History – Ethical Economics Books and Research

Famous buildings don’t just document the past, they also tell the future

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 09:09:29 +0000

It’s a well-known fact that the world’s most renowned construction projects, monuments and buildings have historically been built to celebrate something. To commemorate the past, in other words. Whether they are ancient works, like the Great Pyramids of Giza being used to celebrate the glory of the Egyptians pharaohs, or more recent creations like Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri…

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Should the World Economic Forum prioritise Climate Change over Economics?

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 09:37:41 +0000

In their Global Risks Report the World Economic Forum listed five environmental issues as the top risks to the global economy in 2020, overshadowing all other risks, including economic, and called for a new “growth paradigm” that addresses the interconnectedness of socio-economic factors with climate change. In an article entitled ‘The Greening of Mrs Thatcher’, The Economist reported her as…

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Poverty is not Natural

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 09:42:24 +0000

The first United Nations Sustainable Development Goal is to ‘End poverty in all its forms everywhere’, and yet regardless of whether there is a left wing, right wing or centrist government in power, the gap between rich and poor continues to increase, suggesting some common cause that is being overlooked. Nelson Mandela maintained in his 2005 Trafalgar Square address that ‘Like slavery and…

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Models of Fair Public Ownership

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 09:46:29 +0000

So often, the debate about public ownership is based on a narrative that sets the public interest against the private interest. In this debate in western democracies, one can characterise the period since the Second World War as having been a game of two halves. In Britain during the war, a social democratic narrative emerged, where the interests of society would be put first, in part to reward…

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Mens Creatrix – The Creator Mind : William Temple and Brexit

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 07:30:45 +0000

By John Symons People debate endlessly whether or not Churchill would have supported Brexit. But what of the great man whom Churchill recommended to the King in 1942 as Archbishop of Canterbury? Which side would William Temple, perhaps the greatest Archbishop in the last century, have supported? Temple is correctly regarded as a man of the liberal left, in so far as that approach was…

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Overcoming Poverty

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 07:35:50 +0000

In Progress and Poverty Henry George sought the ‘cause of industrial depressions and the increase of want with the increase of wealth’ and offered a ‘remedy’ which remains as relevant to the problems of poverty and inequality we face today, as when he first wrote, but it also opens a new way of dealing with environmental pollution. To understand the relevance of the ‘remedy’ we need to…

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A History of Land Value Taxation in Pittsburgh

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 07:44:34 +0000

This essay on Pittsburgh by Ian Hopton follows the theme of an earlier essay on New Zealand enquiring into the reasons why clearly successful systems of Land Value Taxation were nevertheless abandoned. The Graded Tax of Pittsburgh lasted from 1914 to 2001, and there is considerable evidence of its success, especially in the first decades of its existence. The tax was a form of the ‘split rate’…

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Tony Blair initiative to solve housing crisis

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 08:36:29 +0000

The Observer (3rd Dec) revealed a new initiative to tackle the housing crisis from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Blair is proposing that council tax and business rates, which are currently based on the value of the site and any building or improvement on it, be replaced by a tax which relates solely to the value of the land under the buildings, arguing that it is a “fairer and more…

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Would Henry George’s ‘Remedy’ help us combat today’s global crises?

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 11:03:51 +0000

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Tax Reform needed to avoid another spectacular crash

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 11:19:31 +0000

This week marks the 10th anniversary of the event that triggered the 2007/8 crisis and the ensuing Great Recession. But it need not have happened. In November 1997 Fred Harrison, author of Boom Bust and The Power in the Land, wrote to Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Press Secretary, Alistair Campbell, to warn them about a ‘housing crisis that would end up in a depression’. No notice was taken.

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