Henry George School of Social Science Calendar
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- 0101.March.Monday
Understanding the Boom Bust Cycle
Session 4149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016UNDERSTANDING 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 EST5 sessions
A zoom link will be provided via email before the start of the first session. - 0202.March.TuesdayNo events
- 0303.March.Wednesday
George’s Quest for a National Single Tax: The Land Value Income Tax (LVIT)
Session 3149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016GEORGE’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. - 0404.March.ThursdayNo events
- 0505.March.FridayNo events
- 0606.March.SaturdayNo events