Fair Society – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

Standing for Justice

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

“I suppose that for a very long time men will be emotional and sentimental. They will shed sad tears when they see men moving down the centre of the stream. They will devise well-meaning schemes to pull those fellows out of the stream, but they never think of going up the stream to see who threw them in.” HANSARD, 6th May 1931 “Poverty is not a normal state of society. It is a disease produced…

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The Spirit of Self-Help

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

Chosen for Spring 2017 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Non-Fiction When Dominic Sandbrook quoted Samuel Smiles extensively in his TV series on nineteenth-century work and leisure; when Ian Hislop flourished a copy of Smiles’s Self-Help (“the book that launched the genre”) in his programme on ‘Workers or Shirkers?’; when Andy Burnham reflected publicly on “lack of aspiration” as a…

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The Advancement of Civilisation in the Western World – Volume 2: The Medieval World

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

This is a series of 3 books. Each are available to purchase separately or can be bought together for a discount. Volume 1: Egypt, Greece & Rome Volume 2: The Medieval World Volume 3: The Modern World “History is the essence of innumerable biographies.” Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian “Histories make men wise.” Francis Bacon, English courtier and essayist The Middle Ages saw the…

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The Science of Political Economy

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

A new abridged edition of George’s last work. Extends the classical analysis of Adam Smith and the Physiocrats on the nature of wealth and value, cooperation and exchange, space and time. ______________________________________________ Author Details Born in Philadelphia in 1839, Henry George went on to San Francisco and became a newspaper editor who addressed the social problems of his day.

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The Rule of Law

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

The challenge of the twenty-first century is how to establish access to the resources of the earth for the whole population so that the able-bodied can support themselves. The welfare state can then be slimmed down to no more than is necessary to provide for the diseased and disabled. These constitute only a small minority who could then be provided for with more generosity than at present.

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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 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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Social Problems

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

Social Problems, written in 1883, was more than a perceptive analysis of the problems of society not only of the United States but the world at the time. It revealed the root cause of the social ills that still afflict us today. Henry George warned that unless the system of land tenure was reformed, unless the individual’s freedom of action was enhanced, even graver ecological, economic…

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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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Our Land, Our Rent, Our Jobs

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

“How do 52 million South Africans share equitably in their 122 million hectares, especially when those hectares vary so enormously in value? … No prizes for guessing it cannot possibly be done without taking a long hard look at the phenomenon of land or economic rent – and then collecting the community created value that it represents. Moreover if, as is possible and advisable, we do that instead…

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