The presentation “They’re Both Wrong,” scheduled for March 21, has been postponed indefinitely.
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Sat. March 10, 2012 – 2 p.m. “The American Ruling Class”
The American Ruling Class Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper’s Magazine, wrote this “cleverly contrived non-fiction film” (New York Press) that follows two fictional Yale grads around as they ask some of America’s cultural, political, and economic elite (Walter Cronkite, James Baker III, Robert Altman, Pete Seeger, Lawrence Summers, Kurt Vonnegut, Bill Bradley, Howard Zinn) to …
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Feb 27, 2:30 PM: Progress & Poverty course
For those wishing to learn the root cause of worsening poverty on an afternoon schedule, our final Winter term Progress & Poverty course starts this Monday, February 27. This is the modern version of the course, meeting for five consecutive Mondays thru March 26. Class starts at 2:30. As always, you’re welcome to attend the …
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Feb. 22, 2012 – Political Economy Book Club continues with Wealth of Nations
Our Political Economy Book Club continues its discussion of Book I of Adam Smith’s “The Wealth of Nations”. This session covers the second half of Book I (chapters 10 & 11). “The Wealth of Nations” is available for free download at http://www.gutenberg.org/. Feel free to participate even if you haven’t yet read the book and …
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Feb 11 Movie: The Cartel
This documentary on much-needed education reforms is a clear-headed, gripping indictment. Using New Jersey as a case study, director Bob Bowdon lays out why one of the country’s most expensive school districts has one of the highest dropout rates and lowest standardized test scores. The problem is corruption, union bureaucracy, and reactionary politics. “Where the …
Jan 23 and 28: Two more Progress & Poverty opportunities
If you have not taken, or would like to refresh your knowledge of, Progress & Poverty, you’ll have two opportunities to start this week. At our Loop location, a Monday night class starts January 23 at 6 PM. This is the modern version, and Bob Jene will be the instructor In the South Suburbs, our …
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Jan 21 (Sat) 2 PM: Dr. Strangelove
Curious Georgists Go to the Movies present Dr. Strangelove. You need to have a unique (and twisted) sense of humor to find nuclear holocaust entertaining, but director Stanley Kubrick does a marvelous job of balancing his truely bizzare humor with the gut-wrenching terror felt in the Cold War era. The political satire stars Peter Sellers portraying …
Thursday, January 12: Republican Presidential Candidates and their Economic Advisors
On Bob Jene will look at eight Republican presidential candiates, analyzing their proposals to “fix” the economy. (Yeah, there used to be more than eight, and by the time of the talk there probably will be fewer than eight, but Bob is working with eight.) He’ll also consider the views of their advisors, and evaluate …
How I made a million dollars in Chicago real estate: I $tole it from you!
Successful land speculation is really a matter of capturing for yourself the gains that belong to the community. George Menninger is one of many who have done it. Far beyond any need to earn a living, George now spends some of his time explaining how the bad public policy he exploited not only made him …
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After the Crash course begins Tuesday
Traditional Henry George School classes, including Progress & Poverty, help us comprehend how an economy based on justice would never crash the way ours has over the past few years. But now that we’re in a mess, how do we get out? After the Crash extends and applies Henry George’s analysis to the problem of …