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When Nigel Farage accuses someone of echoing the language of Enoch Powell, you know they’ve got things badly wrong

How can Scotland deliver a just transition in the labour market? Join our webinar! Speakers include: 📣 Tom Arthur, Minister for Employment and Investment 📣 Satwat Rehman, Co-Chair Just Transition Commission 📣 Dave Moxham, Deputy General Secretary STUC 👉 eventbrite.com/e/how-can-scot…

“You don’t make people in Whitechapel better off by doing down investors in Mayfair” You do if investors in Mayfair are getting rich *at the expense of* those in Whitechapel through rentier activity. Which is exactly what’s often happening (Monopoly is an apt metaphor!)

📣 We're excited to launch ScotLand Futures – a national conversation about the future of Scotland’s land. In this short video, Chair of the Commission, Michael Russell, explains what the initiative is all about, why it matters, and how you can get involved. Whether you live in

📣 IIPP is hiring - Join the team! We are looking for a new Policy Fellow, specializing in Green Industrial Strategy and Green Finance, to join UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose Director Mariana Mazzucato's office. 🔗 Learn more and apply here: buff.ly/wWkAmme

NEW: Average earnings in Scotland are £15,000 lower than they would have been if wages hadn’t flatlined since the 2008 financial crisis If real earnings had instead grown in line with pre-crisis trends, today the average full-time worker would be earning £53,923

Commenting on the analysis, our co-director Laurie Macfarlane said:

“Rather than scapegoating migrants for the country’s economic failures, the debate must focus on the real culprit: a broken economic model.” My comment in The Daily Record on Scotland’s earnings squeeze: dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/…

If earnings in Scotland grew as normal since 2008 rather than flatlined, the average worker would be £15,000 better off This is the price of sustained economic failure

My chapter with Laurie Macfarlane in the Oxford University Press Handbook on Greening Economic Development examines how mission-oriented development banks can finance green transformation. Patient, strategic public finance from institutions like KfW Development Bank and @BNDES isn't just about filling

Deadline Monday 19th May! Looking for economists with expertise in macro/fiscal policy to join UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose! Our Research Fellow role will help design green industrial strategy that shapes markets—not just fixes them—to deliver a sustainable economy that works for people and planet.

This is what the Office for National Statistics says is responsible for soaring UK electricity prices. It’s not Net Zero.

How can Scotland deliver a just transition in the labour market? Join our webinar to discuss barriers and opportunities – and the policies needed to protect livelihoods of impacted workers + communities. The webinar is on May 20th at 18:00! Sign up here: eventbrite.com/e/how-can-scot…

This is an excellent debunking of billionaire Tom Hunter’s ridiculous call for Scotland to mimic Singapore by Stephen Boyd ippr.org/articles/singa…

Real wages in Scotland have flatlined since 2008, costing the average full-time worker £15,000 a year. Read more in our new blog by Laurie Macfarlane: futureeconomy.scot/posts/191-how-…

Our analysis of Scotland’s wage squeeze was raised at FMQs this week. The damage inflicted by austerity and runaway inflation cannot be undone. As we approach an election, rather than scapegoating migrants, the debate must focus on the true culprit: a broken economic model.

New report from me on the fast-growing climate impacts of data centres, give rocket boosters by AI… thread below summarising, report linked at the end!

Attempting to drill baby drill our way out of an aging basin with a decreasing rate of production and enormous job losses over the past decade despite huge government support is doomed to fail. Our response to Donald Trump’s illogical intervention today: