Profit

Public Private Partnerships: A formula for excess profits and failure

Author / Creator: Jim Cuthbert

Media type: Policy Paper

Date published: April 2018

PFI is well known to be a very problematic concept. They involve extremely high rates of return for investors, but an unacceptable rate of failure in other schemes. These  characteristics are inherent in the way PFI/PPP has been set up.


Investment in Scotland: A Common Weal Approach

Author / Creator: Iain Cairns

Media type: Policy Paper

Date published: Septtember 2014

The UK’s growth has declined every decade since the deregulation and privatisation began in the 1980s. Private finance provides poor value for money.  The financial system in the UK  is not capable of delivering the kinds of economic and social outcomes people have a right to demand. Investment is what the UK lacks, not money.