Philosophy – Ethical Economics Books and Research

BOOK REVIEW: How our Economy really works

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 06:28:42 +0000

The author, is, unusually for a supporter of land value taxation and free trade, a graduate in economics, having gained a first class honours degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the University of Oxford. This puts him in the advantageous position of being able to apply a critique of mainstream economics in its own terms, something which most of us are unable to do. For those who have…

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Understanding Land-value Taxation

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 07:17:26 +0000

Over the last year or so there have been a number of articles broaching the subject of land-value taxation in the national press. The Economist (9th August) even suggested ‘The time may be right for land-value taxes’, but there is also much misunderstanding about that a land-value tax (LVT) is. In the first place it is not a tax. A tax was defined by Hugh Dalton, later Chancellor of the…

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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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Review in International Journal of Environmental Studies

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 05:50:51 +0000

This analysis [The Traumatised Society] integrates many data and many explanations to attack private land ownership as the basis of current economics. Harrison argues that cultural genocide … has afflicted Western civilization … [He] relates this to the omission of land as a term from the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to the evisceration of economic rent by neo-classical economics.

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Can LVT Save Us?

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 05:53:12 +0000

The Land Value Tax (LVT) is a “radical” form of taxation first proposed by Henry George in his 1879 Progress and Poverty (see What If Marx Got it Wrong?). What George proposes is to replace taxes on wages, purchases, and investments with a tax on unimproved land and natural resources. Fred Harrison’s The Traumatised Society: How to Outlaw Cheating and Save Our Civilisation provides an exhaustive…

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St Paul’s Cathedral Protesters: the Dilemma facing the Church

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:25:42 +0000

As the protest camp on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral drags on into another week, the dilemma facing the church authorities intensifies, so much so that now three servants of the cathedral have resigned, including the Dean. The protest is not against the Church as such but just happens to be located on its doorstep so that it cannot avoid taking sides to some degree in the confrontation…

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What would a new economics and economy look like?

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:17:38 +0000

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 Common Good in 2002, he founded an annual…

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Autumn Books

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:40:48 +0000

John Clare: Voice of Freedom by R.S. Attack John Clare was highly affected by the Enclosures Movement, which consolidated the old strip-farming systems into larger units and removed the people’s rights to common land. In the process, families were dispossessed. Clare’s own experiences of living off the land and his distress at moving from place to place are expressed in his heartfelt poetry…

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Shepheard-Walwyn at Country Living Christmas Fair

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:48:00 +0000

On a non-Economics based note, we’d like to take this opportunity to let everyone know that we will be exhibiting at the Country Living Christmas Fair, 10-14 November at the Business Design Centre, London. Our full range of books, including our Economics titles, will be on sale – the perfect opportunity to pick up a unique Christmas present. You may not be aware that Shepheard-Walwyn publish a…

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John Clare: Voice of Freedom – now published!

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:08:26 +0000

Our latest book, John Clare: Voice of Freedom, by R S Attack, is now available. The book is a unique look at the life and poetry of John Clare, who lived at a time of great upheaval during the Enclosure movement. The book is a must read for anyone interested in great English poets, but the book focuses in particular on the economic and social consequences of an important period in history…

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