{"product_id":"land-as-an-economic-factor-and-its-biblical-origins-9780595299812","title":"Land as an Economic Factor and Its Biblical Origins","description":"Our homage to freedom is a mockery, for the blinding glare of riches and power have made of democracy an illusion. The consequence is life without social and economic justice and a false view-we are chained to monetary acquisitiveness, group identities, and other limited perspectives. Power and influence coupled with technology, bureaucracy, and greed have masked accumulated wisdom-the bedrock of individual integrity. Even social injustice masked as property rights takes on a look of integrity, liberty, and prosperity.\u003cp\u003e At the root of our problems is the relation of man to the land and his mental and physical separation from it. The most endurable structure would be built upon the Fatherhood of God, which the ancient Hebrews perceived as requiring the sharing among the entire people of the divine gift of land. While land rent has been acknowledged to be socially created, a theft by private interests of natural resources that belong to mankind in common, is protected and exalted as the fruit of effort and a basis of personal rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe First Definitive History of Land Economics\u003c\/i\u003e stands in a tradition of social criticism that recognizes that land-rent income should be the tax base of the community and the means to eliminate poverty. The author hopes to do something towards overcoming a way of thinking that in the guise of defending property rights defends privilege in its robbery of Nature, labor, and life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780595299812\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.72d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kenneth C. Wenzer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51280568221877,"sku":"9780595299812","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_51bc419c-1333-4d33-9c77-28429cfd9dec.jpg?v=1751467857","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/land-as-an-economic-factor-and-its-biblical-origins-9780595299812","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}