Ricardo's Law: House Prices And The Great Tax Clawback Scam电子书

Fred Harrison’s

Title Page

Copyright Page

Epigraph

Prologue - Civil War by Other Means

Four Indictments

Part I - THE TAX STATE

1 - The Tax Clawback Scam

1.1 Fifteen Million Victims

1.2 Stealthily Does It

1:3 Bonanza for the Asset Rich

1.4 What’s Going on Here?

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2 - Ricardo’s Law

2.1 The Theory of Rent

2.2 The Price of Civilisation

2:3 The Domesday Book

2.4 The Riches of Babylon

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3 - Living on the Edge

3.1 The Margin as Place

3.2 The Margin as Political War Zone

3.3 The Margin as State of Mind

3.4 Zone Beyond the Margin

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4 - Governance as a Science

4.1 The Nature of Society

4.2 Free Riders

4.3 The First Law of Social Dynamics

4.4 The Roman Road to Wallsend

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Part II - ANATOMY OF A DISUNITED KINGDOM

5 - Pulling Power

5.1 Dick Whittington’s Streets of Gold

5.2 The Doctrine of ‘Agglomeration’

5.3 Capital Gains

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6 - Castles in the Air

6.1 Location, Location, Location

6.2 A Capital Conundrum

6.3 A Head Start in Life

6.4 The Disunited Kingdom (2): Community

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7 - To CAP it All

7.1 People of the Commons

7.2 The Lord was No Protector

7.3 Farming the Taxpayers

7.4 The Disunited Kingdom (3): Democracy

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8 - The Economics of Life and Death

8.1 Mortality and the System

8.2 The Clues in Cancer

8.3 Poverty of Place

8.4 The Disunited Kingdom (4): Health

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9 - Brave New World

9.1 A Demolition Job

9.2 The Chocolate King

9.3 Railroading the Kingdom

9.4 Disunited Kingdom (5): Shelter

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10 - The Constituents of Tony Blair’s Mind

10.1 Formation of the English

10.2 The Aristocratic Double-take

10.3 Tony Blair’s Magic Mantra

10.4 Disunited Kingdom (6): The Class Divided

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Part III - BARBARIANS WITHIN

11 - Beyond Hadrian’s Wall

11.1 Cometh the Barbarians

11.2 Betrayal of the Lairds

11.3 Failure of the Social Immune System

11.4 On Social Solidarity

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12 - America’s Constitution of Unhappiness

12.1 Beyond the Land of the Free

12.2 Where’s the Levy on the Levee?

12.3 The Anglo-American Model Challenged

12.4 Happiness: a Constitutional Right?

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13 - The Dis-abling State

13.1 The Aristocratic Coup

13.2 Divide and Rule

13.3 Of Leakages and Losses

13.4 Whose Money is it Anyway?

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Part IV - THE NEW FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE

14 - The Economics of Equality

14.1 The Measure of Justice

14.2 Blame It on the Market

14.3 Conflating Land with Capital

14.4 The Failures of Governance

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15 - First Law of Social Dynamics

15.1 The Philosophy of Prices

15.2 Testing the Hypothesis

15.3 The Counter-cyclical Policy

15.4 Unpicking the Tax State

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16 - The New Mercantilism

16.1 Fool’s Gold

16.2 The Finance Merchants

16.3 Democracy’s Trap

16.4 Not How Much, but How

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The Judgement

Epilogue - A Personal Word

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Acknowledgements

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