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Published on 29th March 2012
Wealth without Cost Volume 2 by Barry Bracewell-Milnes
Barry Bracewell-Milnes
Economics was originally about agriculture. Manufacturing was added in the eighteenth century, services in the nineteenth. Volume 1 adds to these three branches of economics, the creation of economic value without the use of costly inputs. The costless inputs that create costless wealth are scarce but cannot be purchased; examples are loyalty, saving in perpetuity, giving, proprietary appropriation, stewardship, altruism and freedom. The new Volume Two extends the argument to religion and the arts.
"Ought to be available in the library of every institution which teaches economics." Professor Antony Flew
Volume 2 Hardback 360pp: ISBN 9780956071699
Barry Bracewell-Milnes
Economics was originally about agriculture. Manufacturing was added in the eighteenth century, services in the nineteenth. Volume 1 adds to these three branches of economics, the creation of economic value without the use of costly inputs. The costless inputs that create costless wealth are scarce but cannot be purchased; examples are loyalty, saving in perpetuity, giving, proprietary appropriation, stewardship, altruism and freedom. The new Volume Two extends the argument to religion and the arts.
"Ought to be available in the library of every institution which teaches economics." Professor Antony Flew
Volume 2 Hardback 360pp: ISBN 9780956071699
Apocalypse Calypso: Poems by Graham Roos
Graham Roos
Apocalypse Calypso began life as an epic poem and verse show, first appearing at King’s Place in conjunction with The Guardian, The Royal Opera House and London Sinfonietta, starring Dame Janet Suzman, Fenella Fielding and the author. The show was written especially with the banking crisis and political corruption in mind, using only poetry. Acclaimed writer-performer Graham Roos has since developed this work into a collection of poems and offers here a powerful and relevant new work which is ready for a wider audience.
ISBN: 9781908684042
Pub Date: 26th April 2012
Price: £10.00
"Graham Roos has a way with words; his poetry is vivid, catchy and thought-provoking. He leads the generation of young troubadours responding with verve to the world we have dumped on them"
Janet Suzman
"An original, inspirational writer, poet and performer, and a wizard when he wants to be, Graham Roos is a master of the unexpected, his work possessing a rare, visceral energy that tends to get into your veins. Buy him, devour him, beg your friends to do the same. Then bask in the glory of their gratitude. This man is destined for greatness.
Julie Alpine - journalist and writer
Escape from Leviathan by Jan Lester
Jan Lester
The First Paperback publication.
The most relevant and plausible conceptions of economic rationality, interpersonal liberty, human welfare, and private-property anarchy do not conflict in theory or practice. Using philosophy and social science, Escape from Leviathan defends this bold, non-normative, thesis from contrary positions in the scholarly literature. Writers considered include David Friedman, John Gray, R. M. Hare, Robert Nozick, Karl Popper, John Rawls, Murray Rothbard, Alan Ryan, Amartya Sen, and Bernard Williams.
The rationality assumptions of neoclassical and Austrian School economics are reconciled and related to liberty and welfare. A new pre-propertarian theory of interpersonal liberty as the ‘absence of (initiated or proactively) imposed cost’ is argued to be libertarian. Human welfare is defended as the satisfaction of unimposed wants. Practical anarchy is simply unconstrained private property. Related topics include free will, weakness of will, the nature of moralizing, intellectual property, and restitution and retribution. Critical-rationalist epistemology (theories can only be criticized and tested, not justified or supported) is applied throughout. This is a ground-breaking work that is also an excellent introduction to libertarianism and social thought.
ISBN: 9781908684080
Publication date: 5th May 2012
Graham Roos
Apocalypse Calypso began life as an epic poem and verse show, first appearing at King’s Place in conjunction with The Guardian, The Royal Opera House and London Sinfonietta, starring Dame Janet Suzman, Fenella Fielding and the author. The show was written especially with the banking crisis and political corruption in mind, using only poetry. Acclaimed writer-performer Graham Roos has since developed this work into a collection of poems and offers here a powerful and relevant new work which is ready for a wider audience.
ISBN: 9781908684042
Pub Date: 26th April 2012
Price: £10.00
"Graham Roos has a way with words; his poetry is vivid, catchy and thought-provoking. He leads the generation of young troubadours responding with verve to the world we have dumped on them"
Janet Suzman
"An original, inspirational writer, poet and performer, and a wizard when he wants to be, Graham Roos is a master of the unexpected, his work possessing a rare, visceral energy that tends to get into your veins. Buy him, devour him, beg your friends to do the same. Then bask in the glory of their gratitude. This man is destined for greatness.
Julie Alpine - journalist and writer
Jan Lester
The First Paperback publication.
The most relevant and plausible conceptions of economic rationality, interpersonal liberty, human welfare, and private-property anarchy do not conflict in theory or practice. Using philosophy and social science, Escape from Leviathan defends this bold, non-normative, thesis from contrary positions in the scholarly literature. Writers considered include David Friedman, John Gray, R. M. Hare, Robert Nozick, Karl Popper, John Rawls, Murray Rothbard, Alan Ryan, Amartya Sen, and Bernard Williams.
The rationality assumptions of neoclassical and Austrian School economics are reconciled and related to liberty and welfare. A new pre-propertarian theory of interpersonal liberty as the ‘absence of (initiated or proactively) imposed cost’ is argued to be libertarian. Human welfare is defended as the satisfaction of unimposed wants. Practical anarchy is simply unconstrained private property. Related topics include free will, weakness of will, the nature of moralizing, intellectual property, and restitution and retribution. Critical-rationalist epistemology (theories can only be criticized and tested, not justified or supported) is applied throughout. This is a ground-breaking work that is also an excellent introduction to libertarianism and social thought.
ISBN: 9781908684080
Publication date: 5th May 2012
Recently Published
Tragedy of Riches by Stephen Barber
The book describes how our single minded pursuit of prosperity has constrained politics from being a force for good. Our comfortable bubble of economic prosperity separates us from the poverty of the recent past as well as from the poorest parts of the world today. We have never been richer or more deeply immersed in materialism and consumption. And as the great response to the global financial crisis demonstrates, with its banking bail out and massive fiscal stimulus, the economic power of the Western world is profound.
Why is it then, in the rich second decade of the twenty-first century, that we do not live in some sort of advanced paradise?
ISBN 9780956395238
