Economic Growth
From Growth to Good a ten-year growth plan for Scotland
Author / Creator: Dan Turner
Media type: Report
Date published: 2023
Without higher rates of growth, we risk a corrosive culture where people come to think of the world as a zero-sum game – where we fight to claim our share of a diminishing pie; where we reach the view that in order for us to win, somebody else must lose. It is a path we must not choose.
The Hallmark of the UK Economy is Stagnation
Author / Creator: Ross McAlinden
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
Scotland’s economic advantages have been squandered by the UK for too long.
Wellwashing. Why a superficial approach to Wellbeing Economics will fail
Author / Creator: Iain Black
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2023
An approach to economics that increases as maximises wellbeing must do so despite and regardless of the impact this approach would have on growth.
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
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.