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To overcome the economic aftermath of Covid-19 and empower people to "build back better", our world needs a new social paradigm. That model would need to launch humanity on to a moral growth path by enabling societies to survive the looming existential crises which, Fred Harrison reveals, will converge as a result of the peak in house prices in 2026. That paradigm exists, explains the author, in the form of a financial anti-dote to what economists call "rent seeking". In testing his thesis, the author discovered that the world's systemic crises originated in a single cause. Free riding is an anti-social form of behaviour that incubated the social, demographic and environmental threats to life on Earth. A single financial reform would deliver the synergy to simultaneously neutralise the cannibalistic phase into which free riding has consigned our world. It would do so by transforming governance to serve the common good. The author provides an enriched theory of evolution, which reveals the blueprint that would empower people to reframe behaviour and heal the damage inflicted on nature and society.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08RR8J14V
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Land Research Trust; 1st edition (4 Jan. 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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A very real solution

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 20 April 2022

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This is an excellent book. Everyone should read it. Society has been systematically betrayed by the very people that claim to represent it. And even the laws have been constructed to protect this "political model of cheating". Fred Harrison explains clearly, in exhaustive detail, the origins of this "crime against humanity" resulting in today's escalating poverty, exploitation, despair, mental illness, soaring prices and homelessness. Present day echoes of the feudal system of governance, clearances, poverty and slavery. His predictions of the boom/bust cycles of the economy that cause societal break down akin to the Great Depression, has proved spot on. Perhaps we should heed his warnings for 2026! There seems precious little hope in a privileged, entitled and self-serving government that has long reneged on its true purpose.
Fred offers a wonderfully complete solution called Annual Ground Rent, otherwise known as Land Value Tax, that would be a panacea for society, creating equality, secure homes even for those who rent, lower prices, an end to property speculation (no more evictions for profit), and a massive infusion of funds generated by a thriving social community into restoring public services such as the NHS, Education and Transport etc. A new hope for people, families and our children and grandchildren’s future. A restoration of what he refers to as the "Social Galaxy"! With all other taxes abolished, more money would be raised with Annual Ground Rent than all the present taxes put together.
This is an inspiring concept and a very real possibility. All we need is the courage to take the first steps. And Fred Harrison has shown us how. Book 2 is a must-read and I can't wait for Book 3. There is growing support for this new paradigm, and God know, society surely needs one!

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S. Thomas

An essential read if you want to know the root cause of the economic cancer infecting human society

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 13 May 2022

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This book is of critical importance to an understanding of the forces that really drive human society and the deep injustice at the heart of our economic life, which is hidden in plain sight and which we have all been coerced into perpetuating. Read it!

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Sotiris Papanikolaou

Fred is a great guy.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 20 March 2022

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The concept of Rent is a tricky one. Hard for most people to understand. I really enjoyed the book though.
My only problem with Fred and Georgists in general is that they see LVT as the solution to all problems under the sun. Now at least they try to give a narrative for their proposals (finally). Read it and I'm sure you will learn something new.

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Mrs Jane P Smith.

The very essence of truth seeking

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 14 July 2021

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Another brilliant book by Fred Harrison. It contains the answers society needs to solve the existential crises we face. If only people could wake up to the solutions to both social and environmental problems we would have hope in a deeply damaged world. Environmentalists peddle solutions to the nature and climate crises which are divorced from economic reality. It's about time they acknowledged the elephant in the room and argued for rent as public revenue, rather than meaningless rhetoric about nature recovery networks.

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Malcolm Lisle

The history of the world economic system

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Good history and analysis of how economics works. Some interesting ideas. Some good stories including the author's work with President Gorbachev.

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An eye opener

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 4 August 2021

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I would recommend every person to read this. Trying to find Book 2 if anyone can help!

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Robert W Charman

A must read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 4 March 2021

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A very thought provoking text. Can the electorate 'lift its heads' in time to demand more of our policy makers?

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Muse

Nigh perfect.

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I would have given it half a star less if it had not been comparably excellent.

Minus half a star would have been for the choice of title.
I'm one for less confusing word concepts.

He could have explained a number of things from the outset:

(a) What does he mean by "we are rent"?

(b) Why not also explain (to help clarify the aforesaid) that rent and tax are basically two words for the same thing

- in other words, from an holistic systems point of view, the payment of either/both (rent/tax) is basically contributing (giving back) to the commons that which is owed for benefiting from group participation of workers in/on the commons from which labour produces wealth (goods & services).

Simply put, Land + Labour = Wealth, and landlords (and banksters) are not labouring for the wealth.
They are getting tokens (money) for slices of wealth, which they have not earned by working in the creation of that wealth.

Rentiers (a word missing from the text) are basically getting the benefit from the location for group activities for which they (the rentiers) don't pay rent/tax.

Tenants are paying doubly (= money + lost wealth that could have been bought with money) to landlords:

(1) Money that is earned by the tenant for working (labouring) is paid to a landlord that just owns property in a beneficial location (- why else would the landlord be a landlord at that particular location?)

(2) The landlord has not worked for that money (- again, that is the reason he/she becomes a landlord). He/she gets the benefits of more free time and goodies for which he/she has not worked = the tenant has to work harder to get the same benefits.

Also, the tenant is having to pay rates (county/shire council tax) for which the landlord should be paying for owning the building.
(Most may argue the rates are fees payable for service to the tenant, yet those service fees are maintaining the location from which the landlord benefits from owning the property)

Moreover, something that is beyond money, and just as, if not more, important, is the fact that –
- tenants can be treated like servants (which is a consequence land capture by the landlord)
- and given less than due respect that would normally be given a customer paying ("rent?") for goods &/or services.

No Fault Evictions are a most common feature of this disrespect, the other being unrightful (illegal?) entry into the property without prior arrangement with the tenant (- I had goods stolen because of this).

One would have thought that rent entitles the tenant to the same privileges & rights the landlord would want for him-/herself.

Money is a token credit-energy-credit, and tenants are not getting the returns for the energy-credit (they expend in working) when giving those tokens to freeloaders (banksters included) for renting what should basically belong to the commons.

It is State-sanctioned theft, which one of many of the most massive scales of theft that can be known to mankind.

All as a result of State-capture by the land owning and financial elite.

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