Authors – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

Cheating: The Human Project and its Betrayal

Tio — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:06:02 +0000

Kindly note that the ebook version is coming soon. Five thousand years ago, humanity made a huge mistake. The income generated from shared land, known as economic rent, was taken by chiefs and priests instead of being used for everyone’s benefit. Every unfair tax, every preventable death from poverty, and every financial crash since can be traced back to this original betrayal.

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The Saint and the Drunk

Max — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 04:03:01 +0000

What if you had an internal compass that could provide direction at every turning point in your life? The Saint and the Drunk – A Guide to Making the Big Decisions in Your Life shows people how to build a practice of intentional decision making. Everyone has access to reconnect to their authentic calling. But for many that access has been obscured by cultural or familial narratives…

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Phil Anderson and Jason Pizzino – Gold Coast Event Recording

Alan — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 03:27:59 +0000

Our first in-person live event with Phil Anderson is now available online! Only £50! This information-packed live event, including detailed Q&A, was filmed on the Gold Coast in April of 2022. Listen to Phil Anderson, along with Jason Pizzino, explain what the 18.6-year cycle is, how it works and exactly why it MUST repeat this time. Phil explains the stark similarities of how history…

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Land-value Taxation: The Equitable and Efficient Source of Public Finance

Alan — Tue, 28 May 2024 04:17:39 +0000

Land-value Taxation – This collection of 20 essays examines the merits of land-value taxation and distinguishes it from the conventional property tax because it has a more benign economic influence. It includes four essays by William S. Vickrey, the 1996 Nobel laureate in economics. ______________________________________________ Authors Kenneth C.

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Costing the Earth

Alan — Tue, 28 May 2024 03:33:02 +0000

Major economic and environmental crises stem from imperfections in the land market, yet the theory which explains the allocation and value of natural resources is relegated to the periphery of social science and ignored by policy-makers. This is the thesis advanced by the authors who argue that problems ranging from the deforestation of the Amason basin to urban decay can be traced to a common…

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Britain’s Prime Ministers

Alan — Mon, 20 May 2024 07:13:50 +0000

This useful single-volume collection combines an introductory essay on the emergence and changing role of the British prime minister with 51 concise biographies of the people who have played this role, from Sir Robert Walpole at the beginning of the 18th century to current prime minister Tony Blair. These essays reveal how each figure molded the office in response to the situation of the time…

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Who’s Who in Early Hanoverian Britain

Tio — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 09:33:57 +0000

This volume spans the period from the death of Queen Anne in 1714 to the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. Beginning with George I, the book provides 190 concise biographical essays on eminent personalities – royalty, politicians, churchmen, military leaders, men of letters, artists and scientists – arranged in roughly chronological order and forming a composite portrait of the age.

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What is a University?

Tio — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 09:29:51 +0000

The aspirations that professors have for their students are critiqued in this analysis of modern universities. Noting the deterioration in the quality of a college education, it is argued that the universal ideal of wisdom has, in recent decades, been sacrificed for the mere acquisition of knowledge. A case is made for universities to rethink what they take for granted as a proper education and…

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A Promise Kept: The Life and Work of Tom Chapman

Tio — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 08:51:07 +0000

A popular and respected trades unionist, Tom Chapman was elected a divisional organiser of the Amalgamated Engineering Union in 1958, beating his communist opponent by one vote. This pitched him into the bitter struggle between the moderates and the hard-left who, in many cases, were financed and directed from Moscow. Such conflict could be treated as an ugly memory best forgotten, but as the hard…

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The Corruption of Economics – 2nd Edition

Max — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 05:53:50 +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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