HENRY GEORGE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE CALENDAR

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  • Henry George and the Chinese Question
    Seminar
    6:30 pm-8:00 pm
    2022.04.01
    149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016

    HENRY GEORGE AND THE CHINESE QUESTION


    Join us for a contextualized re-examination of George’s stance on Chinese labor.

    In the late 1880s, the railroads and Western Union controlled the flow of information from California as well as to California.  We also know that railroads were the primary users of coolie labor. As a result, while Californians thought they were fighting against the importation of slave labor, people in the East thought Californians were discriminating against the Chinese. This webinar re-evaluates George’s take on the Chinese question in the light of the prevailing collusion between media giants and railroad corporations.

    Instructor: Dan Sullivan

    Date: Fri, April 1, 2022
    Time: 6:30 PM — 8:00 PM EDT

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

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  • Rethinking Economics
    Session 4
    6:30 pm-8:00 pm
    2022.04.04
    149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016

    RETHINKING ECONOMICS

    Does economics need a rethink?

    Our national debate isn’t on a pathway to solutions. It’s on a pendulum… back and forth: Do we have more government or less government? More of social services or less of social services? Raise taxes or lower taxes? These arguments don’t end. Why does economics need a rethink? Because we’re having the wrong arguments.

    This class will ask, could better ideas about what passes for economic fundamentals make capitalism more fair in its outcomes and less needy of government intervention? Is it actually possible to retire some of our political debates?

    The instructor, Stephen Taft, has worked for decades on Wall Street managing others peoples’ money. Over that time, he delved into economic studies to help him cut through the chatter that drives many investment choices. What he found there is a misbegotten justice. He is eager to share his findings.

    Instructor: Stephen Taft
    Dates: Mondays, 3/14, 3/21, 3/28, 4/04, 4/11
    Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00PM EDT

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    A link to join the online course will be provided via email before the start of the first session.

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  • Rethinking Economics
    Session 5
    6:30 pm-8:00 pm
    2022.04.11
    149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016

    RETHINKING ECONOMICS

    Does economics need a rethink?

    Our national debate isn’t on a pathway to solutions. It’s on a pendulum… back and forth: Do we have more government or less government? More of social services or less of social services? Raise taxes or lower taxes? These arguments don’t end. Why does economics need a rethink? Because we’re having the wrong arguments.

    This class will ask, could better ideas about what passes for economic fundamentals make capitalism more fair in its outcomes and less needy of government intervention? Is it actually possible to retire some of our political debates?

    The instructor, Stephen Taft, has worked for decades on Wall Street managing others peoples’ money. Over that time, he delved into economic studies to help him cut through the chatter that drives many investment choices. What he found there is a misbegotten justice. He is eager to share his findings.

    Instructor: Stephen Taft
    Dates: Mondays, 3/14, 3/21, 3/28, 4/04, 4/11
    Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00PM EDT

    REGISTER NOW

    A link to join the online course will be provided via email before the start of the first session.

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  • Do Deficits Really Matter?
    Session 1
    6:30 pm-8:00 pm
    2022.04.18
    149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016

    DO DEFICITS REALLY MATTER?

    Does the federal deficit matter or is it just one of those myths entertained by faulty economic thinking?

    Modern Money Theory (MMT), a heterodox school of macroeconomic thought asks:

    • To what degree is a country monetarily sovereign?
    • How does that impact the economic policies that country is able to pursue?

    A monetarily sovereign nation is one whose government issues its own currency, does not peg the value of that currency to any other currency or to any precious metal, and does not take on debt in any currency other than its own.

    It turns out that whether a country is monetarily sovereign or not has tremendous importance in determining the economic policies it can pursue in response to crises, be they economic, political, medical or ecological. MMT explains, for example, why the U.S. federal government can create hundreds of billions of dollars to spend in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, while state and local governments (not to mention individual households) cannot.

    In this course you will learn about MMT by doing a close reading of Stephanie Kelton’s 2020 bestseller, “The Deficit Myth.” The course will be conducted in a seminar style: six weekly sessions, in each of which the student will be expected to have read one or two chapters in Kelton’s book and worked through discussion questions. At the conclusion of this course, the student should understand MMT well enough to be able to explain it and to use MMT-based insights to understand the current political economy of the U.S. and other countries.

    Instructor: James Keenan
    Dates: Mondays, 4/18, 4/25, 5/02, 5/09, 5/16, 5/23
    Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00PM EDT

    REGISTER NOW

    A link to join the online course will be provided via email before the start of the first session.

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  • Do Deficits Really Matter?
    Session 2
    6:30 pm-8:00 pm
    2022.04.25
    149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016

    DO DEFICITS REALLY MATTER?

    Does the federal deficit matter or is it just one of those myths entertained by faulty economic thinking?

    Modern Money Theory (MMT), a heterodox school of macroeconomic thought asks:

    • To what degree is a country monetarily sovereign?
    • How does that impact the economic policies that country is able to pursue?

    A monetarily sovereign nation is one whose government issues its own currency, does not peg the value of that currency to any other currency or to any precious metal, and does not take on debt in any currency other than its own.

    It turns out that whether a country is monetarily sovereign or not has tremendous importance in determining the economic policies it can pursue in response to crises, be they economic, political, medical or ecological. MMT explains, for example, why the U.S. federal government can create hundreds of billions of dollars to spend in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, while state and local governments (not to mention individual households) cannot.

    In this course you will learn about MMT by doing a close reading of Stephanie Kelton’s 2020 bestseller, “The Deficit Myth.” The course will be conducted in a seminar style: six weekly sessions, in each of which the student will be expected to have read one or two chapters in Kelton’s book and worked through discussion questions. At the conclusion of this course, the student should understand MMT well enough to be able to explain it and to use MMT-based insights to understand the current political economy of the U.S. and other countries.

    Instructor: James Keenan
    Dates: Mondays, 4/18, 4/25, 5/02, 5/09, 5/16, 5/23
    Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00PM EDT

    REGISTER NOW

    A link to join the online course will be provided via email before the start of the first session.

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