Real Estate – Ethical Economics Books and Research https://ethicaleconomicsbooks.com Ethical Economics Local and Global Books and Resources for analysing ethics in the economy Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:29:57 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 The Fair Tax https://ethicaleconomicsbooks.com/product/the-fair-tax/ Sat, 20 May 2023 11:01:25 +0000 https://ethicaleconomicsbooks.com/?post_type=product&p=634 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 Secret Life of Real Estate and Banking https://ethicaleconomicsbooks.com/product/the-secret-life-of-real-estate-and-banking/ Sat, 20 May 2023 11:01:02 +0000 https://ethicaleconomicsbooks.com/?post_type=product&p=620 Chosen for July 2009 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Non-Fiction Real estate is sold as a much safer investment than the constantly fluctuating stock market. Share price volatility is compared unfavourably with the steadier and impressive gains made from real estate which is, we are told, ‘as safe as houses’. As millions of Americans – and countless others in the Western world – have…

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