Why you can afford to travel the world but can't afford a basic house?
      Why you have to live so far from where you work?
      Why you have to work for someone else?
      Why your rising council tax doesn't seem to be improving your area?
      How the earth will manage to support your children?
      About our values, when we waste so much while some barely survive?

If you have, you're not the first.

The economist Henry George asked these sort of questions over 120 years ago, then he realised they were all just different parts of the same problem. He wrote a book, Progress and Poverty, that became the world's best selling book on economics and society.

Great thinkers including Churchill, Einstein and Tolstoy believed he held the key to creating the basis of a truly prosperous and just society.

So why have so few of us heard of him, and why will it make so much difference if we do?

This is the book that has long been waited for! It is a rewriting of conventional economics relating it to the real world by including the fundamental role played by land, the significance of credit and the banking system and the crucial impact of the method of taxation. 

A New Model of the Economy by Brian Hodgkinson

This book offers a radical revision of modern economic theory. Its starting point is the existing body of both micro and macro economics, as developed in such textbooks as Economics by Begg, Fischer and Dombusch and Positive Economics by Lipsey and Chrystal. Following a similar framework to these books, it adjusts the whole range of theory by introducing some new concepts and other earlier ones that have been much neglected in the economic thought of the past century. These are related especially to the fundamental part played by land, in it proper sense of all natural resources available on the earth, the significance of credit, especially through the banking system, and the crucial impact of the method of taxation.

The resulting analysis yields a thoroughly revised version of the contemporary model of a capitalist economy, so that a genuine ‘third way’ is revealed. This is not a mere modification of the present system of absentee ownership confronting a market for labour, with all the attendant evils of unemployment, monopoly and maldistribution of wealth and income. Rather it is a system based upon natural law, exhibiting economic security for all, fair distribution of output and, above all, the opportunity for self-fulfilment through work.

Now published and available @ £30.00 HB from Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd.    15 Alder Road, London, SW14 8ER.  www.shepheard-walwyn.co.uk