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  • The Money System, Our Economy and You
    Seminar
    12:00 pm-2:30 pm
    2019.03.02
    149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016

    The Money System, Our Economy and You

    The Henry George School of Social Science is proud to introduce Money Talks, a new series of workshops and seminars that discusses current issues and events in the economy in the light of our credit and monetary system.

    The series will quick off on Saturday March 2nd with three distinguished guest speakers, Joe Bongiovanni Founder and Director of the Kettle Pond Institute for Debt-free Money in Vermont, Randy Cook, President of the National Organization for Raw Materials and Jamie Walton interim Director of the American Monetary Institute.

    Speakers:

    Jamie Walton
    Topic: Money, Democracy and Sustainability

    Joe Bongiovanni
    Topic: Discussion on Minsky, Modern Political-Economy and Capitalism

    Randy Cook
    Topic: Sound Economics and Sustainable Prosperity – The History that you may not Know.

    Moderator: Sue Peters

    Location: 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016
    Date: Saturday, March 2, 2019
    Time: 12:00 PM – 2:30 PM

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  • MONEY AND BANKING
    Session 3
    6:30 pm-8:30 pm
    2019.03.06
    149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016

    This course will provide a set of tools to analyze the interaction between monetary policy, the real economy and the financial sector in general. The course will combine a study of the relevant theories with applications to recent events and policy debates. In this connection Henry George’s concept of money will be explored as well as the relations between finance and land markets.

    Instructor: Allen Smith
    Location: 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016
    Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
    Dates: Wednesdays: 2/20, 2/27, 3/6, 3/13, 3/20

    Main Texts:
    H. George, The Science of Political Economy, Part 5
    R. Werner, Where does Money Come from

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  • THE NEW ECONOMICS OF THE BUSINESS CYCLE
    Session 1
    6:30 pm-8:30 pm
    2019.03.11
    149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016

    Upheavals in how the U.S. economy operates have transformed Americans from wealth creators to creative borrowers. This course looks at how abandoning the Gold Standard, a bulwark of the world economy since the Industrial Revolution, has helped replace capital accumulation and investment with credit-fueled consumption. Will this revolutionary shift usher in a new era of growth or lead to yet another wave of cyclical depressions? What is the role of land in this process? This five-lesson course will highlight structural changes to the U.S. economy since the demise of the World War II-spawned financial order, also known as the Bretton Woods system.

    Instructor: Dr. Ibrahima Drame
    Location: 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016
    Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
    Dates: Mondays: 3/4, 3/11, 3/18, 3/25, 4/1

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  • PROGRESS AND POVERTY
    Session 4
    6:30 pm-8:30 pm
    2019.03.12
    149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016

     

    Through an intense and thorough analysis of George’s seminal work, Progress & Poverty, this course will take aim at the fundamental problem of wealth distribution and show that the only viable alternative to “bad capitalism” is not socialism but “true capitalism”; where socially created wealth is put to the service of the community rather than privatized. The course will lay out George’s simple but radical remedy, so that we may avoid the insanity of trying the same solutions and expect different results.

    Instructor: Marty Rowland, Ibrahima Drame, Ron Rubin, Michael Bucher
    Location: 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016
    Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
    Dates: 2/5, 2/12, 2/26, 3/12, 4/9, 4/16

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  • MONEY AND BANKING
    Session 4
    6:30 pm-8:30 pm
    2019.03.13
    149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016

    This course will provide a set of tools to analyze the interaction between monetary policy, the real economy and the financial sector in general. The course will combine a study of the relevant theories with applications to recent events and policy debates. In this connection Henry George’s concept of money will be explored as well as the relations between finance and land markets.

    Instructor: Allen Smith
    Location: 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016
    Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
    Dates: Wednesdays: 2/20, 2/27, 3/6, 3/13, 3/20

    Main Texts:
    H. George, The Science of Political Economy, Part 5
    R. Werner, Where does Money Come from

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  • Land, Wealth, Women, Power and Taxes
    Seminar
    3:00 pm-5:00 pm
    2019.03.20
    149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016


    Land, Wealth, Women, Power and Taxes

    Women, Land, Wealth Inequality and Taxes will address the power of public finance to help or to hurt the status and well-being of women worldwide. The three speakers (from Honduras, Costa Rica and the US) are ECOSOC UN NGO officers for an international organization whose major focus is land and taxation.

    They will address the impact of land value-based taxes on women’s rights to land, clean air and water, housing and health versus destructive land use, poverty and wealth inequality.

    You will learn about a practical public finance approach that is a key policy of UN HABITAT’s New Urban Agenda endorsed by consensus of the UN General Assembly. This policy is based on the principles of both freedom and fairness and is “out of the box” of left versus right.

    SPEAKERS

    Wendy Rockwell
    Former city councilor. Environmental, peace and Justice activist.

    Wendy was involved in efforts to keep the School of the Americas out of Costa Rica and in protecting local streams so that they can remain viable ecosystems and not have their waters extracted beyond their survival.

    Dr. Quisia Gonzalez
    Vice President for Honduras for the International Union for Land Value Taxation (the IU) and also the IU’s Main Non-Governmental Organization Representative to the United Nations holding consultancy status with the UN’s Economic and Social Council.

    Alanna Hartzok
    Administrative Director and a UN NGO representative for the International Union for Land Value Taxation, and co-founder/co-director of Earth Rights Institute.

    Location: 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016
    Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
    Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2019

    Space is limited, please Register

  • MONEY AND BANKING
    Session 5
    6:30 pm-8:30 pm
    2019.03.20
    149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016

    This course will provide a set of tools to analyze the interaction between monetary policy, the real economy and the financial sector in general. The course will combine a study of the relevant theories with applications to recent events and policy debates. In this connection Henry George’s concept of money will be explored as well as the relations between finance and land markets.

    Instructor: Allen Smith
    Location: 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016
    Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
    Dates: Wednesdays: 2/20, 2/27, 3/6, 3/13, 3/20

    Main Texts:
    H. George, The Science of Political Economy, Part 5
    R. Werner, Where does Money Come from

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  • THE NEW ECONOMICS OF THE BUSINESS CYCLE
    Session 2
    6:30 pm-8:30 pm
    2019.03.25
    149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016

    Upheavals in how the U.S. economy operates have transformed Americans from wealth creators to creative borrowers. This course looks at how abandoning the Gold Standard, a bulwark of the world economy since the Industrial Revolution, has helped replace capital accumulation and investment with credit-fueled consumption. Will this revolutionary shift usher in a new era of growth or lead to yet another wave of cyclical depressions? What is the role of land in this process? This five-lesson course will highlight structural changes to the U.S. economy since the demise of the World War II-spawned financial order, also known as the Bretton Woods system.

    Instructor: Dr. Ibrahima Drame
    Location: 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016
    Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
    Dates: Mondays: 3/11, 3/25, 4/1, 4/8, 4/15

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  • Amazon’s Retreat: Good for New York?
    Seminar
    6:00 pm-9:00 pm
    2019.03.26
    149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016


    Amazon’s Retreat: Good for New York?

    Join The Henry George School for a lively panel discussion of the latest developments in the Amazon HQ2 deal and their potential impact on New York families and businesses. Panelists include credit/risk management expert Jeffrey Previdi, real estate insider Denise Favorule, anti-gentrification activist Dee Raymond, environmental/civil engineer Marty Rowland, and researcher Bridget Fisher. The panel presentations will be followed by a community Q&A.

    Location: 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016
    Time: 6:00 PM
    Date: March 26, 2018

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  • FREE TRADE AND GLOBALIZATION
    Session 1
    6:30 pm-8:30 pm
    2019.03.27
    149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016

    This course familiarizes students with theories and policies of international trade. Students will learn the importance of international trade and examine its effects on production, profits and the distribution of wealth in the economy. The course will introduce concepts such as comparative advantage, increasing returns to scale, factor endowments…etc.… Students will also analyze specific trade agreements and discuss their impact on the American working class.

    Instructor: Stephen Taft
    Location: 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016
    Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
    Dates: Wednesdays: 3/27, 4/3, 4/10, 4/17, 4/24
    Main Texts: H. George, Protection or Free Trade

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