G Miller. The Policy Press, 2000. (Pp 470; no price stated). ISBN 1-86134-221-7

• Miller G. On fairness and efficiency. The privatisation of the public income over the past millennium

Starting out from the economic hypothesis advanced by Henry George in the 1880s—that is, the distorted balance between land, capital and labour, or rent, benefit and wages, this book seeks to explain all the contradictory features of the welfare capitalism period. The author places himself within a long tradition of “political medicine” that contributes to our understanding of society from the rationality of health. The issue tackled is: …