This paper examines how we might apply the Law of Rent today and the potential this can have on the provision of public services, taxation and a rational distribution of wealth. In the paper ‘The Law of Rent – the concept’, it was suggested that if we understood the Law of Rent then the business

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In the final stages of the Labour Party leadership campaign, it is encouraging to hear that one of the candidates, Andy Burnham, has called for ‘a radical tax reform’ with Land-Value Taxation (LVT) at its heart – ‘an idea so old-Labour it can be traced back to Thomas Paine’. This is the first time since

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Shepheard-Walwyn is pleased to announce that The Predator Culture by Fred Harrison has been entered into the non-fiction section of The People’s Book Prize this Autumn. Readers are invited to participate in the selection of a winner by casting their vote at thepeoplesbookprize.com The Predator Culture Fred Harrison draws on global-wide case studies to show

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In the Preface to his Principles of Political Economy and Taxation David Ricardo wrote: ‘… without a knowledge of [the law of rent], it is impossible to understand the effect of the progress of wealth on profits and wages, or to trace satisfactorily the influence of taxation on different classes of the community’ In Ricardo’s Law Fred

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by Adrian Hoare George Osborne has invited the public’s views on what might be done to help the country out of its current financial crisis. It is to be hoped that he will seriously consider all that is suggested; he needs to be looking out for ideas that are different from those that have hampered

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Take the example of a parent and child: it is possible both to punish and to love when the punishment is directed to the good – that of teaching the child right and wrong. However, if one claimed to love a person while exploiting them, the spectre of hypocrisy would immediately arise. It is sometimes

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In this YouTube clip, Joshua Vincent, executive director of the Henry George Foundation of America, introduces himself, his organisation, and his mission, and asks why, in the richest country in the world, does poverty exist?

If the claims of David Cameron and Nick Clegg are to be taken at face value, here in the UK we now live under a radical transforming government unprecedented in its progressive ambition.  Of course, there is nothing in the coalition agreement to justify the hyperbole, but there may be a glimmer of  hope. For

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