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The Importance of Nation
by Jim and Margaret Cuthbert This extract from The Importance of Nation by Jim and Margaret Cuthbert is published over at Scottish Left Review (go here for the full article). Continue reading →
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Enlisting Government to the Common Weal
By Jim and Margaret Cuthbert This contribution to the set of articles on the Jimmy Reid Foundation theme of the Common Weal deals with the economy. In particular, with the Continue reading →
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A New Economics for a New Scotland
This is a debate you rarely hear in the independence movement and it’s an essential one. All else is fluff Continue reading →
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Dark Star Economics
By Jamie Maxwell Well, thank god that’s over. According to Olivier Blanchard, the IMF’s chief economist, the British economy is now clear of its longest and most severe crisis since the 1930s and can...
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Inequality and the 1%: What Scotland might not miss about England
Danny Dorling’s Edinburgh lecture has been largely avoided by the mainstream media, here’s why. Dorling is one of the most respected academics in Britain on poverty, economics and social policy. He’s...
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The Non-Economics of Desperate Dave
By Dan Gay David Cameron today again repeated the nonsense claim that anything other than swingeing cuts will cause “economic chaos”. In an indication of just how impoverished mainstream British...
View ArticleTrickle Down Sustainability – the challenges of substantial energy reform
In this piece Magnus Jamieson takes a comprehensive look at fundamental challenges of revolutionising energy policy at a time of gesture, stalemate and lack of imagination. “I have wanted to kill...
View ArticleLessons in Proving that Change is Necessary
In the event of Independence how are we to reconcile the remaining unionists to the new political reality? I shall here assume unionists to be by and large moderate conservatives and third way social...
View ArticleFinancial Investments as if People and Planet Really Mattered
Ethics and finance may not be words you hear in the same sentence often, but Pauline Hinchion explores how Scotland is leading the way. She asks: looking to the future, what might a wellbeing economy...
View ArticleWhat a Wellbeing Economy Looks Like
Tentative and not fully-formed, but the First Minister here outlines what a wellbeing economy would look like as we stagger towards the enormity of climate crisis and the brutal reality that it is us,...
View Article“How would an independent Scotland pay for it?”
Cameron Archibald cuts through the propaganda and ‘love-bombing’ that’s landing in your feeds and your timelines as the “UK Gov Scotland” raises the Unionist game to undermine the prospects of an...
View ArticleThe Economics of Coronavirus
Rory Scothorne looks at how economic measures which were recently thought of as radical outliers, are now at the heart of responses to the crisis. The effect of coronavirus on the British political...
View ArticleThe Economics of the Pandemic
Iain Macwhirter’s Herald column on Sunday [Coronavirus: this crisis could bring a Great Depression, not socialism] makes a number of well considered points about the vulnerability of the Scottish...
View ArticleJeremiah Wilson and the Scottish Economy in Lockdown
WHAT’S the state of the Scottish economy three months into lockdown? We got new hard data this week from the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the evil Department of Work and Pensions (DWP),...
View ArticleScotland’s Problem: Low Taxes
IS there anything new to say about the latest GERS figures? Perhaps. According to GERS, the nominal Scottish tax income was 65.9 billion, including North Sea oil revenues. That works out at 37.4% of...
View ArticleEconomics of the Climate Crisis
“If the pandemic is a dress rehearsal for the climate crisis then the human race has failed the audition” – Steve Keen. Interview with Steve Keen, Australian economist and author. He considers himself...
View ArticleLiberating Sovereignty
Leading economist David McWilliams is in interview live tonight on Scotonomics. His work has been important in understanding the dynamics of the economic failure of the British economy and its impact...
View ArticleAfter the Holiday from Reality – you have to go home
James Cleverly, the Conservative Education Secretary has acknowledged the Conservative leadership campaign has gone on far too long. This late acknowledgement is only offered because the Party...
View ArticleThe Crisis of Growth and Capital
Something important has changed. The last two IPCC reports are significant in that they have identified the economy as the problem, not the solution. Faced with this harsh truth the ruling elites,...
View ArticleScotland’s Currency Dilemma
In the aftermath of Humza Yousaf’s latest speech William Thomson of Scotonomics argues that “the economic framework underpinning Scottish independence is dangerously misguided and likely to lead to a...
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