Capitalism – The Anglo- American Liberal Democratic Model
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Capitalism – The Anglo- American Liberal Democratic Model

Capitalism, the dominant economic system in today’s world is also widely credited for the wealth and progress of nations. However, the great success stories often come with a growing polarization of society between haves and have nots. In this interactive seminar, Michael Bucher looks at the Anglo-American experiment, and asks what went wrong and why true capitalism is the only sensible path to reforming capitalism.

Location: Henry George School of Social Science, 149 East 38th Street (Between Lexington & 3rd Avenue) New York, NY 10016
Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2017

Capitalism and Crime – Profits, Public Good and the Henry George Tradition
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Capitalism and Crime – Profits, Public Good and the Henry George Tradition

In this seminar, Professor and social reform advocate, James Palombo takes aim at the transformation of our criminal justice into a vast rent seeking enterprise where the profit motive has displaced necessary social adjustment as the main driver of public policy. According to Pr. Palombo, these flaws are not isolated, they are a reflection of bigger dysfunctions in our socio-economic system that incapacitates those at the margins of productivity while shrouding our actual ideological shortcomings.

Pr. Palombo proposes a Georgist inspired reform that would reinstate the State in its role as procurer of justice and a balanced approach to correction that emphasizes the importance of education and health care. Such a reform would highlight the links between a properly functioning criminal justice system and an economy that is built around the very idea of justice.

James Palombo’s previous book, Criminal to Critic-Reflections Amid The American Experiment, relays his transition from drug-dealing wise guy and convict to social worker, professor, world traveler and public policy advocate. He brings these experiences to HGSSS via his continuing interest in education and the improvement of civic life.

Location: Henry George School of Social Science, 149 East 38th Street (Between Lexington & 3rd Avenue) New York, NY 10016
Date: Wednesday, September 5 , 2018
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Capitalism – One Size Fits All?
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Capitalism – One Size Fits All?

The word capitalism lends itself to broad generalizations that highlight the importance of private property and free markets as the supreme arbitor of economic outcomes. However, national trajectories give form to many varieties, suggesting that history and culture do play a major role in shaping markets and organizing society.

In this seminar, Michael Bucher explores national variations in the practice of capitalism, and examines successes and failures in maximizing progress and minimizing poverty.

Michael Bucher is a freelance researcher/writer who has written for the Shanghai Business Review, on topics in business, trade, and international relations relating to China. He has presented lectures at HGSSS on China’s Silk Road Project, Public Banking and German Mittelstand, and is now focused on the topic of Comparative Capitalism, a new series looking at cross-country variations of modern Capitalism.

Date: Tuesday August 14th

Time: 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Location: Henry George School of Social Science

149 E, 38th Street, New York, NY 10016

Capstone Workshop for Fundamental Economics and Economic Science
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Capstone Workshop for Fundamental Economics and Economic Science

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Date: Saturday July 14, 2018

Time: 12:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Speakers: Anthony Persaud, Steven Sklar

Attendance to this workshop is required for students who took the “Introduction to Political Economy” and “Economic science”. 

Rents, Public Policy, Economic Justice – Revisiting Henry George’s Legacy
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Rents, Public Policy, Economic Justice -Revisiting Henry George’s Legacy

The year 2018 may be the year of Henry George – question is, will the Henry George School of Social Science (HGSSS) show up? We say, yes we will! Attendees to this conference will learn about: Georgist movement founding; early successes and failures in the 1886-1924 era of U.S. history; contemporary practice and advocacy in the halls of power in the U.S. Northeast Corridor (Boston-D.C.); and the infrastructure push in China and the U.S. and ways it is financed. The panel will leave attendees with a radical progressive proposal, called Three’s a Charm, involving an aggressive land value capture program targeting vacant and underutilized land in NYC.

9:45 – 10:15 AM – Welcome/Who Was Henry George?

By Marty Rowland

10:15 – 11:45 AM  –  Contemporary practice of Land Value Capture / Trump and Cuomo have advanced the idea in Policy Documents

By Joshua Vincent

12:00 – 1:00 PM – Lunch-Time Presentation (brown bag lunch welcome) / Infrastructure, the Lost Element of Economics; Lessons in finance; Proposal for Three’s a Charm

By Marty Rowland

1:00 – 1:40 PM – Q&A

By Joshua Vincent & Marty Rowland

1:40 – 3:10 PM – Robbing the Consumer, Enslaving the Worker, Milking the Taxpayer: The Trifecta of Economic Injustice and Inequality

By Yannis Tziligakis

3:10 – 3:30 PM – Q&A

By Yannis Tziligakis

Joshua Vincent is an advocate for an innovative system of land taxation that encourages urban development and discourages urban disinvestment. Land value taxation system typically lowers property taxes on homeowners and vastly increases new construction and infill construction in urban areas. He has worked with tax departments and elected officials in restructuring their taxation to a land value-based system and conducted over 50 land value impact studies for cities across the United States since 1995.

Yannis Tziligakis is an independent thinker/educator/researcher, a published scientist, philosopher, a publicly performing musician and Public Access TV producer and demosiographer. He has done work for various international Institutions NCNR-DEMOCRITOS, CERN, NCN, ,Univ of Michigan, Beckman Inst., Illinois Research Board, GSMT, HGS, IU, Jufeel Health Foundation-UN, etc..He is the founder of the GET-GIVE initiative which engages in education, advocacy and dissemination of the ideas and writings of Henry George towards social and economic justice. A frequent writer and public speaker with Common Ground USA, HGSSS, OIKOS, The New School, The Hellenic American Education Association, EarthSharing-Australia, NYSEC, CCNY, MNN, Left Forum. He is also vice-President of the International Union for Land Value Taxation for EU/Greece.

Marty Rowland is Education Chair for the HGSSS Board of Trustees, Senior Fellow with the Asset Leadership Network, Professional Engineer, and infrastructure policy expert. Works for NYC, writes standards for ASTM. A frequent presenter at the HGSSS, NYC Left Forum, and other venues.

 

Location: Henry George School of Social Science, 149 East 38th Street (Between Lexington & 3rd Avenue) New York, NY 10016
Time: 9:45 AM – 3:30 PM
Date: Saturday, June 9, 2018
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