The Books

All available as paperbacks (click hyperlink below)

Kindle editions and free downloadable PDF below.

Stewardship Economy 1: private property without private ownership is the first book and provides an overall summary of the main ideas.

Stewardship Economy 2: Valuing land and managing transition sets out in some detail how to establish the market rent of land and how to make the transition from an ownership to a stewardship economy. It also considers how the revenue from stewardship fees might be distributed.

Stewardship Economy 3: Land, environment and climate explores how a stewardship economy would transform the way we use land, provide housing and develop our cities. It goes on to consider how stewardship would help address pressing environmental and climate concerns.

Stewardship Economy 4: The economy, wealth and universal income focuses on the impact of stewardship on the national and global economy, how the distribution of wealth would be changed and the impact of a Universal Income.

Stewardship Economy 5: efficient, fair taxes and the role of the state describes the some of the adverse effects of our current system of taxation and considers the role of the state in a stewardship economy. It also explains some basic economic principles and terms.

Stewardship Economy 6: property rights describes the systems of property rights in our current economic system, their history and how property rights could be more fair and efficient in a stewardship economy.

Stewardship Economy 7: some economics explained and bibliography. This book provides an introduction to some key economic concepts for the non-specialist and lists the references for all the books, as far as they are available.

Julian Pratt authored a paper on the reform of business rates, Supporting Local Economies: from Business Rates to Land Value Taxation (2014)

He also republished two papers by Thomas Paine that had influenced his thinking:

Agrarian Justice (written in 1797)