Advanced studients of Economics with Justice were among those attending a field trip to South Africa in 2007

“What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.”

Henry George

The study of economics was the founding inspiration for the School. Dismayed by the poverty and despair of the great depression in the early 1930s, the small group of founders became convinced that economics was profoundly misunderstood and set about finding answers that conventional economics had failed to provide.

The founders looked for natural laws governing societies. They found inspiration and insight in the writings of Henry George, who highlighted the key significance of access to land and natural resources as an economic factor.

Today, following the same inspiration, economics is studied and taught in the School as Economics with Justice. This is an approach to economics with justice at its heart, an approach that offers new perspectives on more conventional economic thought and practice.