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School of Economics
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Curriculum
All class room meetings are held in the Clipper Ship Conference Room on the Mezzanine floor in the Chancellor Hotel on Union Square at 433 Powell Street in San Francisco.
FUNDAMENTAL ECONOMICS COURSE—— Curriculum CY 2011
LESSON I: The Problem of establishing and standardizing terms and definitions. (Using Henry George’s definitions in "Progress and Poverty" as guide.)
LESSON II: Definition of Production and Wages.
LESSON III: Population and the Law of Rent.
LESSON IV: The Law of Interest and the Law of Wages.
LESSON V: Effect of Societal and Technological Progress Upon Distribution.
LESSON VI: Recessions and Depressions and the Proposed Remedies.
LESSON VII: Land Value Taxation and Its Justification.
LESSON VIII: The Application of Land Value Taxation, "Allodial" and "Fee-Simple" Titles of Holding Land.
LESSON IX: The Effects of Land Value Taxation, Preventing Real Estate Boom from Destroying Capital.
LESSON X: The Law of Human Progress, the Role of Money.
MONEY AND BANKING COURSE—— Curriculum CY 2010
LESSON I: The Axiom of Declining Marginal Utility, Direct versus Indirect Exchange.
LESSON II: The Dual Nature of Money, Arbitrage.
LESSON III: The Disequilibrium Theory of Price Formation and Critique of the Quantity Theory of Money.
LESSON IV: The Two Sources of Credit: Saving and Clearing, the Propensity to Save and the Rate of Interest.
LESSON V: Exchanging Wealth and Income, the Productivity of Capital versus Time Preference.
LESSON VI: The Market Process Determining the Rate of Interest, the Structure of Capital Markets.
LESSON VII: Bill of Exchange, the Propensity to Consume and the Discount Rate.
LESSON VIII: The Marketing Process Determining the Discount Rate, the Marginal Productivity of Social Circulating Capital.
LESSON IX: The Discount House and the Acceptance House, the Rise and Fall of Commercial Banking.
LESSON X: The Error of Ludwig von Mises and Adam Smith’s Real Bills Doctrine.
UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION COURSE —— Curriculum CY 2010
LESSON I: America in 1787, a Nation in Jeopardy.
LESSON II: George Washington, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Charles Pinckney--- Men, Manners, and Rules: The Convention Begins.
LESSON III: The Large States and the Small States.
LESSON IV: Roger Sherman, William Paterson and Luther Martin, the Most Serious and Threatening Excitement.
LESSON V: North and South, a New Alliance.
LESSON VI: The Western Lands, Another Trade-off.
LESSON VII: The Question of Power, a Balancing Act.
LESSON VIII: James Wilson, Elbridge Gerry and George Mason, the Most Remarkable Work.
LESSON IX: The Articles of Confederation.
LESSON X: The Constitution of the United States and the Subsequent Amendments.
FUNDAMENTAL COURSE Meeting Schedule for CY 2011:
Wednesday, January 19 7 PM Wednesday, January 26 7 PM Wednesday, February 2 7 PM Wednesday, February 9 7 PM Wednesday, February 16 7 PM
MONEY COURSE Meeting Schedule for CY 2010:
Wednesday, July 14 7 PM Wednesday, July 21 7 PM Wednesday, July 28 7 PM Wednesday, August 4 7 PM Wednesday, August 11 7 PM
CONSTITUTION COURSE Meeting Schedule for CY 2010:
Wednesday, October 6 7 PM Wednesday, October 13 7 PM Wednesday, October 20 7 PM Wednesday, October 27 7 PM Wednesday, November 3 7 PM
In Memoriam
The San Francisco School of Economics remembers a stalwart advocate for a workable monetary system to foster human freedom and world peace. We are forever
grateful to Ferdinand Lips for his important work.
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