Masters of Money: Now, More than Ever. And Just in Time – Frederick Soddy’s Winning Trifecta
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Masters of Money: Now, More than Ever. And Just in Time – Frederick Soddy’s Winning Trifecta

In this first session of our Masters of Money series, Joe Bongiovanni will engage in a conversation on Nobel laureate Dr. Frederick Soddy’s unique work on the national economy’s broken “wealth-distributing” mechanism via our existing money system, and on society’s need for achieving ecological balance . The talk will highlight Soddy’s relevance by discussing his pioneering contribution on ‘internalizing’ the cost of environmental degradation that is regularly ‘externalized’ in today’s model of Finance Capitalism.

Joe Bongiovanni is, perhaps uniquely, a second-generation monetary reformer and the former Director of Vermont’s Kettle Pond Institute for Debt-Free Money. Joe is a Founding Member of the U.S.-based Alliance For Just Money (Inc.) and for over a decade Joe has been a regular speaker at the American Monetary Institute’s (AMI) Annual Monetary Reform Conference.

Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM ET

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Poverty Perpetuation, Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Reforms
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Poverty Perpetuation, Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Reforms

This talk will investigate the determinants and mechanisms of poverty perpetuation with a view to challenging mainstream academic discourse. We will review Henry George’s theory in an effort to understand why development in modern technology, social services, and education fails to alleviate poverty, and why the growing wealth of industrialized economies tends to stay concentrated in fewer hands. We will look into various growth models to understand the steady state of rich and poor economies, their technical issues, and policy implications, and lastly how the ecological imbalance and climate change impact poverty and vice versa.

The speaker, Nishu Mehrish is a PhD candidate in Economics at the New School of Social Research, NY.

Date: Thursday, September 5, 2024

Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET

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The Rise of Automation and AI – Curse or Blessing for the Working Class?
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The Rise of Automation and AI – Curse or Blessing for the Working Class?

Adaptation to technological disruption has always been a defining characteristic of advanced capitalist economies, but are we prepared for what’s coming next – meaning, artificial intelligence and automation? With the release of applications such as ChatGPT and the like, many analysts are indeed asking this question. This panel of three distinguished speakers will discuss the impact of AI and Automation on labor markets and highlight possible policy responses.

Speakers

Edward J. Dodson, Faculty member, Henry George School of Social Science, New York

Dr. Sandeep Sacheti, Executive Vice President, Wolters Kluwer

Dr. Ansel Schiavone, Professor of Economics, St. John’s University

Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET

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Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar? How to end the US fiscal impasse?
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IS IT LAWFUL TO PAY TAXES TO CAESAR? HOW TO END THE US FISCAL IMPASSE?

In his two most recent HGSSS talks, Dr. Perry described current Federal Reserve policies as unprecedented but apparently required by competing political dynamics which make it impossible for Congress either to raise taxes or to cut spending. This latest talk presents a deep analysis of the theories, the history, and the politics of Federal taxation and spending, and offers specifics for the implementation of a Georgist alternative to resolve the current fiscal impasse.

The instructor, Dr. W. E. Perry, has long been engaged in developing the tools of semantic analysis to help better understand determinism, causality, and the emergence of new properties from a variety of data sources.

Instructor: Dr. W. E. Perry

Date: Wed, April 24, 2024
Time: 6:30 PM — 8:00 PM ET

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Residential Property and Local Economic Development in a Rust Belt City
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RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN A RUST BELT CITY

This talk will explore the dynamics of residential housing in Pittsburgh and will focus on the development of affordable units and the challenge of vacant properties faced by a City that has dealt with heavy industrial decline. Through the lens of Henry George, split rate tax policy, gentrification, and abandoned properties are discussed with the intent of better understanding how the history of the City and its housing policies impact current residents.

Matthew Colantonio is a graduate of the Peter J. Tobin College of Business with a BS in Business. After graduation, he worked as an AmeriCorps Volunteer in local economic development in his hometown of Pittsburgh. He then earned a MS in Applied Economics from Boston College. Matthew currently works as a Statistician for the Pennsylvania Department of Health in the Bureau of Informatics and Information Technology.

Date: Thursday, April 11, 2024

Time: 6:30 PM — 7:30 PM ET

Location: ONLINE via Zoom

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