Scotland's Economics Festival
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Taking place in Leith, 19th- 21st March 2026. Scotland’s Economics Festival: Bringing Big Economic Ideas to Scotland. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/scotlandseconomicsfestival
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Why is so much of the left economically incompetent? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
Why is so much of the left economically incompetent?
LabourList published an article last week under the headline “Bond markets explained: How in hock are we – and can we break free?”
The article began with a question that should trouble anyone who care...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Why is so much of the left economically incompetent? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
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Our webinar is TOMORROW & there are only a few tickets remaining!
Join our Co-Director @lmacfarlane.bsky.social and Senior Economist @hannawheatley.bsky.social for a discussion on whether private finance can fix the nature crisis.
🗓️25 Nov 12:30-1:30pm
👇Book now: www.eventbrite.com/e/can-privat...
Join our Co-Director @lmacfarlane.bsky.social and Senior Economist @hannawheatley.bsky.social for a discussion on whether private finance can fix the nature crisis.
🗓️25 Nov 12:30-1:30pm
👇Book now: www.eventbrite.com/e/can-privat...
Can private finance fix the nature crisis?
Join Future Economy Scotland for a webinar exploring how to scale up nature restoration in line with a just transition.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Our webinar is TOMORROW & there are only a few tickets remaining!
Join our Co-Director @lmacfarlane.bsky.social and Senior Economist @hannawheatley.bsky.social for a discussion on whether private finance can fix the nature crisis.
🗓️25 Nov 12:30-1:30pm
👇Book now: www.eventbrite.com/e/can-privat...
Join our Co-Director @lmacfarlane.bsky.social and Senior Economist @hannawheatley.bsky.social for a discussion on whether private finance can fix the nature crisis.
🗓️25 Nov 12:30-1:30pm
👇Book now: www.eventbrite.com/e/can-privat...
November 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Richard Murphy: What Scotland needs from the Budget (but won’t get) www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
Richard Murphy: What Scotland needs from the Budget (but won’t get)
There is one thing that can be said for sure about Rachel Reeves’s Budget on Wednesday and that is that there will be remarkably few references to…
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November 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Richard Murphy: What Scotland needs from the Budget (but won’t get) www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
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Join us for a discussion between climate theorists Andreas Malm and Wim Carton, and acclaimed sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson on the new front lines in the struggle for a liveable planet.
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www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...
Climate Revolution: The Only Future | The Verso Book Club Reading Grou
Kim Stanley Robinson is joining the VBC Reading Group to discuss climate fiction and reality with Andreas Malm and Wim Carton.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Join us for a discussion between climate theorists Andreas Malm and Wim Carton, and acclaimed sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson on the new front lines in the struggle for a liveable planet.
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...
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New episode this week! I sat down a little while back with the very brilliant @amirleb.bsky.social to talk about development economics, tariffs, biomimicry and what the world could learn from China.
@the-breakdown.bsky.social
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@the-breakdown.bsky.social
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November 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
New episode this week! I sat down a little while back with the very brilliant @amirleb.bsky.social to talk about development economics, tariffs, biomimicry and what the world could learn from China.
@the-breakdown.bsky.social
www.break-down.org/survival-of-...
@the-breakdown.bsky.social
www.break-down.org/survival-of-...
Great new book from our Festival Partner @versobooks.bsky.social Check it out! #VivaLaRevolution!
Out now! Revolutions: A New History by Donald Sassoon
"This is thrilling history. Sassoon examines some of the most important revolutions of the modern era and argues for their importance in understanding the shaping of our own times."
- Rana Mitter
"This is thrilling history. Sassoon examines some of the most important revolutions of the modern era and argues for their importance in understanding the shaping of our own times."
- Rana Mitter
Revolutions
Revolutions is a sparkling account of political upheaval and the power of history. We think of revolutions in terms of fleeting events, such as the Fall of the Bastille or the Storming of the Winter P...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Great new book from our Festival Partner @versobooks.bsky.social Check it out! #VivaLaRevolution!
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Let’s be clear: Scotland is not on track for a just transition.
For every 3 oil & gas jobs lost, only 2 green jobs have appeared - People are being left behind.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. With proper planning and investment, Scotland could create 40,000 more energy jobs than we’ll lose.
For every 3 oil & gas jobs lost, only 2 green jobs have appeared - People are being left behind.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. With proper planning and investment, Scotland could create 40,000 more energy jobs than we’ll lose.
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Let’s be clear: Scotland is not on track for a just transition.
For every 3 oil & gas jobs lost, only 2 green jobs have appeared - People are being left behind.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. With proper planning and investment, Scotland could create 40,000 more energy jobs than we’ll lose.
For every 3 oil & gas jobs lost, only 2 green jobs have appeared - People are being left behind.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. With proper planning and investment, Scotland could create 40,000 more energy jobs than we’ll lose.
To change everything, you have to change everything. This report hints at the need for a different economic framework in Scotland. Great work!
Our report with @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @iipp-ucl.bsky.social warns Scotland’s economy stands at a critical juncture.
To close the gap between ambition and delivery, it must move beyond minor tweaks, and embrace an investment-led, mission-oriented industrial strategy.
🧵 Recommendations 👇
To close the gap between ambition and delivery, it must move beyond minor tweaks, and embrace an investment-led, mission-oriented industrial strategy.
🧵 Recommendations 👇
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
To change everything, you have to change everything. This report hints at the need for a different economic framework in Scotland. Great work!
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Richard Murphy: Could a crash as bad as 2008 hit us? The answer is yes www.thenational.scot/comment/2559...
Richard Murphy: Could a crash as bad as 2008 hit us? The answer is yes
Most of the serious economic commentators now think we are witnessing a stock market bubble, led by the increasing value of seven major US tech…
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November 3, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Richard Murphy: Could a crash as bad as 2008 hit us? The answer is yes www.thenational.scot/comment/2559...
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Join us on Wed 19 Nov for an online screening of Purpose - a Wellbeing Economies Film. Followed by a discussion exploring how we can change the rules of our economy so it delivers good lives on a healthy planet.
Book your space: www.tickettailor.com/events/wellb...
Book your space: www.tickettailor.com/events/wellb...
Select tickets – Purpose Film: Online Screening – Zoom
Purpose Film: Online Screening – Zoom, Wed 19 Nov 2025 - In Scotland, one in four children are growing up in poverty. People are facing impossible choices as they can’t afford the essentials. At the s...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Join us on Wed 19 Nov for an online screening of Purpose - a Wellbeing Economies Film. Followed by a discussion exploring how we can change the rules of our economy so it delivers good lives on a healthy planet.
Book your space: www.tickettailor.com/events/wellb...
Book your space: www.tickettailor.com/events/wellb...
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Yesterday, Institute President Pavlina Tcherneva (@ptcherneva.bsky.social) delivered the keynote at the CIRIEC International & Bordeaux GSEF 2025 conferences—highlighting global successes of the job guarantee and the social and solidarity economy movement.
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President Pavlina R. Tcherneva Delivers Keynote at CIRIEC International and Bordeaux GSEF 2025 Conferences – Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
Institute President Pavlina R. Tcherneva delivered the joint keynote address at the CIRIEC International and Bordeaux GSEF 2025 conferences, bringing together leading voices from across the global soc...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Yesterday, Institute President Pavlina Tcherneva (@ptcherneva.bsky.social) delivered the keynote at the CIRIEC International & Bordeaux GSEF 2025 conferences—highlighting global successes of the job guarantee and the social and solidarity economy movement.
www.levyinstitute.org/news_items/p...
www.levyinstitute.org/news_items/p...
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This week we were proud to speak at Scotland’s inaugural Just Transition Summit.
Scotland's oil and gas sector is in long-term decline. Like it or not, Scotland must now prepare for a post-fossil fuel economy. 🧵
Scotland's oil and gas sector is in long-term decline. Like it or not, Scotland must now prepare for a post-fossil fuel economy. 🧵
October 31, 2025 at 9:52 AM
This week we were proud to speak at Scotland’s inaugural Just Transition Summit.
Scotland's oil and gas sector is in long-term decline. Like it or not, Scotland must now prepare for a post-fossil fuel economy. 🧵
Scotland's oil and gas sector is in long-term decline. Like it or not, Scotland must now prepare for a post-fossil fuel economy. 🧵
*Bringing big economic ideas to Scotland*
A unique, public-facing celebration of economic thinking – designed to challenge, inform, and inspire. Leading economists, commentators, campaigners, and curious citizens to explore BIG economic ideas.
www.tickettailor.com/events/scotl...
A unique, public-facing celebration of economic thinking – designed to challenge, inform, and inspire. Leading economists, commentators, campaigners, and curious citizens to explore BIG economic ideas.
www.tickettailor.com/events/scotl...
Scotland's Economics Festival
Scotland's Economics Festival – Scotland’s Economics Festival is open to everyone: Students, workers, policy-makers, activists, and anyone trying to make sense...
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October 31, 2025 at 11:28 AM
*Bringing big economic ideas to Scotland*
A unique, public-facing celebration of economic thinking – designed to challenge, inform, and inspire. Leading economists, commentators, campaigners, and curious citizens to explore BIG economic ideas.
www.tickettailor.com/events/scotl...
A unique, public-facing celebration of economic thinking – designed to challenge, inform, and inspire. Leading economists, commentators, campaigners, and curious citizens to explore BIG economic ideas.
www.tickettailor.com/events/scotl...
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What a fabulous time we have had in Bristol, Amsterdam, Sheffield, London and Vienna - not to mention Chichester and Singapore.
These photos are from the Vienna #MMT workshop.
These photos are from the Vienna #MMT workshop.
September 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
What a fabulous time we have had in Bristol, Amsterdam, Sheffield, London and Vienna - not to mention Chichester and Singapore.
These photos are from the Vienna #MMT workshop.
These photos are from the Vienna #MMT workshop.
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"Edinburgh Television Festival’s office is still located in London"
UK dysfunctional centralisation writ large on a door somewhere on London.
#scottishindependence
www.thenational.scot/culture/2539...
UK dysfunctional centralisation writ large on a door somewhere on London.
#scottishindependence
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Just 7 per cent of Edinburgh TV Festival panellists based in Scotland
Kicking off today, the 50th Edinburgh Television Festival, is the annual gathering of broadcasting’s big hitters.
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August 19, 2025 at 9:34 AM
"Edinburgh Television Festival’s office is still located in London"
UK dysfunctional centralisation writ large on a door somewhere on London.
#scottishindependence
www.thenational.scot/culture/2539...
UK dysfunctional centralisation writ large on a door somewhere on London.
#scottishindependence
www.thenational.scot/culture/2539...
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#MMT Austria & the whole EU would benefit from a lot more people discussing the basics of MMT, the remaining flaws in the design of the eurozone and the fiscal framework, and the impact this has had on equity and sustainability.
Join in! September 27/28.
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Join in! September 27/28.
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Money, Government and the Public Interest | Vienna
Public Money for Public Good: Why MMT Matters | Vienna, Austria
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August 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
#MMT Austria & the whole EU would benefit from a lot more people discussing the basics of MMT, the remaining flaws in the design of the eurozone and the fiscal framework, and the impact this has had on equity and sustainability.
Join in! September 27/28.
events.humanitix.com/public-money...
Join in! September 27/28.
events.humanitix.com/public-money...
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The evidence is clear: taking action on climate change today is far cheaper than paying for the consequences of unchecked warming later.
Policymakers need to grasp this — as time is running out.
Policymakers need to grasp this — as time is running out.
July 31, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The evidence is clear: taking action on climate change today is far cheaper than paying for the consequences of unchecked warming later.
Policymakers need to grasp this — as time is running out.
Policymakers need to grasp this — as time is running out.
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As the Land Reform Bill moves through the Scottish Parliament, one thing remains clear.
Without bold changes to how land is owned and managed, Scotland cannot unlock its potential on housing, inequality, productivity, and the climate.
Here's why the Bill matters and where it falls short.
🧵1/6
Without bold changes to how land is owned and managed, Scotland cannot unlock its potential on housing, inequality, productivity, and the climate.
Here's why the Bill matters and where it falls short.
🧵1/6
July 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
As the Land Reform Bill moves through the Scottish Parliament, one thing remains clear.
Without bold changes to how land is owned and managed, Scotland cannot unlock its potential on housing, inequality, productivity, and the climate.
Here's why the Bill matters and where it falls short.
🧵1/6
Without bold changes to how land is owned and managed, Scotland cannot unlock its potential on housing, inequality, productivity, and the climate.
Here's why the Bill matters and where it falls short.
🧵1/6