Tackling Timorous Economics
How Scotland's Economy Could Work Better for Us All
2017
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How do we think differently about the Scottish economy, wealth and progress, and the world of work? What would a different kind of economy look like, and what implications would it have? And how do we begin to reframe the ideas of work and economy away from the grotesque assumptions of ‘bubble Britain?’ Experts in their fields, Trebeck, Kerevan and Boyd come together to analyse the positives and negatives of changing the status quo.
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George Kerevan
Author · 1 books
George Kerevan is a Scottish journalist, economist and politician. He was the Scottish National Party Member of Parliament (MP) for East Lothian from 2015 to 2017. In the 1980s, Kerevan was an economics lecturer at Napier University in Edinburgh. He was a member of the International Marxist Group, a Trotskyist group, between 1972-83. He later served as a Labour councillor in Edinburgh from 1984 - 1996. As convener of the District Council's economic development committee, he was a key figure in the development of Edinburgh Park, the new business quarter on the western edge of the city opened in 1995. In 1996, he left Labour to join the Scottish National Party.
Katherine Trebeck
Author · 2 books
Katherine Trebeck is Knowledge and Policy Lead at the Wellbeing Economy Alliance and member of the CUSP Advisory Board. In her longstanding involvement with Oxfam, she developed Oxfam’s Humankind Index. Her book The Economics of Arrival (2018) (co-authored with Jeremy Williams) explores a new model for development that shifts attention from growth to quality and distribution of economic activity as we seek to ‘make ourselves at home’ in a wealthy world.
