And shall we look within your football team and see how many people would match your definition of "immigrant"?

Don't be hypocritical and accept it when it serves your aims and objectives: which is to eventually sell the club for profit, probably to investors who are not English.

Let us also never forget who colonised who first and what the massive implications of that was for many of the people now seeking better lives in the countries that benefitted off of exploitation and imperialism.

I'd also like to see what Carney does next on a macro scale. Talk is cheap without action and I hope that his speech wasn't just posturing.

This necessitates as the authors acknowledge a much broader set of stakeholders and so we need to widen our analytical lenses commensurately.

A few questions this raises are the typical political economy questions about who benefits, who pays, and who manages?

My own research is demonstrating that detailed understanding of local spatial, historical, political, social, and economic landscapes are crucial. These form the nexus of development/underdevelopment.

We also need to recognise that local conditions themselves give rise to factors that impact the efficacy of localised, place-based IP. As Arkebe Oqubay wrote: space influences industrial development and vice versa (paraphrased).

This involves recognising that different regions have different development pathways and that successful industrial strategies must be tailored to local conditions."

One point in particular: "Rather than abandoning agglomeration altogether, we argue for placing it within a broader, more flexible framework that takes place seriously. ...

Should we not, then, be focusing on using ECD to create better members of society first?

The rest will surely follow?

But that is not to completely shoot down the core ideas being proposed. Too many children are the victims of an economic system that abuses adults too. And so because of circumstances, historical and contemporary, many children's needs are insufficiently met.

I do hope that the authors have a more qualitative approach or framework to follow that transcends the idea of people as units to be used a black-box economic machine.