Henry George – 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 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 Land Question

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

Henry George (1839 – 1897) was one of America’s most prominent social reformers. His magnum opus, Progress and Poverty, has enjoyed worldwide readership since its first publication in 1879 up to the present day. In his published works, George gave to the world a three-fold economic legacy: political, intellectual, and moral. This is perhaps clearest in this volume, which brings together three of…

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Land Value Taxation

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

Includes 4 previously unpublished essays by 1996 Nobel laureate William Vickrey Hardly a day passes without some comment in the press on the adverse effect of taxation on some sector of the economy. Recent headlines include: Financial Services firms hit by VAT on outsourcing. Budget hits road haulage industry hard. EU tax threat to eurobonds remains unresolved. [Rolling] Stones cancel tour…

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Henry George and Europe

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

The subject-matter of this work is the effect of the ideas of the American Henry George (1839-1897) on Europe in the last decades of the 19th and the early part of the 20th century. One might expect that the teachings of Henry George mainly affected the technicalities of landownership reform. But in actual fact, his effect was dominantly ideological. It was his social philosophy that influenced so…

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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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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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All Things Natural

SheaFowb429Aslf — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 06:20:50 +0000

Ficino’s commentary on Plato’s Timaeus offers the English reader, for the first time, an opportunity to share the insights of this highly influential Renaissance philosopher into one of Plato’s most important and controversial works. Here are discussed the perennial questions which affect us all: What is the nature of the universe? How did it begin? Does it have a cause outside itself?

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