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The final report of the Industrial Strategy Commission outlines a bold vision for strategic economic management in the UK, including institutional reforms at the centre. Can we expect the same radicalism from the May government? A nation awaits. After decades of economic inaction, the UK stands on the verge of adopting a comprehensive industrial strategy, long after the international consensus … Continue reading →
1 November 2017 by Craig Berry
Categories: SPERI Comment
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Tags: Craig Berry, Industrial strategy, Industrial strategy commission, investment, Northern Powerhouse, SPERI, the Treasury, Theresa May
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Britain urgently needs a new national development strategy after the Brexit vote and must find the will to embrace a radically different model of the state Sometimes you just have to say it again, doubling down on what you think. In one of the first posts I wrote on this site in 2013, I proclaimed: ‘We are all developing countries … Continue reading →
23 March 2017 by Tony Payne
Categories: Inclusive Growth, SPERI Comment
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Tags: Alexander Hamilton, Brexit, Developmental state, Friedrich List, Mariana Mazzucato, Peter Evans, post-Brexit, State, the Treasury, tony payne, ‘entrepreneurial state’, ‘national deal’
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The first seminar in the new ESRC Seminar Series on The Politics of Wellbeing takes place at the Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS), University of Sheffield, today. The series, led by Ian Bache (Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield, Karen Scott (Lord Richard Percy Fellow, Newcastle University) and Charles Seaford (Head of the Centre for Wellbeing, new … Continue reading →
31 January 2014 by Sarah Boswell
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Tags: Analysis and Insights Team, Cabinet Office); and Louise Reardon (Department of Politics, David Cameron, ESRC, Imperial College and former Head of the National Wellbeing Programme at the Office for National Statistics); Paul Anand (Professor of Economics, ONS, Open University); Ewen McKinnon (Wellbeing and Civil Society Policy, Paul Allin (Visiting Professor, Politics of wellbeing, the Treasury, University of Sheffield, wellbeing
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The stakes are high as Labour seeks approval from the Office for Budget Responsibility Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls, has requested that the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) assesses Labour’s plans for government. His intention is to show that the spending commitments Labour makes in the run-up to the general election are matched by cuts elsewhere, or extra revenue, having … Continue reading →
15 October 2013 by Craig Berry
Categories: Craig Berry, Finance, SPERI Comment
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Tags: depoliticisation, Ed Balls, financialisation, George Osborne, Labour, neoliberalism, OBR, Office for Budget Responsibility, Parliament, public finances, The Great Uncertainty, the Treasury
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Industrial strategy: here come the British
The final report of the Industrial Strategy Commission outlines a bold vision for strategic economic management in the UK, including institutional reforms at the centre. Can we expect the same radicalism from the May government? A nation awaits. After decades of economic inaction, the UK stands on the verge of adopting a comprehensive industrial strategy, long after the international consensus … Continue reading →
1 November 2017 by Craig Berry
Categories: SPERI Comment | Tags: Craig Berry, Industrial strategy, Industrial strategy commission, investment, Northern Powerhouse, SPERI, the Treasury, Theresa May | Leave a comment