Please be aware that Henry George School is moving, to 30 E Adams #1207, just a short walk away from our current location. We will of course put a sign at our old 28 E Jackson location, and publish the new address here at hgchicago.org just as soon as the lease is signed. The actual …
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June 23, Sat, Economic (bi)Cycle Tour
Ride with HGS insiders Bob Jene and Bob Matter thru the Museum Campus and Central Station development areas. Your guides will discuss various appropriate and inappropriate land uses, public amenities that enhance land values, some underused and prematurely developed spaces. Bring your own bike, and be ready to cycle 10-15 miles over two hours. Meet …
June 19 6PM Tuesday: Sam Venturella Memorial Library open house
Probably the largest collection of Georgist and geoist documents west of Philadelphia, our Sam Venturella Memorial Library is routinely available by appointment for reference use, with borrowing privileges (except a few works) offered to Henry George School graduates and supporting members (pdf). On the occasion of this open house we invite everyone to see …
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June 09 2PM Saturday: Real Estate 4 Ransom
What role did real estate play in the crashing of the global economy? Bigger and different than you might think, says this new Australian documentary by Karl Fitzgerald and Gavin Emmanuel. Shot over 5 years, it focuses an economics lens on many of the big picture issues world politics are grappling to deal with. The 40 …
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June 16 1 PM Invisible Robbery Tour
Right on the streets of every American community, robbery takes place every day. How can local, state, and national governments claim they need to tax our labor, when there is so much real value that the community creates but fails to collect? On this walk through central Chicago, we’ll see some of this value, understand …
June 6, Wed, 6 PM: No Farms, No Food
Urban sprawl threatens destruction of much valuable farm land. Bob Jene will look at data from one of the leading national organizations seeking to mitigate this damage, the American Farmland Trust (AFT). Among other things, they buy development rights from farmers to insure the land’s continued use in agriculture and facilitate community supported agriculture which …
May 23 Wed Real Estate 4 Ransom
What role did real estate play in the crashing of the global economy? Bigger and different than you might think, says this new Australian documentary by Karl Fitzgerald and Gavin Emmanuel. Shot over 5 years, it focuses an economics lens on many of the big picture issues world politics are grappling to deal with. The 40 …
May 16, Wed, Political Economy Book Club discusses Bastiat’s “Essays on Political Economy”
This work was selected to coincide with the G8 meetings the subsequent weekend (which were to have been in Chicago but have been relocated). Bastiat was “indeed a lucid and superb writer, whose brilliant and witty essays and fables to this day are remarkable demolitions of protectionism and all forms of government subsidy and control,” …
May 12 2PM Saturday: Admirable Crichton (free movie)
Kenneth More stars as William Crichton, the highly knowledgeable and efficient butler in the London household of the Earl of Loam (Cecil Parker) and his family. Though Crichton is the true master of the household, he knows his place, honouring the tightly regulated social structure of late-nineteenth century England. On a trip on the …
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April 19: Corruption of Economics/History of Capital starts tonight!
This course investigates the systematic efforts of the economics profession to marginalize the ideas of Henry George — even at the cost of changing fundamental concepts of classical economics. Taught by Bob Jene, and based on important work by Mason Gaffney. This advanced course requires prior completion of Progress & Poverty. Starts tonight, April 19, …
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