Radical Tax Reform: The Answer to Tax Evasion, Budget Deficits and Welfare Cuts Duncan Pickard The governments of almost all countries have budget deficits and increasing national debts. The taxes* they currently collect are unable to meet the increasing costs of health and welfare provision for their
MAGNA CARTA - THE UGLY TRUTH Fred Harrison If we want to discover where modern European civilisation went wrong, one of the places to look for clues is this field because, in the 13th century a king met his barons and knights in a field along the
George contra Darwin: Human Nature and Evolution Simon McKenna In Progress and Poverty, George refutes Darwin’s contention that social improvements are physically transmitted through the generations of mankind. Although Darwin was not aware of DNA as such, he foresaw the discovery of such a mechanism, which he
Book Review The Moral Economy of the Countryside: Anglo-Saxon to Anglo-Norman England Rosamond Faith Cambridge University Press, 2020 Reviewed by Edward Barnett I remember receiving a history book as a present when I was around 8 or 9 years old. It was an illustrated history of England from 1066 and
Review Author: Andro Linklater Title: Owning the Earth – The Transforming History of Land Ownership Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2013 £15.20 Reviewed by Lasse S. Anderson Surveying the world before the year 1800, most of the world’s land was held either collectively by various traditional bands and societies or corporately by the higher
Letter from Editor Land&Liberty 1254 George observed that the human species is distinguished from all other species through cooperation and exchange: “All living things that we know of cooperate in some kind and to some degree. So far as we can see, nothing that lives can
A Fresh Vision for Georgism Brian Chance In Progress and Poverty, Henry George explained the fundamental truth that a relatively higher value of land at some locations was created by the presence and work of the whole community and that to appropriate it for the private use
