Month: December 2018

Allowing land speculation is what makes homes unaffordable. It’s a choice. One much favoured by those keen to continue extracting socially produced wealth at the expense of those who do not own sites. For Christ’s

Even with limited devolved tax varying powers Holyrood could add £100bn to Scotland’s GDP by 2030. Sadly, without reform we’ll be lucky to see an increase of £20bn. AGR/LVT please.

peoplesbudget2.web The distortions affecting society and the economy from Wednesday’s Scottish budget are considerable and avoidable. What is the public pricing mechanism that would render budgetary expenditures self-funding, so that the money does not have

Economist Fred Harrison and SLRG propose a better measure than GDP, which is rightly derided on all sides as a poor measuring tool for economic health.

SLRG’s Professor Roger Sandilands’ presentation on AGR/LVT to Scottish Government employees on 19 October went well. Here is Professor Sandilands’s 29-slide Powerpoint presentation. Edinburgh powerpoint presentation (r), Oct 2018 70 Scot Gov economists and other employees

Are people killed being by misguided tax policies in 21st century Britain? Explaining premature deaths by zone has been the subject of a lifetime of study by economist Fred Harrison www.sharetherents.org. For example, if you

The first of a new regular series of AGR commentaries from economist Fred Harrison of the Land Research Trust, designed by SLRG’s Ian Kirkwood, in which the interests of the peoples of the British Isles