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  • The Corruption of Economics

    by Mason Gaffney, Fred Harrison ...
    Series Book 1 - Shepheard Walwyn Classics
    Some years ago, The Economist carried a lead editorial, ‘The puzzling failure of economics’. The frank admission was provoked by the publication of a new edition of Paul Samuelson’s Economist. The editorial concluded that it ‘is not a failure of economics, in fact, but of modern [neo-classical] economics’.The authors argue there is nothing puzzling about this failure. They document how the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Shepheard Walwyn Classics

    3 in 1

    by Fred Harrison, Mason Gaffney, Michael Hudson, G.J. Miller, Kris Fender, Nicholas Tideman ...
    Series Book 1 - Shepheard Walwyn Classics
    Anthology containing:The Corruption of Economics by Mason Gaffney & Fred HarrisonLand and Taxation by Nicolaus TidemanA Philosophy for a Fair Society by Michael Hudson, G.J. Miller & Kris Feder ... Read more

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  • Land and Taxation

    by Nicolaus Tideman,, V.H. Blundell, Fred Foldvary, Phd, Mason Gaffney, Phd, Fred Harrison, M.Sc., Nicolaus Tideman, Phd ...
    Series Book 2 - Shepheard Walwyn Classics
    With an updated introduction by Fred Harrison, Shepheard Walwyn has now published this classic book as an eBook.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 ... Read more

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  • The Essential Galbraith

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  • The Welfare State

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    by David Garland ...
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  • Ages of American Capitalism

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    by Jonathan Levy ...
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  • The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

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  • The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes

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