REPORTS

Policy, Place, People, and Planet

REPORTS: from Runaway to Resilience

Our reports provide a foundation for a resilient economy and support policymakers and the public in building practical and resilient policy. We highlight that the economy is a human-made system and that citizens have the power and the capacity to redesign our economy.  

Scottish Government Bonds and Investing in Ourselves

This paper principally discusses the decision to fund infrastructure investment through international capital markets rather than to build private-sector resilience by offering a retail bond exclusively to the Scottish public, credit unions, and/or Scottish institutions, specifically Local Government Pension Schemes. 

The Four Pillars of Resilience

Tram in Birmingham, England

Policy

Crisis: Responding to ecological and socio-economic crises through bold and progressive economic policy.

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place

Sustainability: Local and national economics that support community wealth building.

Farmers in a greenhouse

Planet

Nature: Economic and nature based solutions within our planet’s ecological boundaries.

Anti-racism march through city centre

People

Systems: Recognising that people thrive when economic, social and political systems work together.