Small economies
Scottish independence: how do other small economies fare?
Author / Creator: Marlene Jugl
Media type: Article
Date published: 2022
"The successes of small economies are highly contingent on state and society’s ability to capitalise on the strengths and minimise the vulnerabilities of small population size."
The Costs of Dependency: the Tax Gap
Author / Creator: The Bottom Line
Media type: Article
Date published: 2022
The growing economic gap between the UK and other advanced economies means that there is also a tax gap, making it challenging to fund good public services
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.