"Gaffney's contribution is both timely and interesting."
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE

"Gaffney shows how the philosophy of Henry George was deflected so as to protect the landed establishment from an intellectual assault which was more accurate than Marxist critical analysis."
PEACE MAGAZINE

The mystery of persistent economic failure is explained. The authors accuse the founders of neo-classical economics - the paradigm taught in schools and universities - of distorting the science to protect vested interests and to prevent governments from adopting policies that would permit sustainable growth and an equitable distribution of wealth.