RSVP and join us at TrineDay’s Roundtable 29. The Alexander Hamilton/Henry George Economic Dialogues, Wed. April 17, 2024, FREE Live Zoom
Here I read the Introduction from HAMILTON VERSUS WALL STREET: The Core Principles of the American System of Economics by Nancy Bradeen Spannaus.
If you RSVP and join us, I look forward to seeing you. -Bruce
FREE Zoom Event
Wed. April 17, 2024
3:00 – 4:30 pm Eastern
RSVP required at:
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TrineDay’s Roundtables celebrate President John F. Kennedy’s plan for world peace and Henry George’s economics, which create economic justice, the indispensable foundation for peace and prosperity.
Roundtable 29 will explore Alexander Hamilton’s American System of economics. Its proponents say that its infrastructure investment, low interest (widely available) credit, and tariffs on imports created the greatest periods of industrial growth and wealth creation in American history.
Unfortunately, that progress, as Henry George diagnosed, not only made some very wealthy, but it also sank many into poverty, because land values rose faster than wages, which has led to unaffordable housing and the homelessness that results. Georgist Economics solves this problem by taxing the unearned income (aka land value taxation) while removing taxes from labor and production.
If Hamilton’s and George’s economics were both utilized, would they create opportunity, prosperity, and peace beyond anything seen before?
What’s so urgent and important about this conversation? Well, as Joshua Vincent, Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Economics, said last month about Henry George’s ideas:
“The worst people in the world know what this is. … And they understand the power of land value and land economics and land rent. That’s how they get rich without working. … we’ve figured out how to [transform the situation] here in the USA, Estonia, Denmark – you name it – Australia. Lots of places do it. But you have to essentially communicate the idea because that’s how you disarm the speculators who are very dangerous.”
We hope you RSVP and join us on April 17.
Special Guest:
Nancy Bradeen Spannaus has been studying American history since the 1970s (with an emphasis on its economic development in general and Alexander Hamilton in particular). She co-authored THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
After retiring from a career in journalism, Nancy self-published HAMILTON VERSUS WALL STREET: The Core Principles of the American System of Economics, in 2019. In 2023 she released DEFEATING SLAVERY: Hamilton’s American System Showed the Way.
Nancy is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and Columbia University and a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She blogs at americansystemnow.com.
R.A. “Kris” Millegan, host, publisher, writer, researcher, and musician
Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, authors and investigative journalists
Alanna Hartzok, Earth Rights activist and author
Ed Dodson, Georgist scholar
Bruce de Torres, author, TrineDay marketing and moderator
At valediction.net, you’ll find relevant historical analysis and visionary possibilities for the future. On YouTube, on the Valediction Vision channel, you’ll find many of our previous Roundtables, which unpack our purposes with clarity and hope.