Scottish Government

Building Scotland’s future now: A new approach to financing public investment

Author / Creator: Iain Cairns

Media type: Policy Paper

Date published: 2017?

Reclaiming investment is a necessary task. The value in the concept of investment is that it is exactly the opposite of the sort of speculative, short-termism in economic thinking that dominates the minds of ‘investment’ bankers.


A Citizens’ Assembly for the Scottish Parliament

Author / Creator: Common Weal

Media type: Policy Paper

Date published: 2020?

A Citizens’ Assembly will gather citizens’ opinions, enabling political decisions to be made after getting citizens’ considered and informed judgement. The overarching benefit of a Citizens’ Assembly in the Scottish Parliament would be a profound increase in the legitimacy of Scottish laws .