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Spring 2022 Study Programme

Fridays beginning 14th January until 1st April 2022.
Half Term Date: 18th February 2022

All meetings will be online (via Zoom Video Link), please see links below

AFTERNOON STUDY GROUP
Friday Afternoons: 2:30pm to 4.00pm, led by Tommas Graves.

Reading: Social Problems (a collection of essays by Henry George published in 1883 which presents his views on political economy and his vision of reforms needed for the achievement of Justice in Social and Economic arrangements).

The Readings will draw on notes etc from Vol III of recently published volume in the series The Annotated Works of Henry George.

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EVENING STUDY GROUP
Friday Evenings: 6:45pm to 8:15pm, led by David Triggs.

This term, David will continue to lead our studies of Henry George’s works by looking at a selection of his speeches as incorporated in the book The Prosperity Paradox by Dr Mark Hassed published in 2000 in Melbourne Australia.

The speeches include: The Study of Political Economy, Justice the object: Taxation the means, The land for the people, The crime of poverty, Moses: Apostle of freedom, Scotland and Scotsmen, Thou shalt not steal, Land and taxation, Thy kingdom come. The book also includes a very short biography of Henry George which we shall read during the opening session.

The term will also include an analysis of the UK National Accounts in order to reveal the benefits of replacing existing taxes on employment, production and trade with the collection of land rent as public revenue.

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You will be welcome to join us for as many sessions as you wish.
HGF Administration.

Admission is free – Donations via our website welcome

Autumn 2021 Study Programme

Consecutive Fridays Beginning 8th October 2021
until 10th December 2021

All meetings will be online (via Zoom Video Link), please see links below

AFTERNOON STUDY GROUP
Friday Afternoons: 2:30pm to 4.00pm, led by Tommas Graves.

Reading: The Condition of Labour, (An open letter to Pope Leo XIII).

The Readings will draw on notes etc from Vol III of recently published volume in the series The Annotated Works of Henry George.

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Meeting ID: 838 8066 6680
Passcode: 544247

EVENING STUDY GROUP
Friday Evenings: 6:45pm to 8:15pm, led by David Triggs.

This term David will draw on a range of Henry George’s Works in order to consider what he has to offer in connection with the pressing needs of today, including such issues as climate change, environmental protection, housing, education, social services, conflict and migration etc.

Sources will include passages from his major works e.g. Progress and Poverty, Protection or Free Trade, The Science of Political Economy and The Condition of Labour as well as less well-known passages from his speeches and articles published in The Standard.

The term will also include Guest speakers who made presentations at the HGF Open Event held on 18th September 2021.

Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87944408537?pwd=RlBpbG56T1ArbGErK3NsSVF0cThiQT09
Meeting ID: 879 4440 8537
Passcode: 603155

You will be welcome to join us for as many sessions as you wish.
HGF Administration.

Admission is free – Donations via our website welcome

The Henry George Foundation of Great Britain Open Event 2021

Levelling up and Building Back Better in a Post-Pandemic World: Insights and solutions from the economic philosophy of Henry George

Saturday 18th September 2021 10:00am to 6:00 pm

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Admission Free
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Programme
10.00	Welcome and Introduction
10:10	Session 1. Progress Report “It’s a beginning: The Land Value Tax in Baden-Wuerttemberg” Dirk Loehr will take us through the successful campaign for the introduction of LVT in Germany. Economic Rent, Inequality and Public Revenue – the Singapore Model – a (public) property state? Andrew Purves uses the concept of the ‘property state’ as a framework to tell the story of Singapore’s development since independence in 1965.
11.40	Break
11.55	Session 2. The Tyranny of Bad Ideas “The Land Question and Community” Joseph Milne will consider how the privatisation of land, the rise of modern industry, and the evolutionary ideologies of progress in the nineteenth century destroyed the self-sufficiency of communities and turned free people into wage labourers. “George, Marx, Socialism, and Money” David Triggs will consider how George’s view that the most important factor in the world as we know it is “that which feels, perceives, thinks and wills” might explain differences between his theories and those of Marx, who insisted that economic analysis must begin “with the analysis of a commodity”.
13.25	Lunch Break
14.00	Session 3. Communicating the Message Frank Peddle and William Peirce: A celebration of the publication of The Annotated Works of Henry George Volume IV: Protection and Free Trade
15.15	Mid-session break
15.25	Session 3. Continued “Generating Awareness of Henry George’s Principles of Cooperative Individualism” Edward Dodson will transcend the traditional labels of ‘Georgism’ and the ‘Single Tax’ by exploring the principles of cooperative individualism.
16.10	Break
16.20	Session 4. The Future of ‘Georgism’ Panel discussion with Fred Harrison, David Triggs, Conall Boyle, Gavin Kerr and Gareth Whelan
17.35	Concluding Session – Remarks, Questions and Observations