Andrew B. Mazzone has been President of Xiom Corp. (Formerly
Panama Industries Ltd.) since 1998 and serves as its Principal
Accounting Officer and Principal Financial Officer. Mr. Mazzone
served as President of Thermaltec International. Mr. Mazzone
served as Principal Financial and Accounting Officer, Secretary,
and Treasurer of TTI Holdings of AmericaCorp. Mr. Mazzone served
as Chief Executive Officer and President of TTI Holdings of
AmericaCorp. since November 1, 2001. ...
From 1970 until February 15, 1995, Mr. Mazzone was employed by
Metco, Westbury NY, a subsidiary of the Perkin Elmer Corp. Some
of the highlights of his Metco career include positions as
Director of Logistics, Director of Sales and Marketing, Director
of Manufacturing, Executive Vice President and President. He has
been the Chairman of the Board and Director of Panama Industries
Ltd. since 1998, the date of its inception. Mr. Mazzone served
as the Chairman of Steam Cleaning USA Inc. (formerly known as
TTI Holdings of America Corp.) since its inception in November
1994. TTI Holdings of AmericaCorp. was acquired by a foreign
holding corporation, which changed TTI Holdings of America
Corp.'s name to Sulzer Metco. Steam Cleaning USA Inc. was
acquired by a foreign holding corporation, which changed Perkin
Elmer Corp.'s name to Sulzer Metco. Mr. Mazzone served as a
Director of Humana Trans Services Holding Corp. (formerly Steam
Cleaning USA Inc.) from August 2002 until April 5, 2004 when he
resigned from it. and served as its Chairman of the Board from
its inception August 2002 until February 2004. Mr. Mazzone has
degrees from Babson College, Babson Park, Massachusetts in
finance and an advanced degree in economics, with a specialty in
Economic History.
Since 1932, tens of thousands of
students have taken courses in economics and
social philosophy at the Henry George
School, gaining insights into the nature of
society and practical solutions for our
seemingly intractable social problems.
Classes, offered in English and in Spanish,
attract students from all walks of life, and
all levels of academic achievement.
The major program of study, Principles
of Political Economy, is comprised of
three ten-week courses: Progress and
Poverty: First Principles (which is the
pre-requisite for all other courses),
Applied Economics: The Issue of
Globalization and Economic Science:
Progress and Prosperity.
Our headquarters is a freshly remodeled
townhouse with five comfortable classrooms.
We're on 30th Street, between Park Avenue
South and Lexington Avenue, two short blocks
from the Lex Ave. IRT stop at 28th St. For
over seven decades, New Yorkers have made
the Henry George School a regular stop for
"learning for its own sake" in a friendly
and energizing setting.
Why study political economy?
Many students at the Henry George School
have already studied "Economics", but gained
nothing from it that they could apply to
help them understand their world. We refer
to our courses as "political economy",
rather than the more modern "economics", to
stress our search for basic principles, true
in all places and times, upon which a clear
understanding of economic behavior can be
built. This solid foundation is necessary
for understanding any science. This work is
vitally important -- for, unlike physics,
botany or astronomy, political economy
affects every person, every day: it is the
science of how people make a living.
The basic question that Henry George
sought to answer is still with us: Why in
spite of all the inventions, innovations and
marvelous increases in productivity, do
wages not increase? Why are so many people
who are willing and able to work, unable to
exchange their labor for the products of
other people's labor? Henry George
approached the problem with clear logic, and
he advanced a practical solution.
The School and the Georgist Movement
Although you don't have to become a "Georgist"
to benefit from your experience at the
School, the Henry George School was founded
as part of a reform movement which sought to
establish fundamental economic justice and
sustainable prosperity for all. The "Single
Tax" movement was inspired by Henry George's
classic work Progress and Poverty
(1879), "An inquiry into the cause of
industrial depressions and the increase of
want with the increase of wealth."
Progress and Poverty was a runaway best
seller and, to this day, is the all-time
most widely-read book on political economy.
A long list of eminent people, including
Winston Churchill, Sun Yat Sen, Leo Tolstoy,
John Dewey and Albert Einstein, endorsed
George's proposals.
In its heyday, the Single Tax movment was
large and vibrant, organizing political
parties in the US and Great Britain, getting
candidates elected to office, and achieving
public-revenue policy reforms, notably in
Denmark, Australia and Taiwan. But, world
events, particularly World War I and the
Great Depression of the 1930s, sapped the
political strength of the Georgist movement.
It became evident that more people had to
follow Henry George's advice that
Social reform is not the be secured
by noice and shouting, by complaints and
denunciation; by the formation of
parties, or the making of revolutions,
but by the awakening of thought and the
progress of ideas. Until there be
correct thought, there cannot be right
action, and when there is correct
thought, right action will follow. -
Social Problems, 1886
