Economy
Building a New Scotland: A stronger economy with independence
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
The Scottish Government’s proposals for the economy of an independent Scotland.
State of the economy: October 2022
Author / Creator: Chief Economist
Media type: Report
Date published:
Recent developments in the global and Scottish economy and an analysis of the performance of, and outlook for, the Scottish economy.
The Cost of Living Crisis in Scotland: analytical report
Author / Creator: APS Group Scotland
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
The cost of living crisis presents serious economic and social challenges for the least well off.
Why is GERS C.R.A.P?
Author / Creator: Richard Murphy
Media type: Video
Date published: 2020
GERS is founded on a number of questionable bases.
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.
Fantasy economics: alive and well on both sides of the border
Author / Creator: John McLaren
Media type: Opinion
Date published: 2022
In Scotland, very little economic scrutiny takes place and so poor policy continues to bumble along.
The Myths of Perpetual Growth
Author / Creator: James Mackenzie
Media type: Opinion
Date published: 2022
Growth is front and centre in the Tory Party’s ongoing meltdown
Why we need cosmological limits to growth
Author / Creator: Mike Small
Media type: Opinion
Date published: 2022
We can see that changes to our consumption, production, and working patterns alone won’t be enough to sustain a profound transformation towards a just and sustainable world.
Scotland the Brief
Author / Creator: Business for Scotland
Media type: book
Date published: 2021
Scotland the Brief summarises an in-depth investigation into the breadth, structure and quality of Scotland’s economy.
Scotland's Oil
Author / Creator: John Jappy
Media type: Video
Date published: 2014
Revelation of the amount of oil revenue taken by the UK Government
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.
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better Economy
Author / Creator: Stephanie Kelton
Date published: 2020
'Kelton has succeeded in instigating a round of heretical questioning, essential for a post-Covid-19 world, where the pantheon of economic gods will have to be reconfigured' Guardian'
Putting citizens at the centre of Scotland’s economic policies
Author / Creator: Jim Byrne
Media type: Blog
Date published: 2022
A call for a new model to derive economic polices. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a practical-based model that looks after the welfare of a nation's citizens.
LESS – A Journal of Degrowth in Scotland
Author / Creator: LESS Editorial Collective
Media type: Journal
Date published: 2020 -
LESS, a journal on degrowth, radical sufficiency and decolonisation in Scotland.
LESS questions and challenges dominant narratives about what economic progress means in Scotland, and sketches out alternative visions. The focus is on collective and democratic solutions to sustaining livelihoods that meet people’s needs while rising to the threats of climate change, ecocide and mass extinction, inequality, racism and the far right, and the interconnected oppressive and extractivist logic and mechanisms that feed all of those.
TRUE PROSPERITY AND NEW METABOLISMS
Author / Creator: Mike Small
Media type: Discussion Paper
Date published: 2022
This is an outline of how we might situate degrowth in a history of alternative economics and regenerative movements, in the context of brutal new scientific and socio-economic realities. What does ‘true prosperity’ look like in times of socio-ecological crisis?
Watch: Our Scotland, our future
Author / Creator: Centre on Constitutional Change
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
What are young people in Scotland's views, hopes, and fears about Brexit and Scottish independence? We invited young people across Scotland to fill in a survey - here's what they had to say, including how they feel they can be included in discussions on constitutional change.
UK’s Failure to Recover from the Financial Crisis
Author / Creator: Bottom Line
Media type: Analysis
Date published: 2022
The UK has been one of the poorest performing economies since the financial crisis. The economic shock of the financial crisis was greater than most other advanced economies and the UK took longer to recover and even before Covid-19 was considerably smaller than it would have been had it matched the recovery achieved by others.
Long Term Performance of UK Economy and Small Countries
Author / Creator: Bottom Line
Media type: Analysis
Date published: 2022
The UK is in long term relative economic decline, falling further and further behind countries of a similar size and stage of development as Scotland. The choice that Scotland faces is to remain part of the declining UK economy, or to realise agency and take responsibility for improving the performance of the Scottish economy.
Agency and Helplessness and Scotland’s Future
Author / Creator: Bottom Line
Media type: Discussion Paper
Date published: 2022
n the last two years, Scotland has dealt with two of the biggest economic shocks in history, the health, social and economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit.
The Bottom Line
Author / Creator: David Simpson
Media type: Website
Date published: 2022 -
The Bottom Line aims to invigorate the debate on the economics of Scottish independence.