The year 2018 may be the year of Henry George – question is, will the Henry George School of Social Science (HGSSS) show up? We say, yes we will! Attendees to this conference will learn about: Georgist movement founding; early successes and failures in the 1896-1924 era of U.S. history; contemporary practice and advocacy in the halls of power in the U.S. Northeast Corridor (Boston-D.C.); and the infrastructure push in China and the U.S. and ways it is financed. The panel will leave attendees with a radical progressive proposal, called Three’s a Charm, involving an aggressive land value capture program targeting vacant and underutilized land in NYC.

9:45 – 10:15 am Welcome / Who Was Henry George? Marty Rowland

10:15 – 11:15 am Robbing the Consumer-Enslaving the Worker- Yannis Tziligakis

Milking the Taxpayer: The Trifecta of Economic

Injustice and Inequality

11:15 – 12:00 pm History of the Single Tax Movement in the U.S., Ibrahima Drame

And Land Value Taxation Around the World

12:00 – 1:30 pm Lunch presentation / Contemporary practice of land Joshua Vincent

value capture / Trump and Cuomo have advanced

the idea in policy documents

1:30 – 2:30 pm Infrastructure, the lost element of economics; Marty Rowland

Lessons in finance; proposal for Three’s a Charm

2:30 – 3:30 pm Panel Q&A Yannis, Ibrahima, Joshua, Marty

Joshua Vincent is an advocate for an innovative system of land taxation that encourages urban development and discourages urban disinvestment. Land value taxation system typically lowers property taxes on homeowners and vastly increases new construction and infill construction in urban areas. He has worked with tax departments and elected officials in restructuring their taxation to a land value-based system and conducted over 50 land value impact studies for cities across the United States since 1995.

Yannis Tziligakis is an independent thinker/educator/researcher, a published scientist and philosopher and a musician who has performed at Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall. He has done work for the National Center for Nuclear Research-Democritos, CERN, National Center for Nanotechnology, the Space Weather Prediction Project, the Beckman Institute, the Illinois Research Board, Mechanics Institute and HGSSS. He is the founder of the GET-GIVE initiative which engages in education, advocacy and dissemination of the ideas and writings of Henry George towards social and economic justice. He is a frequent writer and speaker with Common Ground USA, HGSSS, UFT, New School, The Hellenic American Education Association, the Ethical Society of NY, the Community Church of NY, the Left Forum. He is also vice-President of the International Union for Land Value Taxation.

Marty Rowland is Education Chair for the HGSSS Board of Trustees, Senior Fellow with the Asset Leadership Network, Professional Engineer, and infrastructure policy expert. Works for NYC, writes standards for ASTM. A frequent presenter at the HGSSS, NYC Left Forum, and other venues.

Ibrahima Drame is the Director of Education at the HGSSS.

