Mike Curtis of the Henry George Academy has produced a series of ten videos presenting the essentials of Progress & Poverty, in a modern context. While it can’t provide the interactivity of a real-time course, it explains the important points clearly, backed up by illustrations and 21st-century data. It also provides considerable detail about how …
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Introducing Progress & Poverty — 2026 Edition; then a full Progress & Poverty course
We’re fortunate that Henry George’s ideas, and proposals based on them, are propagating. The two-rate tax, long seen only in a few Pennsylvania places, is getting serious consideration in several other states. The Progress & Poverty Institute, along with the Center for the Study of Economics, have built useful tools for explaining the benefits of …
March introductory sessions, classes
The popular “Introducing Progress & Poverty” session will be presented on two Tuesdays this month, March 18 and March 25. Either session will provide an overview of the main concepts in the Progress & Poverty book, in which Henry George identifies the principal reasons why poverty persists even as technical progress massively increases our capability …
Progress & Poverty, movies, book discussion, and a robbery tour
Yes, we remain confident that what you can learn at the Henry George School provides an essential perspective, available in only a few places, on how the world works, why things usually go wrong despite (sometimes) good intentions, and a proposal by (but not entirely original to) a brilliant American philosopher and economist to solve …
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Winter 2012 begins at the Henry George School
This term we’ll offer four courses in seven sections, including our first south suburban class in decades (Progress & Poverty at the Blue Island Public Library.) The schedule includes links to the course descriptions. As always, each course requires only a $25 registration fee, and you’re welcome to sit in on the first session before …
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