Scotland’s economics festival: Big ideas for turbulent times
Stagnant wages, climate breakdown, widening inequality – can mainstream economics offer more than technical tweaks to ...
Stagnant wages, climate breakdown, widening inequality – can mainstream economics offer more than technical tweaks to ...
Come and join the celebration of economic alternatives
Keir Starmer’s resignation may mark the end of one political chapter, but the forces that brought ...
The inspiring legacy of Mr Datta, an immigrant surgeon from India who became a beacon of ...
Scotland and Canada: two northern nations look to strengthen their European connections but face very different ...
Failures by Scottish and UK governments have given Reform space to flourish, but its platform is ...
Reform’s claims to offer something fundamentally different to the ‘establishment’ parties do not stand up to ...
With a majority secured, Canada’s Mark Carney faces his own test: can his Value(s) vision survive ...
Professor Amanda Sloat from the IE University is to be the first guest at the European ...
Is it time to look again at the long-debated theory that Scotland is ‘too wee’ to ...
In Scotland we need our own pension funds to invest in Scotland; in our infrastructure and ...
Flawed rates revaluation threatens tourism and rural economies
Britain’s economy is being hollowed out as weakly regulated companies destroy assets and capital while move ...
Trump’s burning down of the rules-based order could herald a new dawn for global equality and ...
When the evidence from pre-union Scotland is examined, the idea that the United Kingdom is a ...
Dependence on Westminster costs ordinary Scots dearly: austerity, health crises, and learned helplessness
What Scotland could do to uphold the international order; to protect ourselves and to set an ...
Rejoining the European Customs Union would boost UK public finances by £25bn, say Westminster LibDems
Labour’s green promises crumble as UK airport expansions soar, risking Net Zero goals and leaving communities ...
A quiet revolution may be required to reverse economic policies causing this attack on humanity’s advancement
Neoliberalism was political in two ways: firstly, it was a choice. Secondly, it had a liking ...
How an independent Scotland could secure bilateral trade and monetary deals before ‘Independence Day’
Did the government/tax/currency triad allow humanity freedom from subsistence and, consequently, the time to think?
Press release: Ambitious £12mn appeal seeks to rescue Robert Burns' Ellisland Farm and restore the birthplace ...
Holyrood's plan to issue Scottish Government bonds would enable Scotland to borrow money for its own ...
Part one showed how neoliberalism worsened inequality and failed to raise economic growth – here, the ...
Everyone says neoliberalism is dead, but in practice it staggers on like a zombie ideology
Press release: A milestone for Scotland's sovereign future
Many of the most influential policymakers may be unaware of their affliction
An informed public, understanding the UK money system, would be less duped by false framing
Press release: undermining economic resilience – new paper warns EU fiscal rules would lock an independent ...
What independence campaigns need to know about legacy trade deals to avoid fish hooks in foreign ...
A National Pension Fund could function as a wealth fund investing in ways which support a ...
Short-term let (STL) landlords and second homeowners are the latest scapegoats for rising wealth inequality and ...
Discussions about the future of pensions in an independent Scotland to date have been confined to ...
Recently back in Scotland after 40 years away, the author looks at his hometown of Glasgow
A former Member of the European Parliament gives an update on Europe’s leadership under Ursula von ...
A National Pension Fund, as part of a new earnings-related pension system, could be a way ...
Combatting the economic statistics marshalled by opponents of Scottish independence is a trap to disable the ...
A new Scotland, based on collective endeavour and guaranteed living standards, will return outcomes greater than ...
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