SAN FRANCISCO

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.

UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION COURSE —— Curriculum CY  2012

LESSON I:  Natural Law and Human Nature. 

LESSON II:  America in 1787. 

LESSON III:   Men, Manners, and Rules. The Convention Begins.

LESSON IV:  The Large States and the Small States. Compromises.

LESSON V: The North and South.  

LESSON VI: The Western Lands.

LESSON VII: The Question of Power.

LESSON VIII:  Checks and Balances.

LESSON IX: The U.S. Constitution.

LESSON X: The Amendments.

MONEY AND BANKING COURSE—— Curriculum CY 2012

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.

FUNDAMENTAL ECONOMICS COURSE—— Curriculum CY 2012

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.

CONSTITUTION COURSE Meeting Schedule for CY 2012:

Tuesday, February 21       7 PM Tuesday, February 28       7 PM  Tuesday, March 6             7 PM  Tuesday, March 13           7 PM Tuesday, March 20           7 PM  

MONEY  COURSE Meeting Schedule for CY 2012:

Tuesday, January 3       7 PM Tuesday, January 10     7 PM  Tuesday, January 17     7 PM Tuesday, January 24     7 PM  Tuesday, January 31     7 PM 

FUNDAMENTAL COURSE Meeting Schedule for CY 2012:

Tuesday, April 3        7 PM Tuesday, April 10      7 PM Tuesday, April 17      7 PM  Tuesday, April 24      7 PM   Tuesday, May 1        7 PM