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Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt photographed ahead of delivering the Spring Budget

NEWSLETTER Demystifying the three myths Scotland is told about its economy

OUR objective is to help demystify Scotland’s economy. There’s a lot of defogging that has to be done ...

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Financial institutions are one of the spheres of power

NEWSLETTER Scotonomics: Let's expose major myth about 'supply and demand'
There are two sides to this story. I will start with the one you are probably less familiar with.

An economist suggested measuring not GDP, but the percentage of girls that ride their bicycles to school

NEWSLETTER What if we replaced GDP with statistics about girls on bikes?
DURING a wellbeing economy session at our Festival of Economics in 2023, I was intrigued by a short story from Amanda Burgauer from Common Weal. Quoting Katherine Trebeck, the founder of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance, Amanda said: "Kathryn suggested that we should manage the wellbeing of a community by metrics such as what percentage of girls ride their bicycles to school? Not GDP."