Fred Harrison – Ethical Economics Books and Research

Taken for a Ride – 2nd Edition

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 09:09:49 +0000

South London commercial property owner, Don Riley’s fortunes changed when the government extended Transport for London’s Jubilee Line. The groundbreaking book Taken for a Ride conclusively demonstrates how public money, operated by the government, provides the basis for private profits and guaranteed incomes. Following the 1st edition of Taken for a Ride, Riley, with contributing author Fred…

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Land and Taxation – 2nd Edition

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sat, 20 May 2023 11:01:01 +0000

You can now purchase this eBook as part of our Shepheard Walwyn Classics Trilogy bundle here… Economists know that the optimum conditions for private enterprise are achieved when taxes on the earned incomes of labour and capital are reduced to zero but, because neoclassical economic theory insists on treating land as capital, they dismiss the obvious alternative to taxing labour and capital…

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Ricardo’s Law

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sat, 20 May 2023 11:00:37 +0000

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” David Ricardo This book offers the first comprehensive assessment of Tony Blair’s premiership and his Third Way project. It reveals the hidden flaw in the market economy…

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The Traumatised Society

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sat, 20 May 2023 11:00:37 +0000

Finalist in 2012-13 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE for Non-Fiction The author was the first to forecast the events that ruptured the global economy in 2008 by applying an analysis that exposes the fault lines in the structure of the market economy. Having correctly forecast the timing of the global crisis, he now extends his analysis to the future of the West, to evaluate fears from distinguished…

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Rent Unmasked

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sat, 20 May 2023 11:00:37 +0000

Winner of the Best Achievement Award in the 2016-7 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION Rent Unmasked explores the new economic paradigm that policy-makers need to solve global problems in the post-2008 era. With conventional economic theories discredited, the new model must equip governments with tools to re-stabilise societies in a dangerous world. Rent Unmasked explains why one paradigm only…

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The Power In The Land – 2nd Edition

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sat, 20 May 2023 11:00:36 +0000

Shortlisted for The People’s Book Prize 2021-2022. The major industrial nations enter the 1990s in the midst of land booms offering riches for a few but unemployment for many. Fred Harrison’s thesis is that land speculation is the major cause of depressions. He shows how the land market functions as a junction box which regulates the power flowing between Labour and Capital.

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The Predator Culture

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sat, 20 May 2023 11:00:36 +0000

Finalist in 2010-11 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE for Non-Fiction Fred Harrison draws on global-wide case studies to show how the violent birth of nation-states, whether the result of territorial conquests or colonialism, splits the population into two classes, victors and vanquished. This division is perpetuated and legitimated through the system of land tenure. The pathological consequences – as diverse…

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The Corruption of Economics – 2nd Edition

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sat, 20 May 2023 11:00:35 +0000

Revealing the mystery of persistent economic failure, this book explains how the distorted view of economics has protected vested interests and prevented a more efficient economy, more equitable distribution of wealth and greater protection for the environment. This book is for those who know there is something wrong with our current system and want to discover more about what this is and what…

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Boom Bust

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sat, 20 May 2023 11:00:35 +0000

In the two and a half years since the first edition appeared (April 2005), events have unfolded as predicted. Then the consensus among forecasters was that the boom in house prices would cool to an annual 2 or 3% rise over the following years. In fact, in keeping with the ‘winner’s curse’ phase of the cycle described by the author, prices rose by more than 10% per annum in Britain.

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