Good Local Economics

Local economic policy must get social

There is a battle for the future of local economic policy. It has been captured by an over exuberant set of economic orthodoxies and its failing wisdom around competition and growth. Low wages, poverty and hardship are on the rise, and local economic policy seems increasingly incapable, if not obsolete, in tackling it.

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What are the vital signs of your local area?

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How far can the CLT model go?

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It’s systems change, stupid

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Co-ops and commons approaches to reviving places

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10 ideas for change: Co-operative local economies

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Local policies for building community wealth

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Lambeth Council: Learning lessons in co-operation

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Citizen’s income: The future for welfare?

Our benefits system is no longer fit for purpose. A new paradigm is required, and that paradigm is a Citizen’s Income, says Malcolm Torry

Systems evolve. As the palaeontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin has described it, each time the evolution of planet Earth reaches a plateau a new creative direction emerges, and that in turn leads to a plateau, and so on. Thomas Kuhn describes the evolution of science similarly.