How Our Economy Really Works

Much of the argument about major issues, like industrial policy, the distribution of wealth and income and government policy reverts to a polarised struggle between labour and capital. The third factor, land, hides in the background unacknowledged yet exerting a major influence on the outcome of the whole economic process.

Brian Hodgkinson qualified as a chartered accountant, then won a scholarship to Oxford where he took a first in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He has taught both Philosophy and Economics. As the founder editor of British Economy Survey, he kept in touch with applied economics and questions of public policy.