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September | September | September | 1 - Rentier Capitalism
Session 5 6:30 pm-7:30 pm 2025.10.01 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016  Using Brett Christopher’s Rentier Capitalism as reference, this course explores the inordinate power and wealth of large corporations to monopolize and monopsonize markets in order to maximize and extract economic rent. Though the course material focuses on rentierism in the UK … still reeling from Thatcherite privatizations of state-owned enterprises in the 80s to present day, common to all this is the giveaway and privatization of billions of dollars-worth of economic rent prevalent in Western economies today. The course underscores the importance that George gave to the control of monopolies, beyond simple land value taxation. Recommended text available at https://www.amazon.com/Rentier-Capitalism-Owns-Economy-Pays/dp/1788739728 Instructor: Dr. Marty Rowland Dates: Part 1: Wednesdays – 9/03, 9/10, 9/17, 9/24, 10/01; Part 2: Wednesdays – 10/08, 10/15, 10/22, 10/29 Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET Location: Online via Zoom Note: This is an online event. After registration, the Zoom link, along with the Meeting ID and Passcode, will be provided via email the day of each session. REGISTER NOW
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5 | 6 - Prosperity Without Tariffs
Session 5 6:30 pm-7:30 pm 2025.10.06 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016  Prosperity Without TariffsHenry George’s Protection or Free Trade was subtitled “with Special Regard to the Interests of Labor.” Yet this book and his free trade stance alienated both the unions and the Irish immigrant workers who had been his core supporters. Today, the book is popular with conservatives and Neo-libertarians as a defense of conventional free-trade policies. While both get him wrong, George’s bold stance on Free Trade, controversial as it is, may hold the key to securing prosperity without tariffs. In this two-part lecture series, Dan Sullivan will present the background context and lead a discussion of the book, beginning with Chapter 26 (True Free Trade), and then proceed through all the subsequent chapters, from Chapter 19 onward, to establish labor’s interests. Those who are interested in getting ahead of the discussion can look at the following links: Terence Powderly asks to focus on land value tax and take on protectionism only after the land tax victory is won. http://www.savingcommunities.org/docs/powderly.terence/30years08.html#cure-all Maria Mazzenga and Dan Sullivan on the interactions between Henry George, Terence Powderly, Father Edward McGlynn (video). https://vimeo.com/48893598 Protection or Free Trade, chapter 26, “True Free Trade.” https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1652#lf0448_head_027 Instructor: Dan Sullivan Dates: Part 1: Mondays: 9/08, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29, 10/06; Part 2: Mondays – 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10, 11/17 Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET Location: Online via Zoom Note: This is an online event. After registration, the Zoom link, along with the Meeting ID and Passcode, will be provided via email the day of each session. REGISTER NOW
| 7 - Economy 2.0 – A Conversation with Nicolas Franka
Webinar 1:00 pm-3:00 pm 2025.10.07 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016  Economy 2.0 – A Conversation with Nicolas Franka
Josh Sidman sits down for a conversation with Nicolas Franka. Join them live via Zoom and be part of the discussion! Nicolas Franka is an economist and founder of the Monetary Diversity network. His work focuses on alternative monetary systems and complementary currencies. He explores the intersections of ecology, economy, and society, and how money can become a tool for resilience and transition. Actively involved in cooperatives, he advocates for participatory democracy and collective intelligence as drivers of transformation. Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2025 Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET Note: This is an online event. After registration, the Zoom link, along with the Meeting ID and Passcode, will be provided via email the day of the session.
| 8 - Rentier Capitalism
Session 6 6:30 pm-7:30 pm 2025.10.08 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016 Using Brett Christopher’s Rentier Capitalism as reference, this course explores the inordinate power and wealth of large corporations to monopolize and monopsonize markets in order to maximize and extract economic rent. Though the course material focuses on rentierism in the UK … still reeling from Thatcherite privatizations of state-owned enterprises in the 80s to present day, common to all this is the giveaway and privatization of billions of dollars-worth of economic rent prevalent in Western economies today. The course underscores the importance that George gave to the control of monopolies, beyond simple land value taxation. Recommended text available at https://www.amazon.com/Rentier-Capitalism-Owns-Economy-Pays/dp/1788739728 Instructor: Dr. Marty Rowland Dates: Part 1: Wednesdays – 9/03, 9/10, 9/17, 9/24, 10/01; Part 2: Wednesdays – 10/08, 10/15, 10/22, 10/29 Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET Location: Online via Zoom Note: This is an online event. After registration, the Zoom link, along with the Meeting ID and Passcode, will be provided via email the day of each session. REGISTER NOW
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12 | 13 | 14 | 15 - Rentier Capitalism
Session 7 6:30 pm-7:30 pm 2025.10.15 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016 Using Brett Christopher’s Rentier Capitalism as reference, this course explores the inordinate power and wealth of large corporations to monopolize and monopsonize markets in order to maximize and extract economic rent. Though the course material focuses on rentierism in the UK … still reeling from Thatcherite privatizations of state-owned enterprises in the 80s to present day, common to all this is the giveaway and privatization of billions of dollars-worth of economic rent prevalent in Western economies today. The course underscores the importance that George gave to the control of monopolies, beyond simple land value taxation. Recommended text available at https://www.amazon.com/Rentier-Capitalism-Owns-Economy-Pays/dp/1788739728 Instructor: Dr. Marty Rowland Dates: Part 1: Wednesdays – 9/03, 9/10, 9/17, 9/24, 10/01; Part 2: Wednesdays – 10/08, 10/15, 10/22, 10/29 Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET Location: Online via Zoom Note: This is an online event. After registration, the Zoom link, along with the Meeting ID and Passcode, will be provided via email the day of each session. REGISTER NOW
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19 | 20 - Prosperity Without Tariffs
Session 6 6:30 pm-7:30 pm 2025.10.20 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016 Prosperity Without TariffsHenry George’s Protection or Free Trade was subtitled “with Special Regard to the Interests of Labor.” Yet this book and his free trade stance alienated both the unions and the Irish immigrant workers who had been his core supporters. Today, the book is popular with conservatives and Neo-libertarians as a defense of conventional free-trade policies. While both get him wrong, George’s bold stance on Free Trade, controversial as it is, may hold the key to securing prosperity without tariffs. In this two-part lecture series, Dan Sullivan will present the background context and lead a discussion of the book, beginning with Chapter 26 (True Free Trade), and then proceed through all the subsequent chapters, from Chapter 19 onward, to establish labor’s interests. Those who are interested in getting ahead of the discussion can look at the following links: Terence Powderly asks to focus on land value tax and take on protectionism only after the land tax victory is won. http://www.savingcommunities.org/docs/powderly.terence/30years08.html#cure-all Maria Mazzenga and Dan Sullivan on the interactions between Henry George, Terence Powderly, Father Edward McGlynn (video). https://vimeo.com/48893598 Protection or Free Trade, chapter 26, “True Free Trade.” https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1652#lf0448_head_027 Instructor: Dan Sullivan Dates: Part 1: Mondays: 9/08, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29, 10/06; Part 2: Mondays – 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10, 11/17 Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET Location: Online via Zoom Note: This is an online event. After registration, the Zoom link, along with the Meeting ID and Passcode, will be provided via email the day of each session. REGISTER NOW
| 21 - Economy 2.0: Roundtable #2
Webinar 1:00 pm-3:00 pm 2025.10.21 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016  Economy 2.0: Roundtable #2
Josh Sidman hosts Willem Buiter, Ahmed Anwar and Felix Fuders for a roundtable discussion on interest. Sign up and join the conversation live via Zoom. Interest has been a controversial subject since ancient times, drawing censure from all of the world’s major religions as well as important thinkers including Aristotle. But why does interest exist in the first place? Why does money have the power to grow? A number of different theories exist which attribute the existence of interest to such diverse causes as the fertility of nature, the productivity of capital, human nature, or a basic design flaw in our form of money. The panel consists of three distinguished economists who have written and taught on the subject of interest. Join us for an in-depth discussion of the causes and consequences of interest. Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2025 Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET Note: This is an online event. After registration, the Zoom link, along with the Meeting ID and Passcode, will be provided via email the day of the session.
| 22 - Rentier Capitalism
Session 8 6:30 pm-7:30 pm 2025.10.22 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016 Using Brett Christopher’s Rentier Capitalism as reference, this course explores the inordinate power and wealth of large corporations to monopolize and monopsonize markets in order to maximize and extract economic rent. Though the course material focuses on rentierism in the UK … still reeling from Thatcherite privatizations of state-owned enterprises in the 80s to present day, common to all this is the giveaway and privatization of billions of dollars-worth of economic rent prevalent in Western economies today. The course underscores the importance that George gave to the control of monopolies, beyond simple land value taxation. Recommended text available at https://www.amazon.com/Rentier-Capitalism-Owns-Economy-Pays/dp/1788739728 Instructor: Dr. Marty Rowland Dates: Part 1: Wednesdays – 9/03, 9/10, 9/17, 9/24, 10/01; Part 2: Wednesdays – 10/08, 10/15, 10/22, 10/29 Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET Location: Online via Zoom Note: This is an online event. After registration, the Zoom link, along with the Meeting ID and Passcode, will be provided via email the day of each session. REGISTER NOW
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26 | 27 - Prosperity Without Tariffs
Session 7 6:30 pm-7:30 pm 2025.10.27 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016 Prosperity Without TariffsHenry George’s Protection or Free Trade was subtitled “with Special Regard to the Interests of Labor.” Yet this book and his free trade stance alienated both the unions and the Irish immigrant workers who had been his core supporters. Today, the book is popular with conservatives and Neo-libertarians as a defense of conventional free-trade policies. While both get him wrong, George’s bold stance on Free Trade, controversial as it is, may hold the key to securing prosperity without tariffs. In this two-part lecture series, Dan Sullivan will present the background context and lead a discussion of the book, beginning with Chapter 26 (True Free Trade), and then proceed through all the subsequent chapters, from Chapter 19 onward, to establish labor’s interests. Those who are interested in getting ahead of the discussion can look at the following links: Terence Powderly asks to focus on land value tax and take on protectionism only after the land tax victory is won. http://www.savingcommunities.org/docs/powderly.terence/30years08.html#cure-all Maria Mazzenga and Dan Sullivan on the interactions between Henry George, Terence Powderly, Father Edward McGlynn (video). https://vimeo.com/48893598 Protection or Free Trade, chapter 26, “True Free Trade.” https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1652#lf0448_head_027 Instructor: Dan Sullivan Dates: Part 1: Mondays: 9/08, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29, 10/06; Part 2: Mondays – 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10, 11/17 Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET Location: Online via Zoom Note: This is an online event. After registration, the Zoom link, along with the Meeting ID and Passcode, will be provided via email the day of each session. REGISTER NOW
| 28 | 29 - Rentier Capitalism
Session 9 6:30 pm-7:30 pm 2025.10.29 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016 Using Brett Christopher’s Rentier Capitalism as reference, this course explores the inordinate power and wealth of large corporations to monopolize and monopsonize markets in order to maximize and extract economic rent. Though the course material focuses on rentierism in the UK … still reeling from Thatcherite privatizations of state-owned enterprises in the 80s to present day, common to all this is the giveaway and privatization of billions of dollars-worth of economic rent prevalent in Western economies today. The course underscores the importance that George gave to the control of monopolies, beyond simple land value taxation. Recommended text available at https://www.amazon.com/Rentier-Capitalism-Owns-Economy-Pays/dp/1788739728 Instructor: Dr. Marty Rowland Dates: Part 1: Wednesdays – 9/03, 9/10, 9/17, 9/24, 10/01; Part 2: Wednesdays – 10/08, 10/15, 10/22, 10/29 Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET Location: Online via Zoom Note: This is an online event. After registration, the Zoom link, along with the Meeting ID and Passcode, will be provided via email the day of each session. REGISTER NOW
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