In a recent article in the Guardian Phillip Inman argued: ‘Amid all the talk of rebalancing the economy, there is little mention of the most powerful lever the government could pull to generate growth, which involves a switch from taxing income to taxing wealth’. He explains that ‘levies on land values do not depress wealth creation

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In his Budget, the Chancellor of the Exchequer promised to create a more level playing field by tackling tax avoidance, something the rich are much better at than the poor. To implement this, his Finance Bill contains complex and at times draconian legislation which could impact on any employee or employer in the UK, but,

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Just as Gordon Brown created a storm by his tax raid on pensions, so is George Osborne by his raid on North Sea oil companies. Brown created huge black holes in pension funds, while Osborne looks like halting massive North Sea Oil investment just when the government is urging companies to invest! It matters not

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In a review of the film Inside Job in the Guardian, Peter Bradshaw wrote: ‘Perhaps the most sensational aspect of this film is Ferguson’s contention that the crash corrupted the discipline of economics itself.’ As Prof Mason Gaffney and Fred Harrison point out in The Corruption of Economics this happened much earlier. Towards the end

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Shepheard-Walwyn have been invited to sponsor the 2011 Economics Conference, presented by the LSE SU Economics Society and LSE SU Finance Society to be held on the 12th of March. The theme of the conference is ‘The New Economy: Government policy, Economic Ideology and Financial Reform in the Global Recovery’. The opening session will be

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As Europe and, America struggle to avoid a double-dip recession while they grapple with reducing fiscal deficits, China is trying to head off a property boom without precipitating a bust that could tip it into a financial crisis. The Chinese authorities have already resorted to the orthodox capitalist method for curbing speculation and inflation, raising interest

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Dr Kamran Mofid, Adjunct Professor, Dalhousie School of Business, was born in Tehran. He received his BA and MA in economics from the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, in 1980 and 1982 respectively, and was awarded his doctorate in economics from the University of Birmingham, UK in 1986. Following the publication of Globalisation for the

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We are pleased to announce that Fred Harrison’s The Predator Culture has won a place as a finalist in the 2011 People’s Book prize. Voting re-opens for finalists in June 2011. Rosemary Attack’s John Clare: Voice of Freedom is included in the Winter selection and voting is open till the end of February 2011. To

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