The Ideas Behind Constitutions and their Role in Securing and Protecting or Violating Human Rights – The Case of the United States of America
Session 10

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The Ideas Behind Constitutions and their Role in Securing and Protecting or Violating Human Rights – The Case of the United States of America

In this new lecture series, Edward J. Dodson will present nearly two and a half century of ideological and political struggles over the system of governance and law mandated under the Constitution of the United States. For Americans, these lectures will hopefully stimulate thoughtfulness as they prepare to elect a President and members of the U.S. Congress and for citizens of other countries, provide a concise overview of the major forces and events that gave rise to the “American System.”

Instructor: Edward J. Dodson

Dates: Mondays – 9/09, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/07, 10/14, 10/21, 10/28, 11/04, 11/11

Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 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.

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The Ideas Behind Constitutions and their Role in Securing and Protecting or Violating Human Rights – The Case of the United States of America
Session 9

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The Ideas Behind Constitutions and their Role in Securing and Protecting or Violating Human Rights – The Case of the United States of America

In this new lecture series, Edward J. Dodson will present nearly two and a half century of ideological and political struggles over the system of governance and law mandated under the Constitution of the United States. For Americans, these lectures will hopefully stimulate thoughtfulness as they prepare to elect a President and members of the U.S. Congress and for citizens of other countries, provide a concise overview of the major forces and events that gave rise to the “American System.”

Instructor: Edward J. Dodson

Dates: Mondays – 9/09, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/07, 10/14, 10/21, 10/28, 11/04, 11/11

Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 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.

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The Ideas Behind Constitutions and their Role in Securing and Protecting or Violating Human Rights – The Case of the United States of America
Session 8

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The Ideas Behind Constitutions and their Role in Securing and Protecting or Violating Human Rights – The Case of the United States of America

In this new lecture series, Edward J. Dodson will present nearly two and a half century of ideological and political struggles over the system of governance and law mandated under the Constitution of the United States. For Americans, these lectures will hopefully stimulate thoughtfulness as they prepare to elect a President and members of the U.S. Congress and for citizens of other countries, provide a concise overview of the major forces and events that gave rise to the “American System.”

Instructor: Edward J. Dodson

Dates: Mondays – 9/09, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/07, 10/14, 10/21, 10/28, 11/04, 11/11

Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 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.

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Privatize the Methods, Publicize the Profits
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Privatize the Methods, Publicize the Profits

In this webinar, Mr. Jamal Thomas will discuss his work on reproducing Georgist economic prescriptions in a completely private banking structure to address housing affordability and efficient taxation.

Mr. Thomas is a college student at El Camino College, where he studies electrical engineering. He spent approximately six years in the United States Navy as a Nuclear Machinist Mate. His concerns for housing affordability and efficient taxation led him to writing “Privatize the Methods, Publicize the Profits,” as well as joining California Common Ground to advocate community and state-wide political changes. He won first place in the 2024 HGSSS Writing Contests (College/University & Graduate Students).

Date: Friday, October 25, 2024

Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET

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The Ideas Behind Constitutions and their Role in Securing and Protecting or Violating Human Rights – The Case of the United States of America
Session 7

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The Ideas Behind Constitutions and their Role in Securing and Protecting or Violating Human Rights – The Case of the United States of America

In this new lecture series, Edward J. Dodson will present nearly two and a half century of ideological and political struggles over the system of governance and law mandated under the Constitution of the United States. For Americans, these lectures will hopefully stimulate thoughtfulness as they prepare to elect a President and members of the U.S. Congress and for citizens of other countries, provide a concise overview of the major forces and events that gave rise to the “American System.”

Instructor: Edward J. Dodson

Dates: Mondays – 9/09, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/07, 10/14, 10/21, 10/28, 11/04, 11/11

Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 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.

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Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War
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Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War

In this webinar, Pr. Branko Milanovic will present an overview of his latest book, “Visions of Inequality – From the French Revolution to the end of the Cold War.” The talk will delve into how income distribution has been perceived throughout the ages by six of the world’s most influential economists. The question as to why inequality studies were eclipsed during the Cold War, before their remarkable resurgence as a central preoccupation in economics today, will be also covered.

The presenter, Professor Branko Milanovic is a senior scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at CUNY. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Belgrade with a dissertation on income inequality in Yugoslavia. He served as lead economist in World Bank Research Department for almost 20 years and as a senior associate at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington from 2003 to 2005. He has held teaching appointments at the University of Maryland (2007-2013) and at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University (1997-2007).

His book, The Haves and the Have-nots (2011) was selected by The Globalist as the 2011 Book of the Year. His book Global Inequality (2016) was awarded the Bruno Kreisky Prize for the best political book of 2016 and the Hans Matthöfer Prize in 2018. It was translated into sixteen languages.

In March 2018, Professor Milanovic was awarded (jointly with Mariana Mazzucato) the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Knowledge.

Date: Thursday, October 17, 2024

Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET

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The Ideas Behind Constitutions and their Role in Securing and Protecting or Violating Human Rights – The Case of the United States of America
Session 6

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The Ideas Behind Constitutions and their Role in Securing and Protecting or Violating Human Rights – The Case of the United States of America

In this new lecture series, Edward J. Dodson will present nearly two and a half century of ideological and political struggles over the system of governance and law mandated under the Constitution of the United States. For Americans, these lectures will hopefully stimulate thoughtfulness as they prepare to elect a President and members of the U.S. Congress and for citizens of other countries, provide a concise overview of the major forces and events that gave rise to the “American System.”

Instructor: Edward J. Dodson

Dates: Mondays – 9/09, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/07, 10/14, 10/21, 10/28, 11/04, 11/11

Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 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.

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Locke and George on Original Acquisition
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Locke and George on Original Acquisition

In this webinar, Mr. Paul Forrester will discuss how natural resources, especially land, play an important role in many economic problems society faces today, including the climate crisis, housing shortages and severe inequality. Mr. Forrester will present a comparison of Lockean and Georgist natural governance regimes and analysis of their distributive implications.

Mr. Forrester is a PhD student in the Philosophy Department at Yale University writing a dissertation about the institutions that make economic cooperation possible, and how we can both grow the economic pie and divide it more equitably. He won second place in the 2024 HGSSS Writing Contests (College/University & Graduate Students).

Date: Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET

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The Ideas Behind Constitutions and their Role in Securing and Protecting or Violating Human Rights – The Case of the United States of America
Session 5

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The Ideas Behind Constitutions and their Role in Securing and Protecting or Violating Human Rights – The Case of the United States of America

In this new lecture series, Edward J. Dodson will present nearly two and a half century of ideological and political struggles over the system of governance and law mandated under the Constitution of the United States. For Americans, these lectures will hopefully stimulate thoughtfulness as they prepare to elect a President and members of the U.S. Congress and for citizens of other countries, provide a concise overview of the major forces and events that gave rise to the “American System.”

Instructor: Edward J. Dodson

Dates: Mondays – 9/09, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/07, 10/14, 10/21, 10/28, 11/04, 11/11

Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 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.

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Masters of Money: Satoshi Nakamoto – Bitcoin’s Mystery Inventor
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Masters of Money: Satoshi Nakamoto – Bitcoin’s Mystery Inventor

In his 2008 Whitepaper, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, Satoshi Nakamoto introduced, and then implemented in running code, a protocol for a truly disintermediated two-party peer-to-peer transactions in reified value. The underlying problem which Satoshi solves is how to transfer value–a somewhat different issue than the simple store-of-value questions which Gesell deals with. This talk will address the larger question of ‘what is value?’ and will contrast Satoshi’s ideas with the ‘value investing’ practices of Benjamin Graham/Warren Buffet/Charlie Munger that have dominated value theory for the past 70 years. And because this talk will rest on that comparison, it will effectively be offering two ‘Masters of Money’ for the price of one: both Satoshi Nakamoto and Warren Buffet.

The instructor, W. E. Perry has for decades been engaged in developing the tools of Semantic Analysis, which are specifically conceived as the preferable alternative to statistical, and especially stochastic methods in the understanding of determinism, causality, and the emergence of new properties and methods as those are reflected in data from a variety of disciplines.

Date: Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM ET

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