Fred Harrison is Research Director of the London-based Land Research Trust. He is a graduate of University College, Oxford, where he read Politics, Philosophy & Economics. He also studied for the MSc at Birkbeck College, London (1973-74).

His first book, published in 1983, The Power in the Land, introduced his concept of the eighteen year business cycle based on land value fluctuations.

His activities revolve around three core campaigns:

Truth in Politics

Fred campaigns for honesty in politics. In his forthcoming book, The Renegade Economist, he exposes the myths and falsehoods espoused by “experts” who claim to represent the people and the truth.

Truth in Economics

Fred was the only economist to predict the economic crisis of 1992 and the global financial crisis of 2007 – 10 years before they happened.

In 1983, in The Power in the Land, he warned that the global turmoil of 1974 would be followed by the crisis of 1992.

And in 1997, in The Chaos Makers, he warned:

“By 2007 Britain and most of the other industrially advanced economies will be in the throes of frenzied activity in the land market…Land prices will be near their 18-year peak… on the verge of the collapse that will presage the global depression of 2010.

The two events will not be coincidental: the peak in land prices not merely signalling the looming recession, but being the primary cause of it.”

Truth in Human Rights

The United Nations champions human rights, but in The Silver Bullet, Fred warns that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is fatally flawed. The clause missing from the Declaration renders the majority vulnerable to the whims of the privileged élites that dominate society. A petition has been launched to amend the Declaration of Human Rights and to restore our right to a share in Earth and our duty to compensate the community for what we take.