Basic Georgist Principles
Session 4

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Basic Georgist Principles

Join us for an intro to the basics of Georgism.

This course overviews Henry George’s analysis of why poverty persists despite technological progress. We’ll examine some of the public policies that have failed to eliminate involuntary poverty, and what practical remedies could make the opportunity for everyone to earn a comfortable living.

The course is based on George’s book, Progress & Poverty. The original text is a masterpiece of 19th-century exposition and analysis, but it is over 500 pages and not exactly light reading. This course won’t assume that you’ve read the book. There are several versions available at https://hgchicago.org/links/henry-georges-books/.

The instructor:

Chuck Metalitz, AICP, is an instructor at the Henry George School of Chicago. He earlier worked in regional planning. He has AB and MBA degrees from University of Chicago, and MA in urban/economic geography from University of California (Berkeley).

Instructor: Chuck Metalitz

Dates: Wednesdays: 11/19, 12/03, 12/10, 1/07, 1/14

Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET

Location: Online via Zoom

Note: This is an online event. After registration, the Zoom link, along with the Meeting ID and Passcode, will be provided via email the day of each session.

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CHRISTMAS DAY

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Basic Georgist Principles
Session 3

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Basic Georgist Principles

Join us for an intro to the basics of Georgism.

This course overviews Henry George’s analysis of why poverty persists despite technological progress. We’ll examine some of the public policies that have failed to eliminate involuntary poverty, and what practical remedies could make the opportunity for everyone to earn a comfortable living.

The course is based on George’s book, Progress & Poverty. The original text is a masterpiece of 19th-century exposition and analysis, but it is over 500 pages and not exactly light reading. This course won’t assume that you’ve read the book. There are several versions available at https://hgchicago.org/links/henry-georges-books/.

The instructor:

Chuck Metalitz, AICP, is an instructor at the Henry George School of Chicago. He earlier worked in regional planning. He has AB and MBA degrees from University of Chicago, and MA in urban/economic geography from University of California (Berkeley).

Instructor: Chuck Metalitz

Dates: Wednesdays: 11/19, 12/03, 12/10, 1/07, 1/14

Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET

Location: Online via Zoom

Note: This is an online event. After registration, the Zoom link, along with the Meeting ID and Passcode, will be provided via email the day of each session.

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Rentier Capitalism
Session 10

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Rentier Capitalism

Using Brett Christopher’s Rentier Capitalism as reference, this course explores the inordinate power and wealth of large corporations to monopolize and monopsonize markets in order to maximize and extract economic rent.

Though the course material focuses on rentierism in the UK … still reeling from Thatcherite privatizations of state-owned enterprises in the 80s to present day, common to all this is the giveaway and privatization of billions of dollars-worth of economic rent prevalent in Western economies today. The course underscores the importance that George gave to the control of monopolies, beyond simple land value taxation.

Recommended text available at https://www.amazon.com/Rentier-Capitalism-Owns-Economy-Pays/dp/1788739728

Instructor: Dr. Marty Rowland

Dates: Part 1: Wednesdays – 9/03, 9/10, 9/17, 9/24, 10/01; Part 2: Wednesdays – 10/08, 10/15, 10/22, 10/29; Monday – 12/08

Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET

Location: Online via Zoom

Note: This is an online event. After registration, the Zoom link, along with the Meeting ID and Passcode, will be provided via email the day of each session.

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Basic Georgist Principles
Session 2

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Basic Georgist Principles

Join us for an intro to the basics of Georgism.

This course overviews Henry George’s analysis of why poverty persists despite technological progress. We’ll examine some of the public policies that have failed to eliminate involuntary poverty, and what practical remedies could make the opportunity for everyone to earn a comfortable living.

The course is based on George’s book, Progress & Poverty. The original text is a masterpiece of 19th-century exposition and analysis, but it is over 500 pages and not exactly light reading. This course won’t assume that you’ve read the book. There are several versions available at https://hgchicago.org/links/henry-georges-books/.

The instructor:

Chuck Metalitz, AICP, is an instructor at the Henry George School of Chicago. He earlier worked in regional planning. He has AB and MBA degrees from University of Chicago, and MA in urban/economic geography from University of California (Berkeley).

Instructor: Chuck Metalitz

Dates: Wednesdays: 11/19, 12/03, 12/10, 1/07, 1/14

Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET

Location: Online via Zoom

Note: This is an online event. After registration, the Zoom link, along with the Meeting ID and Passcode, will be provided via email the day of each session.

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The Missing 120 Years: What Lizzie Magie Taught Us — and Why We Must Finish Her Work
Webinar

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The Missing 120 Years: What Lizzie Magie Taught Us — and Why We Must Finish Her Work

For 120 years, America has lived with only half the story.

In 1904, Lizzie Magie designed The Landlord’s Game to teach Henry George’s vision of shared prosperity, ethical wealth, and perpetual circulation — a system meant to prevent the poverty cycles we still struggle with today. But when Monopoly commercialized only the “winner-take-all” version, Magie’s original lesson disappeared.

This webinar uncovers what was lost — and how those ideas can still transform the financial well-being of ordinary Americans.

Drawing from her upcoming book, Independent Economics: The People’s Guide to Moral Wealth and Perpetual Prosperity, Honey B. Blues will connect Magie’s forgotten Prosperity rules to a modern, non-speculative framework based on moral wealth, community savings, and perpetual reinvestment. She’ll explore how simple tools, such as CD ladders and Treasury notes, can help rebuild stability without market risk or predatory debt.

Speaker bio: Honey B. Blues is an independent economic researcher and the author of the upcoming book IndependentEconomics: The People’s Guide to Moral Wealth and Perpetual Prosperity. Her work focuses on rediscovering forgotteneconomic ideas— especially the lost vision of Lizzie Magie — and translating them into practical, non-speculative savings systems for ordinary Americans. Blues’ research centers on moral wealth, community resilience, and perpetually circulating financial models that reduce dependence on unstable markets.

Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Time: 6:30PM to 7:30PM ET

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Note: This is an online event. After registration, the Zoom link, along with the Meeting ID and Passcode, will be provided via email the day of the session.

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THANKSGIVING DAY

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THANKSGIVING DAY

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Basic Georgist Principles
Session 1

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Basic Georgist Principles

Join us for an intro to the basics of Georgism.

This course overviews Henry George’s analysis of why poverty persists despite technological progress. We’ll examine some of the public policies that have failed to eliminate involuntary poverty, and what practical remedies could make the opportunity for everyone to earn a comfortable living.

The course is based on George’s book, Progress & Poverty. The original text is a masterpiece of 19th-century exposition and analysis, but it is over 500 pages and not exactly light reading. This course won’t assume that you’ve read the book. There are several versions available at https://hgchicago.org/links/henry-georges-books/.

The instructor:

Chuck Metalitz, AICP, is an instructor at the Henry George School of Chicago. He earlier worked in regional planning. He has AB and MBA degrees from University of Chicago, and MA in urban/economic geography from University of California (Berkeley).

Instructor: Chuck Metalitz

Dates: Wednesdays: 11/19, 12/03, 12/10, 1/07, 1/14

Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET

Location: Online via Zoom

Note: This is an online event. After registration, the Zoom link, along with the Meeting ID and Passcode, will be provided via email the day of each session.

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Prosperity Without Tariffs
Session 10

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Prosperity Without Tariffs

Henry George’s Protection or Free Trade was subtitled “with Special Regard to the Interests of Labor.” Yet this book and his free trade stance alienated both the unions and the Irish immigrant workers who had been his core supporters. Today, the book is popular with conservatives and Neo-libertarians as a defense of conventional free-trade policies. While both get him wrong, George’s bold stance on Free Trade, controversial as it is, may hold the key to securing prosperity without tariffs.

In this two-part lecture series, Dan Sullivan will present the background context and lead a discussion of the book, beginning with Chapter 26 (True Free Trade), and then proceed through all the subsequent chapters, from Chapter 19 onward, to establish labor’s interests.

Those who are interested in getting ahead of the discussion can look at the following links:

Terence Powderly asks to focus on land value tax and take on protectionism only after the land tax victory is won.

http://www.savingcommunities.org/docs/powderly.terence/30years08.html#cure-all

Maria Mazzenga and Dan Sullivan on the interactions between Henry George, Terence Powderly, Father Edward McGlynn (video). https://vimeo.com/48893598

Protection or Free Trade, chapter 26, “True Free Trade.” https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1652#lf0448_head_027

Instructor: Dan Sullivan

Dates: Part 1: Mondays: 9/08, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29, 10/06; Part 2: Mondays – 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10, 11/17

Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET

Location: Online via Zoom

Note: This is an online event. After registration, the Zoom link, along with the Meeting ID and Passcode, will be provided via email the day of each session.

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Robert Morris: His Fight Against Localism in Revolutionary America
Webinar (Part 2)

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Robert Morris: His Fight Against Localism in Revolutionary America

The origin story of the United States of America is filled with numerous twists and turns. The fact that the people and leaders of the 13 British colonies managed to earn their independence from the 18th century’s most powerful naval and land power was anything but certain. However, winning independence required an army and a navy, as well as the capacity to provide all the goods necessary to match the enemy. In this lecture series, we present and discuss the role of Robert Morris, an American patriot who made it his life mission to coordinate and mobilize resources even when cooperation among the 13 States was difficult.

Instructor: Edward J. Dodson

Dates: Thursday, November 6 and 13, 2025

Time: 6:30PM to 7:30PM ET

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Note: This is an online event. After registration, the Zoom link, along with the Meeting ID and Passcode, will be provided via email the day of the session.

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