Politics – Ethical Economics Books and Research

The Fair Tax

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sat, 20 May 2023 11:01:25 +0000

The tax regime in Ireland, Colm McCarthy points out in his Preface, has been very favourable to property owners, but especially to developers who, together with their banks, took maximum advantage. It fuelled the disastrous property boom with the huge development-site debts racked up by a handful of avaricious developers, and led directly to the Irish state having to shore up the collapsing banks.

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The People’s Budget

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sat, 20 May 2023 11:01:02 +0000

Although the Edwardian period may in retrospect appear to have been a golden age, it was in reality a time of much turbulence in the political and social fields. There were long and often violent strikes in the docks and coalmines as well as in other less vital industries. Poverty was endemic, and it was the fear of the creation of a semi-criminal underclass as much as feelings of benevolence that…

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The Science of Political Economy

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sat, 20 May 2023 11:01:02 +0000

A new abridged edition of George’s last work. Extends the classical analysis of Adam Smith and the Physiocrats on the nature of wealth and value, cooperation and exchange, space and time. ______________________________________________ Author Details Born in Philadelphia in 1839, Henry George went on to San Francisco and became a newspaper editor who addressed the social problems of his day.

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The Rule of Law

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sat, 20 May 2023 11:01:02 +0000

The challenge of the twenty-first century is how to establish access to the resources of the earth for the whole population so that the able-bodied can support themselves. The welfare state can then be slimmed down to no more than is necessary to provide for the diseased and disabled. These constitute only a small minority who could then be provided for with more generosity than at present.

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Globalisation for the Common Good

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sat, 20 May 2023 11:01:02 +0000

Today, despite many significant achievements in science, technology, medicine, transportation and communications, and a vast increase in world trade, the globalized world economy is facing serious socio-economic, political, cultural and environmental problems, of potentially catastrophic proportions. Although many attempts have been made by international organizations like the World Bank and IMF…

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Public Revenue without Taxation

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

This book challenges the need for government to resort to all manner of taxes which restrict economic activity, killing the goose which lays the golden eggs. At the same time it undermines the integrity of the political process and spawns a lucrative tax avoidance industry. The author argues that not only does taxation flout the principle of private property, but it ‘is a primal cause of both…

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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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Land Value Taxation

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

Includes 4 previously unpublished essays by 1996 Nobel laureate William Vickrey Hardly a day passes without some comment in the press on the adverse effect of taxation on some sector of the economy. Recent headlines include: Financial Services firms hit by VAT on outsourcing. Budget hits road haulage industry hard. EU tax threat to eurobonds remains unresolved.[Rolling] Stones cancel tour…

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The Natural Economy

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sat, 20 May 2023 11:00:38 +0000

Many doubt the existence of economic laws, but the once mighty Soviet Union collapsed because the grand theory on which it was based did not accord with the facts of economic life. It was unscientific. More recently, Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer in Britain from 1997-2007, repeated almost like a mantra ‘we will never return to the old boom and bust’ even in his April 2007 Budget…

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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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