Land Taxation – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

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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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 People’s Budget

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

Although the Edwardian period may in retrospect appear to have been a golden age, it was in reality a time of much turbulence in the political and social fields. There were long and often violent strikes in the docks and coalmines as well as in other less vital industries. Poverty was endemic, and it was the fear of the creation of a semi-criminal underclass as much as feelings of benevolence that…

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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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The Fair Tax

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

The tax regime in Ireland, Colm McCarthy points out in his Preface, has been very favourable to property owners, but especially to developers who, together with their banks, took maximum advantage. It fuelled the disastrous property boom with the huge development-site debts racked up by a handful of avaricious developers, and led directly to the Irish state having to shore up the collapsing banks.

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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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Land and Taxation – 2nd Edition

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

You can now purchase this eBook as part of our Shepheard Walwyn Classics Trilogy bundle here… Economists know that the optimum conditions for private enterprise are achieved when taxes on the earned incomes of labour and capital are reduced to zero but, because neoclassical economic theory insists on treating land as capital, they dismiss the obvious alternative to taxing labour and capital…

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Public Revenue without Taxation

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

This book challenges the need for government to resort to all manner of taxes which restrict economic activity, killing the goose which lays the golden eggs. At the same time it undermines the integrity of the political process and spawns a lucrative tax avoidance industry. The author argues that not only does taxation flout the principle of private property, but it ‘is a primal cause of both…

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Rent Unmasked

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

Winner of the Best Achievement Award in the 2016-7 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION Rent Unmasked explores the new economic paradigm that policy-makers need to solve global problems in the post-2008 era. With conventional economic theories discredited, the new model must equip governments with tools to re-stabilise societies in a dangerous world. Rent Unmasked explains why one paradigm only…

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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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