This budget season, and so a short perambulation around the vexed question of the national debt seems in order. As a nation we've been living with debt for more the 300 years now, since 1694 to be precise, when Scottish privateer William Paterson persuaded the government of the time that creating £1.2 million of IOUs would get them out of their spending difficulties.
… Oil especially has allowed us to defy this natural balance at the price of disrupting the …
Gordon Brown's Budget was disappointing. But not just because of its economic niceties. It fails to address key issues which have become taboo amongst economists - money, debt and economic growth. Molly Scott Cato, a green economist and Senior Lecturer in Social Economy at the Cardiff School of Management, addresses all three...
Not so much 'green' as 'cabbage looking' Molly Scott Cato | 22nd March 2007 Comment Economics Gordon Brown Budget Growth UK Economics Globalisation Subsidies Fair Trade Politics And Economics Society …