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In the two and a half years since the first edition appeared (April 2005), events have unfolded as predicted. Then the consensus among forecasters was that the boom in house prices would cool to an annual 2 or 3% rise over the following years. In fact, in keeping with the 'winner's curse' phase of the cycle described by the author, prices rose by more than 10% per annum in Britain.
Harrison's first book, The Power in the Land, predicted the early 1990s recession. Boom Bust, warned that investing in property is not always a safe bet, because the housing market is subject to a sharp downturn at the end of a remarkably regular 18-year cycle. The crash of 2007/8 occurred exactly as predicted. His forecast was based on a careful study of the evidence from property markets in many countries over the last 200 years. Gordon Brown's claim, last made in his 2007 Budget speech, that 'we will never return to the old boom and bust' has been proved false.
The reason for the instability, Harrison explains, is not the housing market itself but the land market on which all buildings stand. Land is in fixed supply ' as Mark Twain noted: 'They're not making any more of it'. Therefore, as the demand for land for new homes and offices rises with population growth and economic expansion, market forces, which normally increase supply to reduce prices, have the reverse effect: prices rise. This encourages speculation, with banks lending more against escalating asset values and reinforcing the upward spiral.
Under existing government policies, the only way land prices can be brought back to affordable levels is a slump, undermining the banking system and causing widespread unemployment and repossessions. This is exactly what happened in America with the collapse of the sub-prime mortgage market. The run on Northern Rock showed the UK economy is not immune.
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GenreBusiness and Economics
Length6 hrs 42 mins
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Publish dateAug 8, 2012
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Table of contents
1The Predator Culture
2© 2010 Fred Harrison
3Prologue The Failed State
44 Lawrence and Karim (2007: 7).
5THE FAILED STATE
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6THE PREDATOR CULTURE
7Part 1 A General Theory of Violence
8Chapter 1 The Spatial Dynamics of Evolution
9THE PREDATOR CULTURE
10Figure 1:1 Structural Dynamics of the Social Universe
11THE PREDATOR CULTURE
12THE SPATIAL DYNAMICS OF EVOLUTION
13Chapter 2 The Culture of Pauperisation
14The Pathology of Rent Privatisation
151 Social Formations
162 The Predators
173 The Excluded
18THE CULTURE OF PAUPERISATION
196 Greenwood and Stini (1977: 147).
207 Harrison (2005).
21THE CULTURE OF PAUPERISATION
229 Harrison (1986).
23Chapter 3 The Socio-Ecology of Peace: Costa Rica
24Figure 3:1 Metrics of the Failed State
25Nicaragua 92 100 49 21
26Source: Garnier et al (1997: 357, Table 12:2).
27Source: Villanueva (1969: 67).
28THE PREDATOR CULTURE
29THE SOCIO-ECOLOGY OF PEACE: COSTA RICA
30Part 2 The Social Pathology of Land Grabs
31THE PREDATOR CULTURE
32COLONIALISM & THE CORRUPTION OF PEOPLE POWER 45
33COLONIALISM & THE CORRUPTION OF PEOPLE POWER 47
34COLONIALISM & THE CORRUPTION OF PEOPLE POWER 49
35COLONIALISM & THE CORRUPTION OF PEOPLE POWER 51
3615 Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarification (2007), cited in Taylor (2009: 5-6).
37COLONIALISM & THE CORRUPTION OF PEOPLE POWER 53
38THE PREDATOR CULTURE
39Table 4:1 Global Inequality (1820-1992)
40Chapter 5 The Pathology of Re-ordered Space
41THE PREDATOR CULTURE
42THE PATHOLOGY OF RE-ORDERED SPACE
43Images of Humanity
44THE PATHOLOGY OF RE-ORDERED SPACE
45Chapter 6 Genocide & the Concentration Camp
46GENOCIDE & THE CONCENTRATION CAMP
47Equal to: %
4812 Lemarchand (1970).
49GENOCIDE & THE CONCENTRATION CAMP
50THE PREDATOR CULTURE
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