Advanced Courses
All of the courses on this list are open to students who have completed Fundamental Economics. Each class meets weekly for ten weeks. You can register online right here.
Applied Economics: The Globalization Issue
Part 2 of Principles of Political Economy.
- Who benefits from globalization? Explore the dynamics of international trade.
- Is the World Trade Organization only on the side of the large corporations?
- How does monopolization of natural resources such as oil and water affect you?
Economic Science: Progress and Prosperity
Part 3 of Principles of Political Economy.
- How is wealth measured today?
- When the Gross Domestic Product goes up, why aren't we better off?
- Which economic laws still apply today?
- Tuesday, April 20th
- 1 pm - Ms. Pia DeSilva
- Thursday, April 22nd
- 6 pm - Dr. Cay Hehner
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Human Rights
Inalienable rights took millennia to establish. Study the classic declarations; analyze their basic concepts
using A Perplexed Philosopher by Henry George.
- Monday, April 19th - 6 pm - Dr. Quisia González
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3-D Economics: History of Capital
This course is part of the new trilogy of advanced courses with History of Land and History of Labor. The textbook will be Mason Gaffney’s The Corruption of Economics
- Monday, April 19th - 6 pm - Mr. Vesa Nelson
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Liberating Economics II
What difference can the "worldly philosophers" make in your life? Find out which great economists
didn’t do their homework. Was it Locke, Hume, Quesnay, Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, Paine, Marx, Veblen,
Keynes, Hayek or Friedman? Or all of them? Why is George unique?
- Tuesday, April 20th - 6 pm - Dr. Cay Hehner
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Grandes Decisiones
Examen fascinante de los grandes problemas de nuestro tiempo y la forma de tomar decisiones en momentos cruciales. Un asunto diferente cada semana.
- Wednesday, April 21st - 6 pm - Mr. Ramón Alvarez
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Land and Literature: James Fenimore Cooper
Was rarely credited classic U.S. author J. F. Cooper a proto-environmentalist? His seminal work The Pioneers is a case-study of civilization encroaching upon nature. The fabled hero of the novel, Leatherstocking, takes a natural-law stance, his antagonist Judge Temple, takes a landowner’s perspective.
- Wednesday, April 21st - 1 pm - Mr. Vesa Nelson
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Pathways to Progress
Analysis and discussion of domestic and international issues through the Georgist lens of "correct thought - right action."
- Thursday, September 22nd - 6 pm - Mr. Billy Fitzgerald
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