Featured Books – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

The Shepheard-Walwyn Trilogy: How Economics Has Lost Its Way

SheaFowb429Aslf — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 03:38:24 +0000

Poverty is a complex phenomenon. It is defined as income often measured in terms of per capita gross domestic product (GDP). A broader definition treats poverty as multidimensional, including low income, low levels of education and health, vulnerability (to health or income loss, natural disaster, crime and violence, and education curtailment) and voicelessness and powerlessness (feeling…

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16 Days of Activism: Uncovering the Reality of Violence Against Women

SheaFowb429Aslf — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 03:27:20 +0000

We are actively supporting the campaign to advance the human rights of women, The Global 16 Days Campaign. Did you know that as many as 1 in 3 women worldwide experience violence[1]? Gender-based violence against women is one of today’s most widespread and persistent human rights violations. Women suffer in silence as gender-based violence against women often remains unreported, mainly due to the…

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Are Trees Talking Underground?

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 02:21:54 +0000

Author Heather Remoff has been published in the Letters to the Editor section of The New York Times before and raised some interesting points in this unpublished letter to The New York Times in response to their recent article, Are Trees Talking Underground? For Scientists It’s in dispute. To the Editor, Why are scientists having a difficult time accepting that trees in a forest might…

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Burns Night – A master of song celebrated

SheaFowb429Aslf — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 05:54:12 +0000

25th January is Burns Night, the day in which the National Bard of Scotland, Robert Burns, is celebrated with supper, conviviality and poetry. It seemed appropriate at this time to focus this blog post on one of our classic titles, Twenty Most Favourite Songs of Burns beautifully scribed and illustrated by Andrew Winton. This volume takes the songs of Burns and presents them alongside the music…

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Celebrating 400 Years of Shakespeare’s Gifts

SheaFowb429Aslf — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 05:05:37 +0000

Celebrating 400 Years of Shakespeare’s Gifts To ask a group of Shakespeare lovers what it is that they love most in Shakespeare would be to raise a great hymn of praise and delight. Imagine then the crescendo we can expect on 23rd April 2016, when, as it seems, the whole world intends to mark his quartercentenary 400 years on. A great global party no less, uniting countless festivals, tributes…

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Contemplating the Nature of Love

SheaFowb429Aslf — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 04:48:01 +0000

The story-line of this new book is very simple. November 7 was presumed to be Plato’s birthday, and on that evening in 1468 nine men met at Careggi outside Florence in his honour. After supper the Symposium was read aloud, and each of the guests then spoke on the nature of love. Marsilio Ficino, who was also present, recorded what was said, although he himself did not speak…

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Hong Kong’s Economic Miracle Explained by Andrew Purves at ALTER Conference

SheaFowb429Aslf — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 04:22:19 +0000

Andrew Purves will be speaking at the ALTER Conference and AGM on 21st November in Oxford. ALTER is Action for Land Taxation and Economic Reform and is the Liberal Democrat campaign for Land Value Taxation – tax land not work. Andrew is the author of recent Ethical Economics book No Debt, High Growth, Low Tax and will be talking to ALTER members about the topics covered in his book.

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Ethical Economics Blog: The housing crisis and land development

SheaFowb429Aslf — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 04:15:46 +0000

In his recent article “How to Fix the Housing Crisis” in Prospect Magazine, Andrew Adonis argues that the public sector must use its underdeveloped land to provide new housing which is badly needed. This is a topic which caught the attention of our latest author, Andrew Purves. To read Purves’ full response in the comments section visit Prospect Magazine online. On our Ethical Economics blog we…

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Ethical Economics Blog: Is economic rent sufficient to fund a modern state?

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 04:10:42 +0000

Below is an extract from a recent blog post on our Ethical Economics website. To read the full post visit the blog here. “Having been convinced of the efficiency and justice inherent in Henry George’s proposal for a Land Value Tax (LVT) to capture the economic rent, the author of No Debt High Growth Low Tax sought to find an example of where it was put into practice. As a frequent visitor to…

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Huntington’s Disease Awareness Week

SheaFowb429Aslf — Thu, 07 May 2015 03:37:55 +0000

Huntington’s Disease is a degenerative hereditary disease which causes mental decline and physical symptoms such as jerkiness and uncoordinated movement. There is currently no cure for the disease and children of those who are affected have a 50% chance of inheriting it. 11-17 May is Huntington’s Disease Awareness week and the Huntington’s Disease Association are fundraising and raising awareness…

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