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Ricardo's Law
Ricardo's Law' provides a rational explanation of why, despite two centuries of capital accumulation, poverty persists in the rich nations - even with a 'welfare state' funded, in theory, on the basis of 'to each according to his needs; from each according to his means.
Brady and Hindley
The shocking true crime story of child murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, Great Britain’s most horrific serial killers. During the early 1960s, just as Beatlemania was exploding throughout the United Kingdom, a pair of psychopathic British killers began preying on the very young, innocent, and helpless of Greater Manchester. Between 1963 and 1965, Ian Brady and his lover and partner, Myra Hindley, were responsible for the abduction, rape, torture, and murder of five young victims, ranging in age from ten to seventeen years old. The English press dubbed the grisly series of homicides “the Moors Murders,” named for the desolate landscape where three of the corpses were eventually disc...
The Corruption of Economics
Condemning the post-industrial economy to protracted periods of economic failure, this thought-provoking book documents how the integrity of economics as a discipline was deliberately compromised in the United States towards the end of the 19th century. Several chairs of economics were funded at leading universities to rebrand economics to justify unearned income. The tools for this strategy became neo-classical economics, and, unlike classical economists like Adam Smith who described wealth as the product of three factors--land, labor, and capital--the new theorists reduced these to two: labor and capital, thus treating land as capital. This concealed the benefits enjoyed by those in receipt of the rent from land. The effect, the authors reveal, was to deprive professional economists of the ability to diagnose problems, forecast important trends, and prescribe solutions.
The Power In The Land
This book is as relevant today as it was when it was published in 1983: we are faced with another global depression, which as it deepens, intensifies the pressure on governments and puts policy-makers in a dilemma. Every prescription has its negative: monetarism - unemployment; Keynesianism - inflation; and the planned economy - authoritarianism. This dilemma, the author argues, stems from a distortion in our understanding of how the industrial economy works, a distortion he traces back to Adam Smith. Adam Smith provided the captains of industry with a theoretical framework and moral justification for the new mode of production which sprang from the Industrial Revolution. He believed he was ...
Wheels of Fortune
It is often assumed that government intervention is required to bring to fruition large scale infrastructure projects because the large initial capital outlays such projects require must be funded from the public purse. In Wheels of Fortune, Fred Harrison shows that large scale infrastructure projects can be made self-funding. Infrastructure projects almost always bring about a large increase in the value of adjoining land. For example, it is estimated that the London Underground Jubilee Line extension increased adjoining land values by close to £3 billion. When such infrastructure projects are funded by government, they therefore involve a substantial transfer of wealth from a large number of taxpayers to a small number of property owners. Harrison argues that a fairer and more efficient means to fund infrastructure projects is to capture and use the increases in land values that they bring.
Boom Bust
In the two and a half years since the first edition appeared (April 2005), events have unfolded as predicted. Then the consensus among forecasters was that the boom in house prices would cool to an annual 2 or 3% rise over the following years. In fact, in keeping with the 'winner's curse' phase of the cycle described by the author, prices rose by more than 10% per annum in Britain. Harrison's first book, The Power in the Land, predicted the early 1990s recession. Boom Bust, warned that investing in property is not always a safe bet, because the housing market is subject to a sharp downturn at the end of a remarkably regular 18-year cycle. The crash of 2007/8 occurred exactly as predicted. Hi...
Freedom and the End of Territorial Man
Fred Harrison, who is an economic consultant to several Russian federal government agencies, believes a radical revision of public policy towards taxation is needed to reduce barbaric behavior in many societies. The purpose of Harrison's proposed revisions is to return culture to humans who have had art, education, medication and religion siphoned off by the ruling classes.
Boom Bust
This work identifies an 18-year property cycle, recurring with remarkable regularity and similarity over the last 200 years, in different countries under different political, economic and cultural conditions.
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Summary of Fred Harrison's Brady and Hindley
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The murder of Mona Tinsley, a 10-year-old girl, attracted the attention of the police. They used a spiritualist to help them track down the killer, Frederick Nodder. Ian was 8-years-old when he experienced his first trauma. He saw a Clydesdale break a bone. #2 When Ian Stewart was 12, his dog became ill. He prayed to God that his pet would not die. His prayers went unanswered, which convinced Ian that there was no personal God. He then discovered that he was born a bastard. #3 Ian was now beyond his mother’s control, and she agreed to his departure. He went to live with his mother in Manchester, and he was sent to borstal training in Hull. He was psychopathic by the age of 17. #4 Before his release from borstal, Brady carefully filed away a list of names of inmates whom he thought would be useful to him in his career as a big-time crook. He made sure that he had a contact in every major town in the north of England.
