Currency
Building a New Scotland: A stronger economy with independence
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Report
Date published:
Scottish Government proposals for the economy of an independent Scotland.
The Road to the Scottish Currency
Author / Creator: Scottish Currency Group
Media type: Book
Date published: 2022
Q & A on the Scottish Currency
A Better Nation: The Challenges of Scottish Independence: The Challenge of Scottish Independence
Author / Creator: Simon Barrow
Media type: Book
Date published: 2022
Drawing on a range of original thinkers from a wide range of backgrounds, the book tackles key issues about money, culture, equality, energy, borders, jobs, Europe and other ‘big questions’ head on.
Building a New Scotland –an Outline
Author / Creator: Jim Osborne
Media type: Discussion Paper
Date published: 2020
Jim Osborne's view of what an independent Scotland might look like in government and the economic policies.
Soft Currency Economics II (MMT – Modern Monetary Theory
Author / Creator: Warren Mosler
Media type: Book
Date published: 1993
- what is money;
- why debt monetization and the money multiplier are myths;
- how fiscal and monetary policy can be used effectuate full employment;
- deficits do not cause countries to default on their debt unless that is the decision.
What Scotland can learn from Irish independence: it won’t control interest rates and inequality will widen
Author / Creator: Eoin McLaughlin
Media type: Article
Date published: 2022
Managing the transition [to independence] won’t be straightforward. Ireland’s experience shows that the need for fiscal discipline may be politically costly and adjustment may not be shared equally.
Would an independent Scotland have to use the Euro?
Author / Creator: Believe in Scotland
Date published:
‘No. Scotland would not have to use the Euro.’
Busting the old Unionist anti-indy myths. Open minds on Scottish independence #19
Author / Creator: Believe in Scotland
Media type: News Media
Date published:
This article looks at three myths about Scottish independence:
Myth 4: Business leaders are worried about the effects of independence.
Myth 5: A new Scottish currency would be difficult to establish
Myth 6: independence would threaten pensions
The SNP must rethink its economic model for an independent Scotland
Author / Creator: Laurie Macfarlane
Media type: Assessment report
Date published:
A critique of the Growth Commission's report. "Far from being an asset to the independence cause, the Growth Commission is its biggest liability. It’s time, as we say, ‘tae think again’."
Setting up a Scottish Banking System
Author / Creator: Peter Ryan
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2020
A Scottish central bank will need to be set up to oversee the creation of a new Scottish currency. It will be the competent authority providing regulatory oversight of the banking system.
The SNP must rethink its economic model for an independent Scotland
Author / Creator: Laurie Macfarlane
Media type: Assessment report
Date published:
Scotland can become a successful independent nation. But that plan needs to come from the 2020s. And it needs to come from a broad cross section of civil society, not just business groups. Far from being an asset to the independence cause, the Growth Commission is its biggest liability. It’s time, as we say, ‘tae think again’.
Would an independent Scotland have to keep the pound and cut public spending?
Author / Creator: Joël Reland
Media type: Fact check
Date published:
Public spending in an independent Scotland could continue to grow. This does depend on sufficient growth in the economy after independence.
Scottish Sovereignty Research Group
Author / Creator: Scottish Sovereignty Research Group
Media type: Web site
Date published: 2020 -
The objectives of the Scottish Sovereignty Research Group:
- Research means to become independent which will be legally recognized other than through a Westminster sanctioned referendum
- Continue to develop a written constitution.
- Hold a broad survey among Scots to determine what kind of country they would like to see
Scottish Currency Group
Author / Creator: Tim Rideout
Media type: Facebook group
Date published:
People working towards the introduction of a Scottish Currency 'as soon as practicable' after Independence Day. A Facebook group.
Scottish Reserve Bank
Author / Creator: Tim Rideout
Media type: Blog
Date published:
The Scottish Reserve Bank website attempts to clear up many of the deliberate myths surrounding the establishment of a new Scottish currency
Let’s get Scotland’s banking right
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Video 2:09 minutes
Date published: 2020
Banking has lost its way, forgetting that it should be serving its customers and not exploiting them. But a mutually-owned People’s Bank can change this.
Video: 2:09 minutes
Response to latest [2020/1] Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) estimates
Author / Creator: David Phillips
Media type: Assessment report
Date published:
The large debts shown by the 2020/1 GERS are temporary and not structural. They do not indicate that Scotland cannot afford to be inedpendent.
How to make a Currency: A Practical Guide
Author / Creator: Peter Ryan
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2016?
This is the most detailed and authoritative paper yet produced on how to introduce a Scottish currency in the event of independence.
Claiming Scotland’s Assets: A discussion paper on the division of assets and debts to an independent Scotland
Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: September 2016
The “zero option” approach to UK debt whereby the rUK is allowed to maintain its claim as the continuing state to the former UK and to adopt all mobile assets and liabilities is the appropriate stance.
Economic Implications for the United Kingdom of Scottish Independence
Author / Creator: House of Lords
Media type: Assessment report
Date published: 2013
The House of Lords assessment of the economic implications of independence before the 2014 referendum.