GERS and the Mismanagement of the Economy
Summary The latest Government Expenditure and Revenue in Scotland (GERS) statistics on Scotland’s public finances provide stark evidence on the mismanagement of […]
Independence and the Transition to a Net Zero Economy
Summary A recent paper from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) points to an improvement in Scotland’s fiscal balance over the next […]
Graeme Blackett on Radio Scotland 2 December 2022
Listen to Graeme Blackett of @BottomLineScot discussing the latest projections from the Institute of Fiscal Studies and what they mean for Scottish […]
The Costs of Dependency: the Tax Gap
Summary One of the costs of dependency is that Scotland is part of a UK economy that has been underperforming. This has […]
How Scotland Could Be One of the Happiest Countries in the World
Summary One of the most important indicators of a thriving economy and healthy society is that the people living in the country […]
Agency and Independence Needed to Escape the UK’s Economic Crisis
The current UK political and economic crisis is not delivering what the Scottish economy needs. This is not a recent phenomenon, but […]
A Case of Agency: Water
The Success of the Water Industry in Scotland, 2002-2022 By Professor David Simpson Introduction The common theme of the papers published by […]
Corruption: the Price of Dependency
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create […]
UK’s Failure to Recover from the Financial Crisis
The UK has been one of the poorest performing economies since the financial crisis. The economic shock of the financial crisis was […]
Economic Growth
Long Term Performance of UK Economy and Small Countries This paper is one of a series that compares the performance of the […]