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Blog: Business-led Inclusive Growth in Scotland – SMEs, Good Jobs and Places

by Mark Hepworth, Co-Founder and Director of Research and Policy, The Good Economy

The Scottish Government wants businesses to play a central role in delivering its inclusive growth policies at the national, regional and local levels. It recognises that engaging constructively with businesses is contingent on a deep understanding of the links between business practice and [...]

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Blog: Setting the Vision: The Future of Work in Britain

by Anna Thomas

The ‘future of work’ is mostly cut into bite-sized chunks: future skills, predicting automation, measurements for job quality, for example. Mostly, this is right – or at least useful. But if we always take this approach, we risk the repeat of a lazy narrative. Sometimes we should embrace [...]

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Blog: Inclusive Growth: it’s time to measure what we value

by Andy Norman

In a speech at the University of Kansas in 1968 Bobby Kennedy famously declared that GDP measures everything ‘except that which makes life worthwhile.’ Yet, more than half a century on, GDP’s prominence in assessments of national progress remains unchallenged.  Kennedy’s critique focused on the [...]

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Blog: The Future of Good Work: The Foundation of a Moral Economy

by Anna Thomas

Thinking about the broader role of good work in our society invites a broader conversation about the foundational principles which should frame this debate. There is also an urgent need for new thinking about the most appropriate policy architecture for supporting a ‘people first’ approach to [...]

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Blog: Finance, Debt & Society

by SPERI Research Team

Over the past decade, conventional thinking on the financial sector has been turned on its head. Prior to the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers argued that deregulated financial markets would self-regulate and accurately price risk. But in fact, complex financial products generated [...]

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Blog: Rethinking a New Economy

by Sue Newsom

  “Financial deregulation has markedly increased the frequency and magnitude of banking crises, entrenching instability as a structural feature of the global economy and, in the case of 2007-08, leading to systemic breakdown.  Economic growth has been based on an unprecedented [...]

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Blog: Survival of the Richest

by Nomi Prins

Like a gilded coating that makes the dullest things glitter, today’s thin veneer of political populism covers a grotesque underbelly of growing inequality that’s hiding in plain sight. And this phenomenon of ever more concentrated wealth and power has both Newtonian and Darwinian components to [...]

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Blog: The continuous challenge of labour rights

by Kari Tapiola

Fifty years ago, the International Labour Organization received the Nobel Peace Prize. In the lecture delivered on that occasion, the Director-General at the time, David Morse, concluded that the goal of social justice, established by the founders of the ILO in 1919, was a dynamic concept. “As [...]

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Blog: Embedding inclusive growth into the nation’s psyche

by Ben Franklin

Growth at any cost is a defunct idea but there is confusion about where to go next   Bill Clinton famously coined the term “it’s the economy stupid” when campaigning for President of the United States. At the time, it was generally believed that as long as public policy was aligned [...]

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Blog: Capitalism, Democracy & the State

by SPERI Research Team

The 2008 financial crisis rocked global capitalism to its foundations. In its aftermath growth has slowed, living standards have stagnated, inequality has risen and tight fiscal austerity has re-shaped the social and political structure of many advanced countries. Developing economies have not [...]

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Blog: Inequality is growing – but it’s not inevitable

by Claire Spoors

On the eve of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Oxfam is again highlighting extreme economic inequality across the world. Our research shows that the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world saw their wealth decline by 11 per cent last year, while [...]

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Blog: Future of Work Presentation: Liam Byrne MP

by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth

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Blog: Future of Work Presentation: Jeffrey Franks, IMF

by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth

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Blog: Future of Work Presentation: Jack Tadman, Opinium

by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth

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Blog: Ignore the USA

by Torsten Bell

In navigating this complex and important debate, I have one rule of thumb: ignore the United States of America. Why is that a good idea? First, if we focus on the US, we soon conclude that “wages and productivity growth are now completely unrelated”. This is something that has been a problem in [...]

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Blog: Automation as opportunity

by Lily Cole

Running a technology company – impossible.com – for the last five years has given me the opportunity to watch from many angles, just how technology is affecting work, including the impact on jobs and how automation alters and sometimes replaces the workforce. One woman at Impossible, for [...]

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