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 […] August 18, 2023August 18, 2023Dependency, Economics, Fiscal Deficit, GERS, UKBy Bottom Line
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 […] November 23, 2022November 16, 2022Agency, Economics, GDP Gap, GDP Growth, GDP per Capita, Growth, Independence, Small Advanced Economies, Tax Gap, UKBy Bottom Line
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 […] October 26, 2022October 23, 2022Agency, Economics, Growth, Helplessness, Independence, UKBy Bottom Line
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 […] September 7, 2022August 28, 2022Agency, Corruption, Dependency, Helplessness, Trust, UKBy Bottom Line
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 […] August 24, 2022August 15, 2022Economics, GDP per Capita, Growth, Small Advanced Economies, UKBy Bottom Line
Economic Growth Long Term Performance of UK Economy and Small Countries This paper is one of a series that compares the performance of the […] August 17, 2022August 16, 2022Economics, GDP Growth, GDP per Capita, Growth, Small Advanced Economies, UKBy Bottom Line