Land Taxation – 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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Location Matters

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

Land rights confer wealth, but not uniformly. Location matters – building Canary Wharf in a desert without the associated infrastructure would not have made anyone richer. The same effort and investment on a prime site yields a far better return than on a marginal one. The Government is planning to build 300,000 affordable homes, but the price of such a home in London or the North will vary…

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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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Lie of the Land

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

The culture of deception that underpins the economics of agriculture is documented by Dr Duncan Pickard in this hard-hitting expos. Governments and lobbyists manipulate statistics to disguise the real incomes of farmers, to justify the subsidies that enrich a relatively few big landowners. But in doing so, they abuse the interests of consumers and taxpayers. Dr Pickard, whose family farms 1,100…

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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Includes 4 previously unpublished essays by 1996 Nobel laureate William Vickrey Hardly a day passes without some comment in the press on the adverse effect of taxation on some sector of the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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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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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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Our Land, Our Rent, Our Jobs

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

“How do 52 million South Africans share equitably in their 122 million hectares, especially when those hectares vary so enormously in value? … No prizes for guessing it cannot possibly be done without taking a long hard look at the phenomenon of land or economic rent – and then collecting the community created value that it represents. Moreover if, as is possible and advisable, we do that instead…

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Re-Solving the Economic Puzzle

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

A finalist of Non-Fiction Category of THE PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE (2011/2012). In the richest nation on earth, people are mired in poverty. Food is produced on a vast scale, yet families go hungry. Homeless men and women huddle in doorways of boarded-up housing. A deep-rooted cause of this inequality, the author reveals, lies in an injustice that permeates the economic system of America and the…

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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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