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No Farms No Food 6:00 pm
No Farms No Food @ Henry George School suite 1207
Mar 4 @ 6:00 pm
No Farms No Food @ Henry George School suite 1207 | Chicago | Illinois | United States
As farmland yields to “higher-value” uses, how (and how well and how inexpensively) will we eat? Bob Jene reviews data from a leading agricultural preservation organization, the American Farmland Trust (AFT). Among other things they …
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Voltaire’s Candide discussed by Political Economy Book Club 6:00 pm
Voltaire’s Candide discussed by Political Economy Book Club @ Henry George School suite 1207
Mar 18 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Voltaire's Candide discussed by Political Economy Book Club @ Henry George School suite 1207 | Chicago | Illinois | United States
America’s only Political Economy Book Club discusses Candide, Voltaire’s 1759 masterpiece that ridicules religion, theologians, governments, armies, philosophies and philosophers through allegory.  As Jean Starobinski notes,”The fast-paced and improbable plot—in which characters narrowly escape death …
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