Capitalism has gone wrong – just as Stalinism was socialism gone wrong
Can there be an alternative that meets the needs of the left and the right?
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Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp is the CEO of Business for Scotland, the chief economist at the wellbeing economics think tank Scotianomics, the founder of the Believe in Scotland campaign and the author of Scotland the Brief.
Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp is the CEO of Business for Scotland, the chief economist at the wellbeing economics think tank Scotianomics, the founder of the Believe in Scotland campaign and the author of Scotland the Brief.
Can there be an alternative that meets the needs of the left and the right?
THE next leader of the SNP has but one card to play, and that is to go all out for independence.
I THINK a lot of people are watching the polling for the next General election (expected in October) with despair.
A lot of people seem to think we live in a capitalist society and that many of the things harming society are the fault of capitalism. However, that only makes sense if you believe we live in a capitalist society – we haven't for a couple of decades now.
THE last two weeks' columns have focused on the deep psychological scars that many Scottish people bear. I believe that by the loss of a sense of real nationhood, we have become a nation afraid of its own shadow, a whole people in a Svengali relationship with a Westminster parliament that focuses almost exclusively on the needs of London and the South East and not on Scotland's wellbeing ...
LAST week, I painted Scotland as a half-nation living a half-life, afraid of its own (Jungian) shadow.
For me, economics has never been just about measuring financial and trade flows, or growth.
I have seen a few blogs and articles recently bleating that the wellbeing economy is a gimmick and that the Scottish Government doesn't really understand the concept
FOR years Business for Scotland's position on oil and gas taxation, and development, has been at odds with the SNP administration.
It's a well-worn trope that the Scottish Government are virtue signalling when it comes to the wellbeing economy. Usually, it's an attack from socialist leaning think-tanks who, to be fair, have reason to be sceptical.
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