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Renegade Economist Press Conference

With property prices have dropped 23% in the UK over the last year and the UK verging on recession, what role do banks play in the quagmire? To think that Brown believes cutting property taxes will turn the UK property market around!

Fred has gone digital! He also has a new website, and a new blog with the title cheekily borrowed off our own Renegade Economists radio show. Interest in his work is really taking off, such that a regretful property developer has made a 2 part clip featuring Fred’s analysis of the 18 year cycle. It’s a must watch:

Leading Georgist author Fred Harrison was interviewed on the Renegade Economists last week regarding his new book The Silver Bullet.

Download his 16 minute interview covering issues such as Botswana’s success, a critique of Jeffery Sach’s Resource Curse theory and an overview of colonial motivations. Essential listening/ reading for those genuine in addressing the Millennium Development Goals.

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Hear the author Fred Harrison interviewed on the Renegade Economists tomorrow. Make sure you are podcasting us so you never miss the show.

Fred Harrison’s new book levels some very serious charges at the current leaders of the poverty industry.

The good intentions, the money, the rhetoric, the pity and the media histrionics are but a pinpricks to a world rampaging monster. They say there is no silver bullet.

It takes Harrison’s razor sharp pen few words to zero in on the limitations of Joseph Stiglitz, Naomi Klein and Jeffrey Sachs.

Economics is a damaged social science because its exponents fail to work with comprehensive models of the real world.

As our understanding of the Silver Bullet grows, so does respect for the level of investigative reporting in the very readable 179 pages. Insights to Zimbabwe’s plight, China’s growing elite and even the Kalahari Bushmen are viewed through the lens of land rights and the reform needed to encourage their ‘creative energy’. The reports Harrison unveils give us hope that academics are wary of rent seekers.
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Make sure you watch this 7 minute expose on the Tax Clawback scam. Some of you may recognise Ross Ashcroft from our Comics of Economics night earlier in the year. Check Earthsharing’s YouTube channel to keep in touch with Australia’s latest. We have a few goodies coming up soon too.

Leading Georgist author Fred Harrison was interviewed on 3CR’s Renegade Economists radio show on Wed Jan 30th. The discussion was so good we had to get it online.

Download it here (MP3, 16.54 min, 15.5 MB)

Fred systematically explains why the top 10% own 80% of the earth.

Check Fred’s books here, he’s writing up a storm.