manifestations in public policy and most importantly, show why it matters. It will also explain and measure progress where it exist and, discuss the reasons why LVT was rejected in some jurisdictions.

    Dates: Thursdays – 1/7, 1/21, 1/28, 2/4, 2/11 

    Time: 6:30PM to 8:00PM EST

    Instructor Bio:

    Joshua R. Vincent is the Executive Director of the New Jersey based Center for the Study of Economics. Josh has been at the forefront to the fight for promoting land value taxation in the United States for many decades. He has authored many scholarly articles on the subject and lectured widely throughout the country. He is currently educating 2021 candidates for NYC Council, NYS Senate and Assembly on LVT.

    5 sessions
    A zoom link will be provided via email before the start of the first session.

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  • Land Value Tax Breakthrough in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
    Seminar
    10:00 am-11:30 am
    2021.02.06
    149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016

    LAND VALUE TAX BREAKTHROUGH IN BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG, GERMANY

    A state in Germany has just adopted LVT, join us to catch up on the story.

    On November 5th 2020, the parliament of Baden-Wuerttemberg, the second largest state in Germany, voted to implement land value tax. In this webinar co-sponsored by the Henry George School and the International Union for Land Value Taxation, tax reform campaigner and professor Dirk Loehr discusses the political process, achievements and the implementation challenges of this tax policy breakthrough.

    Dr. Dirk Loehr, is a Professor of Taxation and Ecological Economics at the Trier University of Applied Sciences (Environment-Campus Birkenfeld), Germany. Dr. Loehr worked as tax adviser and lecturer for a private real estate academy (Sprengnetter Immobilienbewertung). He was also a consultant for the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) / German International Cooperation (GIZ) in developing countries.

    Date: Saturday February 6th, 2021

    Time: 10:00AM to 11:30AM EST

    A link to join the online seminar will be provided via email before the start of the webinar.

    Code of Conduct

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  • Understanding the Boom Bust Cycle
    Session 2
    6:30 pm-8:30 pm
    2021.02.08
    149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016

    UNDERSTANDING THE BOOM BUST CYCLE

    Why do recessions occur in capitalist economies on a recurrent basis? Is there a single explanatory cause?

    In this 5-session course on the Boom and Bust Cycle, emeritus professor of Economics Dr. Fred Foldvary investigates the link between real estate and economic downturns otherwise known as business cycles. The course will revisit Homer Hoyt’s pioneering work as well as the role of money and interest rates in causing land bubbles.

    Session 1: Real estate and the business cycle

    Session 2: Mason Gaffney on downturns

    Session 3: Homer Hoyt and the cycle

    Session 4: Money, interest, and the cycle

    Session 5: American land bubbles

    Instructor Bio: 
    Fred Foldvary is a retired professor of economics . He received his Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University. Foldvary’s scholarly interests include public finance, real estate economics, and social ethics. Foldvary is known for his research and publications on land value taxation, community associations, and business cycles. His books include The Soul of Liberty, Public Goods and Private Communities, Dictionary of Free-Market Economics, and The Depression of 2008. Besides his articles, Fred Foldvary has written columns for www.progress.org and is one the few economists who predicted the 2007 – 2008 financial crisis.

    Dates: Mondays – 2/1, 2/8, 2/22, 3/1, 3/8
    Time: 6:30PM to 8:00PM EST

    5 sessions
    A zoom link will be provided via email before the start of the first session.

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  • Collecting Land Values: Instances, Iterations, And The Way Forward
    Session 5
    6:30 pm-8:30 pm
    2021.02.11
    149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016

    COLLECTING LAND VALUES: INSTANCES, ITERATIONS, AND THE WAY FORWARD

    What is LVT and what lessons have we learned from years of implementing it?

    In this 5-session course, Joshua Vincent will document compare and contrast land value taxation experiments in the United States and beyond. The course will define what LVT is, highlight its different manifestations in public policy and most importantly, show why it matters. It will also explain and measure progress where it exist and, discuss the reasons why LVT was rejected in some jurisdictions.

    Dates: Thursdays – 1/7, 1/21, 1/28, 2/4, 2/11 

    Time: 6:30PM to 8:00PM EST

    Instructor Bio:

    Joshua R. Vincent is the Executive Director of the New Jersey based Center for the Study of Economics. Josh has been at the forefront to the fight for promoting land value taxation in the United States for many decades. He has authored many scholarly articles on the subject and lectured widely throughout the country. He is currently educating 2021 candidates for NYC Council, NYS Senate and Assembly on LVT.

    5 sessions
    A zoom link will be provided via email before the start of the first session.

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  • George’s Quest for a National Single Tax: The Land Value Income Tax (LVIT)
    Session 1
    6:30 pm-8:30 pm
    2021.02.17
    149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016

    GEORGE’S QUEST FOR A NATIONAL SINGLE TAX: The Land Value Income Tax (LVIT)

    Join us for this new series of lectures on George’s quest for the “perfect tax.”

    In less than two years after Henry George first began publishing his weekly newspaper The Standard in January 1887, he begins recording a drive (in November 1888) to replace state-wide enforcement of the single tax with a uniform national single tax governed by Congress. This series of lectures and discussions chronicles that national drive from its inception, until after the 16th Amendment is ratified in 1913, which is when the national movement and the land value income tax (LVIT) should’ve resumed, after a major setback caused by the Supreme Court in 1895, but never did.

    Session 1: Formation of the National Movement
    Wednesday, February 17, 2021

    • National Enrollment Committee

    • First National Single Tax Conference

    • Platform of the Single Tax League of the United States

    • Required Adoption of the Platform

    Session 2: Shearman Proposes “A Just and Practicable Income Tax” to the 53th Congress
    Wednesday, February 24, 2021

    • Final Months of The Standard

    • Unauthorized Alteration of the 1890 Platform

    • Ways and Means Subcommittee on Internal Revenue

    • The LVIT is Law for 7 Months, Then Ruled Unconstitutional

    Session 3: Shearman’s Temporary Return to the Statewide LVT Becomes Georgism’s Permanent Solution
    Wednesday, March 3, 2021

    • Shearman’s Response to the Ruling in Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan (1895)

    • A Fully Restored 1890 Platform Starts an Effort to Return to the National Campaign

    • Louis Post and Joseph Fels Try to Restore the LVIT after Ratification of the 16th Amendment

    • The Four Modern Land-Gain Income Taxes that Remain Relevant Today

    The instructor: Richard DiMare is a graduate of Boston College and the Massachusetts School of Law, and has been a licensed Massachusetts attorney since 2006. He is interested in only one area of law, that which helps wage-earners, both white and blue-collar, to claim a property right in their wages, thus beginning the long-overdue process of shifting the tax burden away from wages and onto unearned incomes and large estates. Richard’s interest in this area of law likely developed from his background in the commercial fishing and seafood industries, witnessing many workers fighting for survival wages, then being taxed on those wages, while passive receivers of unearned incomes were increasingly under-taxed, or not taxed at all.

    3 sessions
    A zoom link will be provided via email before the start of the first session.

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  • Understanding the Boom Bust Cycle
    Session 3
    6:30 pm-8:30 pm
    2021.02.22
    149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016

    UNDERSTANDING THE BOOM BUST CYCLE

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    Why do recessions occur in capitalist economies on a recurrent basis? Is there a single explanatory cause?

    In this 5-session course on the Boom and Bust Cycle, emeritus professor of Economics Dr. Fred Foldvary investigates the link between real estate and economic downturns otherwise known as business cycles. The course will revisit Homer Hoyt’s pioneering work as well as the role of money and interest rates in causing land bubbles.

    Session 1: Real estate and the business cycle

    Session 2: Mason Gaffney on downturns

    Session 3: Homer Hoyt and the cycle

    Session 4: Money, interest, and the cycle

    Session 5: American land bubbles

    Instructor Bio: 
    Fred Foldvary is a retired professor of economics . He received his Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University. Foldvary’s scholarly interests include public finance, real estate economics, and social ethics. Foldvary is known for his research and publications on land value taxation, community associations, and business cycles. His books include The Soul of Liberty, Public Goods and Private Communities, Dictionary of Free-Market Economics, and The Depression of 2008. Besides his articles, Fred Foldvary has written columns for www.progress.org and is one the few economists who predicted the 2007 – 2008 financial crisis.

    Dates: Mondays – 2/1, 2/8, 2/22, 3/1, 3/8
    Time: 6:30PM to 8:00PM EST

    5 sessions
    A zoom link will be provided via email before the start of the first session.

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  • George’s Quest for a National Single Tax: The Land Value Income Tax (LVIT)
    Session 2
    6:30 pm-8:30 pm
    2021.02.24
    149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016

    GEORGE’S QUEST FOR A NATIONAL SINGLE TAX: The Land Value Income Tax (LVIT)

    Join us for this new series of lectures on George’s quest for the “perfect tax.”

    In less than two years after Henry George first began publishing his weekly newspaper The Standard in January 1887, he begins recording a drive (in November 1888) to replace state-wide enforcement of the single tax with a uniform national single tax governed by Congress. This series of lectures and discussions chronicles that national drive from its inception, until after the 16th Amendment is ratified in 1913, which is when the national movement and the land value income tax (LVIT) should’ve resumed, after a major setback caused by the Supreme Court in 1895, but never did.

    Session 1: Formation of the National Movement
    Wednesday, February 17, 2021

    • National Enrollment Committee

    • First National Single Tax Conference

    • Platform of the Single Tax League of the United States

    • Required Adoption of the Platform

    Session 2: Shearman Proposes “A Just and Practicable Income Tax” to the 53th Congress
    Wednesday, February 24, 2021

    • Final Months of The Standard

    • Unauthorized Alteration of the 1890 Platform

    • Ways and Means Subcommittee on Internal Revenue

    • The LVIT is Law for 7 Months, Then Ruled Unconstitutional

    Session 3: Shearman’s Temporary Return to the Statewide LVT Becomes Georgism’s Permanent Solution
    Wednesday, March 3, 2021

    • Shearman’s Response to the Ruling in Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan (1895)

    • A Fully Restored 1890 Platform Starts an Effort to Return to the National Campaign

    • Louis Post and Joseph Fels Try to Restore the LVIT after Ratification of the 16th Amendment

    • The Four Modern Land-Gain Income Taxes that Remain Relevant Today

    The instructor: Richard DiMare is a graduate of Boston College and the Massachusetts School of Law, and has been a licensed Massachusetts attorney since 2006. He is interested in only one area of law, that which helps wage-earners, both white and blue-collar, to claim a property right in their wages, thus beginning the long-overdue process of shifting the tax burden away from wages and onto unearned incomes and large estates. Richard’s interest in this area of law likely developed from his background in the commercial fishing and seafood industries, witnessing many workers fighting for survival wages, then being taxed on those wages, while passive receivers of unearned incomes were increasingly under-taxed, or not taxed at all.

    3 sessions
    A zoom link will be provided via email before the start of the first session.

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