Cheating: The Human Project and its Betrayal

Five thousand yearsago, humanity made a huge mistake. The income from shared land - economic rent- was seized by chiefs and priests rather than used for everyone’s benefit. Every unfair tax, every preventable death from poverty, and every financialcrash since can be traced back to that betrayal. Fred Harrison reveals the “culture of cheating” built intothe foundations of modern society: how mainstream economics removed the idea ofrent, and how taxing wages instead of land harms prosperity and shortens lives. With five major crises - political gridlock, environmental collapse, massmigration, authoritarianism, and uncontrolled AI - converging around 2028, hemakes an evidence-based case for replacing taxes on labour with Annual GroundRents and sharing rents between nations to resolve conflicts from Gaza to theclimate crisis. Economist Fred Harrison reveals how a 5,000-year-old fraud —the private capture of land rent — drives poverty, inequality, and boom-bustcycles. His solution: replace taxes with land value charges to share nature'swealth and heal a broken world.

ISBN-13: 9781916517219