Reflections on Scotland’s National Strategy for Economic Transformation
Building Back Worse
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is clearly happy for the state to play a larger role in the economy. And yet, by scrapping a perfectly sensible industrial strategy for no good reason, it has all but ensured that the country’s economic problems will remain unsolved.
We already live in a planned economy – we just need to take the steering wheel
Market arrangements always favour certain outcomes over others, and ensure that social arrangements stay within set parameters.
Laurie Macfarlane 