Common Good – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

Promoting the Common Good

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

Modern economics has deliberately divorced itself from all moral and ethical considerations in the belief that it needs to be a value-free science. In schools and universities students are taught that what matters is maximising profits and cutting costs – any other considerations are irrelevant to them as economists. This is the philosophy which guides multinationals…

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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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Crowning Glory: The Merits of Monarchy

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 08:29:48 +0000

With the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the debate around the merits of the monarchy is further ignited, as seen recently in the Commonwealth countries, where the movement towards transitioning to a republic state is gaining ground. Gattey presents a powerful argument as to why the monarchy helps to maintain stability within a country and so absorb more radical changes in its political and social…

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