Industrial policy
This graph should be a rocket up the independence movement's backside
Author / Creator: Robin McAlpine
Media type: Article
Date published: 2025
Scotland’s position should shock you.
We are almost exactly as wealthy as the eurozone countries but we’re exporting wealth at twice the rate of even the most indebted poor countries.
Swinney must move beyond old orthodoxies
Author / Creator: Laurie Macfarlane
Media type: Article
Date published:
John Swinney, Scotland’s new first minister, faces no shortage of challenges. Lurking behind many of them lies a common cause: an economy that is not working.
Towards an industrial policy for Scotland: A discussion of principles and approaches
Author / Creator: Iain Cairns
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: March 2016
A mutual, sectoral model of industrial development rejects both ‘top down planning’ and ‘free market’ approaches. The form an economy takes is inevitably the result of political decision-making. Democracy must therefore extend to the economic sphere.