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 …
Tax & the City
This free “Big Tent Urbanist Event” is presented by the Progress & Poverty Institute, along with Strong Towns Chicago, Congress for the New Urbanism, Abundant Housing Illinois, and the Chicago Growth Project. Thursday April 30, 5:45 to 8 PM. It’s near North and Clybourn. More information is here.
(And what’s this mess with tariffs?): Introducing Progress and Poverty
Our popular Introducing Progress & Poverty session will be presented on two Tuesdays this month, May 13 and May 20. 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 …
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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 …
Starting 2025 at the Henry George School
If you’re concerned about problems of poverty, lack of opportunity, and declining quality of life in Chicago and America, and hoping for a better future, you should attend our Introducing Progress & Poverty session on Tuesday, January 14, 5:30PM. Perhaps you already knew that these problems aren’t unique to our time, but were recognized in …
Getting into the habit of thinking — Introducing Progress and Poverty
One of our graduates observed that our Progress and Poverty course “helped me get into the habit of thinking, and not just accepting things.” If you’d like to gain that habit, or even if not, you might enjoy discovering some important ideas with Introducing Progress and Poverty. For folks who have the day off on Monday, …
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Introducing Progress and Poverty
We’ll present Introducing Progress and Poverty 1 PM Sunday August 21 2022 ( Rogers Park Public Library, 6907 N Clark St, Chicago Illinois) and 6:15 PM Thursday September 15 (333 S Wabash Ave #2700 northeast corner of Van Buren St, Chicago Illinois) as the first session of the 10-week Progress and Poverty course. Please note …
Class schedule for Fall 2022
Henry George School will be offering two class during Fall 2022. Introductory course Progress and Poverty classic version 6:15 PM Thursday September 8 till November 17 Advanced course The Science of Political Economy 6:15 PM Tuesday September 6 till November 15 Both classes will be held at 333 S Wabash Ave #2700 Chicago, Illinois To …
Starting in January: Progress & Poverty, Applied Economics, more
Introducing Progress & Poverty, a single session providing an overview of Henry George’s most important ideas and how they apply here and now, will be presented twice in January, on Thursdays January 9 and January 16. The first session will be done by veteran HGS instructor George Menninger, and the second by instructor Chuck Metalitz. …
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