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CURRICULUM OF FREE COURSES Even a cursory look reveals a world now gripped by numerous wars over territory, and bedeviled by economic depression and growing social inequality.�� Towards the end of the nineteenth-century a book was written which analysed these enormous social problems and provided a remedy. This book was Progress and Poverty.� Its author was an American, Henry George.
Twenty-five years after its publication it had sold over two million copies making it easily among the most widely-read book on economics ever written.� In this book George pointed to a weakness in our most basic economic institution, private property in land.Since it was written its teaching has been endorsed by so many famous men and women that it is hard to imagine why both the book and its author are now all-but forgotten.� The Russian writer Leo Tolstoy offered this reason.�� Those who profit from landed property �use all possible means to conceal from themselves and others the truth � and to crush, extinguish and distort it, or, if these do not succeed, to hush it up� (A Great Iniquity). The object of the Association for Good Government is to get the principles enunciated in Progress and Poverty and in George�s other works given the public discussion that they deserve. These teachings fall easily into three kinds:
The progression of courses, from introductory, intermediate, through to several advanced courses allow time for discussion and revision. The course is broken down as follows: Georgist Economic Philosophy: An Introductory Course for Those Seeking Social Justice
Georgist Political Economy: An Intermediate Course for Those Seeking Social Justice
� The following is the TENTATIVE schedule of Introductory and Intermediate courses set down for 2018 to to be held at the 1F Henry George House, 122 Lt. Eveleigh St. Redfern (50 meters west of the Redfern Station). �
� FIRST OFFERING (on April, between school terms) from 10:00 am - 12:00 nn; repeated in the afternoon 3:00 - 5:00 pm. Students may attend courses on the dates successively or interchangeably.
Introductory: Economic Philosophy for Those Seeking Social Justice. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In May 1891 Pope Leo XIII issued  an Encyclical Letter entitled Rerum Novarum in which he condemned what he saw as ‘The Socialist Scheme: The Destruction of Private Property’.  Henry George thought this would be interpreted as an attack on his own proposals and wrote an open letter to the Pope entitled ‘The Condition of Labour’ in which he clarified how they differed from ‘socialist ideas’ and were entirely consistent with the fundamental teachings of the Christian Faith. The reading courses will be held on a weekend on the following TENTATIVE dates covering the cited chapters: CHAPTERS FOUR AND FIVE Pitching for Social Justice Workshop:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECOND OFFERING in July, from 10:00 am - 12:00 nn. Students may attend courses on the dates interchangeably or repeatedly.
Introductory: Economic Philosophy for Those Seeking Social Justice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THIRD OFFERING (on September - October, between school terms) from 10:00 am - 12:00 nn and repeated 3:00 - 5:00pm. . Students may attend courses on the dates interchangeably or repeatedly.
Introductory: Economic Philosophy for Those Seeking Social Justice. Principles & Economics 1: Monday 30th September. Intermediate: Political Economy for Those Seeking Social Justice Free & Open Society; Enclosed Society: Monday 7th October. |
