Year: 2020

Post code poverty has influenced exam results in Scotland from time immemorial. Did C19 offer a once in a generation opportunity to balance up the results?   At SLRG we often talk about the postcode

Embedded inequality, subsistence wages, impoverished public services, unsustainable debt, land speculation, forced economic migration and homelessness can be history…IF we so choose. Is it any wonder our public revenue is inadequate? The owners of rent-yielding

It is wrong to believe that we should revert to live as we did before the pandemic. The statistics of its incidence show that the poorest people have suffered far more than the rich and

Common Weal has published Resilience Economics: An Economic Model for Scotland’s Economy. https://commonweal.scot/…/2020…/Resilience%20Economics_0.pdf The authors present an overview of the current and historic problems Scotland has endured and a call for a better future using

Writer Bill Paterson calls for the revenue reform desperately needed in Scotland: AGR/LVT. https://www.scottishreview.net/BillPaterson527a.html?utm_source=Sign-Up.to&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=8427-399012-COVID-19%3A+we+need+leaders+who+put+the+welfare+of+all+people+first

You’d need a good reason to consider moving tax from wages to site rents. The good reason is the avoidable DEADWEIGHT LOSS of at least £500 billion a year suffered by the UK. Scotland’s share

MSPs could add £12.8bn to Scotland’s economy today with a tax reform that would nut embedded inequality, fairly. That additional £12.8 billion would be shared each year between Scotland’s public and private sectors.

Social unrest may be expected in the wake of C19. Not because we were hit by a disaster not of our making; but because the wilful starvation of public services, leading to poor pandemic precautions,

In this radio programme Neil MacGregor examines the great Indus Valley civilisation. 4,500 years ago a state thrived in which it appears each contributor was valued equally. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qb5xx The evolution of the science of economics