Summer Sale – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

The Social Conscience

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:00 +0000

The author discusses the nature of the Social Conscience and the moral values that it embodies. Seeking to do what is right, motivated by a sympathetic awareness of others, driven by the instinct to care and acknowledging the necessity to share, the Social Conscience expresses innate moral values. In these troubled times, satisfactory solutions to economic and social problems will not be found…

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Globalisation for the Common Good

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:00 +0000

Today, despite many significant achievements in science, technology, medicine, transportation and communications, and a vast increase in world trade, the globalized world economy is facing serious socio-economic, political, cultural and environmental problems, of potentially catastrophic proportions. Although many attempts have been made by international organizations like the World Bank and IMF…

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The Natural Economy

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:59 +0000

Many doubt the existence of economic laws, but the once mighty Soviet Union collapsed because the grand theory on which it was based did not accord with the facts of economic life. It was unscientific. More recently, Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer in Britain from 1997-2007, repeated almost like a mantra ‘we will never return to the old boom and bust’ even in his April 2007 Budget…

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Re-Solving the Economic Puzzle

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:53 +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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Poverty is not Natural

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:47 +0000

Shortlisted for The People’s Book Prize 2021-2022. “Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings” Nelson Mandela Poverty is not Natural was listed by Martin Wolf as one of his ‘best reads so far’ in the Financial Times (June 2020), adding: ‘George Curtis has a soft spot for Henry George. So do I.

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