eBooks – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

Realonomics

Max — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 03:16:24 +0000

In Neoclassical Economics – the only theory of economics that students are taught at university – there is no economic cycle, no unemployment, no recession, every market for every product is at a stable equilibrium – permanently, money is a mere medium of exchange that does not affect the economy, and therefore banks are also considered irrelevant. In reality, the Great Financial Crisis of 2008-09…

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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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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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The Power in the Land – 2nd Edition

Max — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 08:10:25 +0000

Shortlisted for The People’s Book Prize 2021-2022. The major industrial nations enter the 1990s in the midst of land booms offering riches for a few but unemployment for many. Fred Harrison’s thesis is that land speculation is the major cause of depressions. He shows how the land market functions as a junction box which regulates the power flowing between Labour and Capital.

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Taken for a Ride – 2nd Edition

Max — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 03:51:33 +0000

South London commercial property owner, Don Riley’s fortunes changed when the government extended Transport for London’s Jubilee Line. The groundbreaking book Taken for a Ride conclusively demonstrates how public money, operated by the government, provides the basis for private profits and guaranteed incomes. Following the 1st edition of Taken for a Ride, Riley, with contributing author Fred…

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The New School of Economics – 2nd Edition

Max — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 05:26:20 +0000

The New Physiocrats have developed a political-economic framework for the latest iteration of the original Physiocracy, modernized and expanded for the 21 st century. It is a movement established on a new way of economic thinking, what they refer to as the “New School of Economics.” The New Physiocratic League has finally managed to reconcile the concerns of the left and right…

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Shepheard Walwyn Classics

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 05:54:32 +0000

Providing a unique insight into modern economic problem solving and analysis, these three titles are the first volume in the Shepheard-Walwyn Classics Series. For more information on each book, please visit: A Philosophy for a Fair Society – 2nd Edition The Corruption of Economics – 2nd Edition Land and Taxation – 2nd Edition…

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On the Nature of Love

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:05 +0000

Finalist in 2015-16 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE for Non-Fiction “Ways of falling in love” was one of the topics discussed when nine men gathered at Careggi, outside Florence, on November 7th 1468, to honour Plato’s birthday. After the meal, his Symposium was read, and the guests – now reduced to seven – spoke on the nature of love. Other topics they covered include: “It is easy to fall in love.

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Location Matters

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:02 +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 Secret Life of Real Estate and Banking

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:01 +0000

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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