Spring 2020 Study Programme
Meetings at 11 Mandeville Place, London W1U 3AJ
Courtesy of The School of Philosophy and Economic Science
Spring Term 2020 Study Programme
On consecutive Fridays beginning 24th January
No meeting on 21st February Half Term Week
EVENING STUDY GROUP: 6:40 to 8:10pm
Protection or Free Trade – Post Brexit!
A Series of Seven Sessions led by David Triggs
In this series we shall explore Henry George’s masterpiece “Protection or Free Trade” alongside side consideration of the economic issues facing the UK economy on leaving the European Union.
Topics will include:-
- Trade and Civilisation
- The Role of Trade in the Production and Distribution of Wealth
- Barriers to trade – historical roots
- Trade and Protection
- Tariffs and Smuggling
- Tariffs, Production and Producers
- Tariffs for Revenue
- Exports and Imports
- The Encouragement of Industry
- The Home Market and Home Trade
- Confusions Arising from the Use of Money in Trade
- Wage Levels and Trade
- Free Trade – Socialism and Capitalism
- Phoney Free Trade
AFTERNOON STUDY GROUP: 2:30pm to 4pm
Our Land and Land Policy
A Study of George’s work, led by Tommas Graves
Continuing form the Autumn 2019 term, the Group will draw on articles in Vol 1 of the new series of Annotated Works of Henry George beginning with “The Irish Land Laws” with an introduction by Brian Hodgkinson..
ALL WELCOME
You may attend one session or as many as you wish
ADMISSION FREE – voluntary donations please
New Course Autumn 2019
| The Friday Evening Study Group | |
| Please note the start time will be 6:45 and end at 8:15pm | |
| Political Economy | |
| A new course presented by David Triggs | |
| This five-session course will consider the principles that underlie the production and distribution of wealth within and between nations. Using UK experience as an example it considers how the health, wealth, prosperity, peace and happiness of its people are affected by the extent to which those principles are recognised in current socioeconomic arrangements. | |
| 25/10/2019 | Session 1. Introduction. The Issues and Overview: The scope of the course and the relevance of political economy to today’s key issues: Living and the Making of a Living, Employment, Housing, Trade, Boom/Bust, Sustainability, the Environment, Conflict/War and Peace etc. The language of Political Economy – the meaning of key terms in order to avoid confusion with their meanings when used colloquially, by the media, or by different schools of economic thought. |
| 01/11/2019 | Half Term: no meeting |
| 08/11/2019 | Session 2. The Production of Wealth. Essential Factors (Land, Labour & Capital), their nature and interaction. Different modes of production. The impact of population growth, specialisation, the development of new technologies and sources of energy. |
| 15/11/2019 | Session 3. The Distribution of Wealth. The earnings of Labour and Capital, The Rent of Land. The impact of taxes, profits and monopolies. |
| 22/11/2019 | Session 4. The Exchange of Wealth. Trade, specialisation, credit, money. Barriers to trade, protection or free trade. |
| 29/11/2019 | Session 5. Conclusions and Possible Remedies. Fiscal and monetary reform, freedom and economic justice, global and environmental implications. World Peace? |
| ALL WELCOME | |
| You may attend one session or as many as you wish | |
| ADMISSION FREE – voluntary donations please | |
| The Henry George Foundation of Great Britain is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England, company No 00956714, Charity No 259194 and in Scotland No SC0044360 |
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HGF Programe Autumn 2019
| Meetings at 11 Mandeville Place, London W1U 3AJ | ||||
| Courtesy of The School of Philosophy and Economic Science | ||||
| Autumn 2019 Study Programme | ||||
| Date | Wk No | Afternoon Group | Evening Group | |
| 04/10/2019 | Fri | Wk 1 | Group Study Meeting | Study: The Condition of Labour |
| 11/10/2019 | Fri | Wk 2 | Group Study Meeting | Study: The Condition of Labour |
| 18/10/2019 | Fri | Wk 3 | Group Study Meeting | Study: The Condition of Labour |
| 25/10/2019 | Fri | Wk 4 | Group Study Meeting | Political Economy – A new Course |
| 01/11/2019 | Fri | Wk 5 | Half Term: no meeting | Half Term: no meeting |
| 08/11/2019 | Fri | Wk 6 | Group Study Meeting | Political Economy – A new Course |
| 15/11/2019 | Fri | Wk 7 | Group Study Meeting | Political Economy – A new Course |
| 22/11/2019 | Fri | Wk 8 | Group Study Meeting | Political Economy – A new Course |
| 29/11/2019 | Fri | Wk 9 | Group Study Meeting | Political Economy – A new Course |
| STUDY GROUP: 2:30pm to 4pm: Presenter: Tommas Graves. |
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| Continuing from the Summer term, the Afternoon Study Group sessions will resume its study of George’s Our Land and Land Policy. Following on, the study will focus on further texts drawn from Vol 1 in the new Schalkenbach editions of The Annotated Works. | ||||
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STUDY GROUP: 6:40 to 8:10pm |
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| During the first three weeks, David will lead the Group in further examination of George’s letter to Pope Leo XIII entitled The Condition of Labour, which was started in the Summer Term. | ||||
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NEW 5 WEEK COURSE: Beginning on the 25th October, David will present a new 5-week course he has devised on Political Economy. This will continue after the half term. Further announcement later. |
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| ALL WELCOME | ||||
| You may attend one session or as many as you wish | ||||
| ADMISSION FREE – voluntary donations please | ||||
| The Henry George Foundation of Great Britain is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England, company no 00956714, Charity No: 259194 and in Scotland SC0044360 |
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