Customer Reviews
Ground breaking - By: C. E. Bazlinton, 14 Feb 2007 
Occasionally you come across a book that shows you how to look at familiar thingsin a new way. The blurry confusion of some aspects of modern life suddenly come into a clear focus. Ricardo's Law is such a book. It explains why the gap between rich & poor does not seem to shrink despite a booming economy & high tax bills to pay for welfare. It shows why certain parts of the UK have always been poorer & gives an historical understanding of why this has happened & what needs to be done to change it. It uses international research, it is right up to datein terms of government policy & it uses established economic ideas. It is easily understandable & very readable, but having said that your presuppositions will probably be challenged throughout. If you understand what it is saying, you will read the news & current affairsin a quite different way from then on.
Will we leave a much fairer society to our children & grandchildren? Having read this book you will see how it might be done.
Reviewed by Charles Bazlinton author: The Free Lunch - Fairness with Freedom
Why Tony Blair's 'Third Way' failed - By: Bryan Kavanagh, 05 Jan 2007 If you have a disquieting feeling that something has gone radically awry with the governance of modern western society but can't quite put your finger on it, let me recommend this new book by Fred Harrison who emerges from its pages as a 21st century seer to fill a vast voidin economic analysis.
Harrison's magnificent "Ricardo's Law, House Prices & the Great Tax Clawback Scam" pieces the evidence together to show how Tony Blair's Prime Ministership of the UK has failed the spatial dimension of good government. He takes us on an extraordinary journey from the centre of London northwards up the ancient Roman road through Lincoln & onwards to Hadrian's Wall. Amongst other compelling analyses along the route, he demonstrates how,in keeping with Ricardo's Law, wealth, house prices & the very length of life itself all decline through England's nine statistical divisions as we proceed northwards towards Hadrian's Wall & beyond, into Scotland.
Harrison demonstrates that although the real estate industry acknowledges "location, location, location", the failure of the Blair & other western governments to do so acts to handicap wealth creation & to marginalise those outside our major cities, & indeed, many people within them.
Harrison's case is incontrovertible. The book is a political breakthrough insofar as it shows that any politician claiming to represent the people simply cannot do so without an understanding of Ricardo's Law.
