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The Silver Bullet (Paperback)

by Fred Harrison (Author)
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  • Paperback: 220 pages
  • Publisher: theIU (8 April 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0904658104
  • ISBN-13: 978-0904658101
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 12.2 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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''The Silver Bullet is brilliant!'' --Dr Mason Gaffney, Professor of Economics, University of California

Fred Harrison emphasises that ''Government's taxes...are a covert way of redistributing income from the poor to the rich''. I needn't spell out here Harrison's explanation of how that works, but it is clear and it is important to understand it....Intelligent, active people [need] to give serious attention to the book's case. --James Robertson, co-founder of the New Economics Foundation (Land&Liberty 1221, Spring 2008)

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Face it. The world is no closer to consigning poverty to history. Why is there still poverty from whole countries of the poor South, to the back streets, slums and trailer parks of the rich West? The good intentions, the money, the rhetoric, the pity and the media histrionics are but pinpricks to a world-rampaging monster. They say there is no silver bullet. Neither Geldof or Bono, nor the United Nations, nor the vast assembled hosts of international aid and development agencies have the answer. Doesn t every citizen of the world have an equal right to the good life? With so much wealth in the world, why are so many of us so poor, when we could rid ourselves of this monster? And the fact is, there is only one way to kill poverty...
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5.0 out of 5 stars Let's really make poverty history, 26 May 2008
Titled "The Silver Bullet", Fred Harrison has written an excellent book that examines our failure to address poverty in all parts of the world including the "affluent" West.

Unlike many good books that only describe the problems of poverty - Fred Harrison goes much further - he clearly shows that there is a consistent underlying cause for poverty and that our current best efforts at charity, pity, aid, debt relief, banking reform and development policies ignore this cause and fail to provide an answer.

Fred Harrison turns much conventional thinking on its head and shows how this new approach ("The Silver Bullet") can be implemented in all societies and all economies now.

Equally relevant for countries and administrations in all continents, "The Silver Bullet" offers an elegant blend of economics working in harmony with social justice, equal opportunities and fairness, and thus provides the opportunity for every citizen on this planet to have a life free of poverty and free of the want of the basic necessities of life.

A MUST read for all of us who desire to "Make Poverty History".
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A better solution for global poverty , 1 Jan 2009
By C. E. Bazlinton (UK) - See all my reviews
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A tour de force. This book is a must-read for anyone trying to understand why global poverty is so enduring. Be warned though that it will probably generate a lot of frustration in readers because of the blindness of the target audience of global poverty campaigners who need to benefit from its incisive forensic insights. The index is excellent.

Harrison shows that the current neglect of key issues by such world famous advisers such as Jeffrey Sachs and Joseph Stiglitz, will prevent poverty being tackled with any sort of effectiveness. He shows their ignorance of a proper appreciation of how land and natural resources should be handled to benefit a nation. He also shows how Sachs, and Paul Collier with Anke Hoeffler (Oxford Univ) deduce the strange theory that a nation rich in land and natural resources will have problems in promoting democracy and poverty reduction. To cap it all, the bizarre term `resource curse' is being used to promulgate this abysmal theory. They propose that taxes for national investment in public services should be raised from incomes and capital rather than using some of the value of land and other natural resources for the self-funding of those facilities.

This is rank neo-colonialism. Western countries can now justify their exploitation with such ideas from such `experts', and extract the very wealth from needy countries that should be raising their citizens from poverty. Sadly the gurus continue to peddle their false theories despite, in the case of Sachs, having seen Bolivia fail to lift GDP per head even after 20 years of trialing his advice. What is being played out here is the old colonial idea of raising tax from people's work and creativity but leaving most of the ever-growing wealth of land and natural resources in the hands of elites.

Harrison's answer is that public goods such as schools and roads should be created by government and become self-funded from the rents of land in the nearby areas, as land become more desirable following the investment. What is wanted is good stewardship of the resources to benefit all, rather than to succumb to the fatalistic and extraordinary diagnosis of: `resource curse'.

To see a recent YouTube film by Harrison on Zimbabwe as to how that country has been dogged by these false theories, go to: Why Mugabe killed a nation: []
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Silver bullet, 20 Feb 2009
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One of the most interesting books about economics, excellent to understand what produce the poverty in the world, and easy to read.
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