Hijacked Inheritance - the Triumph of Dollar Darwinism?

by Philip Day

In Brief :
192 pages, 135 mm x 210 mm, Soft cover, Section sewn
Current affairs commentary.
(ISBN 1 876344 41 5)

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Overview:
Hijacked Inheritance is an angry expression of concern at the decline of mateship and community and the pervasive greed, self interest and inequality of wealth and influence in our increasingly violent society. Dr Phil Day, a lawyer, town planner and respected public administrator and academic, challenges the mindless consumption of the planet?s resources in the frenetic pursuit of development and economic efficiency regardless of the social and environmental consequences. Hijacked Inheritance compares the public revenue potential of charges upon the consumption of natural resources with the punitive taxation of labour and capital and the production of goods and services. It exposes the enormous revenue forgone through the private appropriation of the unearned increment in community land values. Challenging a seemingly immutable mindset, it asserts that the sanctity still associated with land and land-owning derives from nothing more noble or pre-ordained than the fact that in the later Middle Ages, following the erosion of feudal obligations, Anglo-Australian culture was shaped by parliaments dominated by baronial land-owners, elected by land-owners. For a nation pausing uncertainly in the aftermath of a divisive election, this is an important book whose Australian message deserves to be spread throughout western society.

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