1st Edition
The Scottish Economy A Living Book
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
About the Authors
Foreword
Frances Carincross
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 The Scottish Economy: Background and Context
Ken Gibb, Des McNulty, Duncan Maclennan, Michael Comerford
Chapter 2 Key Historical Trends in the Scottish Economy
Jim Tomlinson
Chapter 3 The Contemporary Landscape of the Scottish Economy
David Bell
Chapter 4 Fiscal Matters
John McLaren
Chapter 5 The Changing Scottish Population
Robert E. Wright
Chapter 6 Economic Policy Performance
Stephen Boyle
Chapter 7 Cities in the Scottish Economy: Patterns, Policies and Potentials
Duncan Maclennan, David Waite, Anton Muscatelli
Chapter 8 The Oil and Gas Sector
Jo Armstrong, John Maclaren
Chapter 9 Energy and Climate Change: Challenges and Policies
Grant Allan, Peter G. McGregor
Chapter 10 Changing Role of Women in the Scottish Economy
Jim Campbell, Emily Thomson
Chapter 11 Securing a Low Carbon and Circular Economy for Scotland
Dan Barlow
Chapter 12 The Education Sector in Scotland
Kristinn Hermannsson
Chapter 13 Inequality and Poverty in Scotland
Nick Bailey, Des McNulty
Chapter 14 Housing
Kenneth Gibb, Anthony O’Sullivan, Duncan Maclennan
Chapter 15 The Economy, Health and Well-being
Neil Craig, Cam Donaldson, Marissa Collins, Farouk Saeed
Chapter 16 The Scottish Financial Sector
Edward Trevillion
Chapter 17 Infrastructure and the Scottish Economy
Duncan Maclennan, Iain Docherty
Chapter 18 Local Government Finance
Kenneth Gibb, Linda Christie
Chapter 19 Scotland’s Rural Economies
Mark Shucksmith, Jane Atterton
Chapter 20 Government in Scotland
Sir John Elvidge
Afterword
Laurence Hunter
Index
Biography
Kenneth Gibb is Professor of Housing Economics and the Director of Policy Scotland, both at the University of Glasgow, UK.
Duncan Maclennan CBE FRSE is Professor in Public Policy at the University of Glasgow and leads Policy Scotland’s work on cities. He is also Professor in the School of Management at St. Andrew’s University, UK.
Des McNulty is Deputy Director of Policy Scotland and Dean, Public Policy and Knowledge Exchange at the University of Glasgow, UK.
Michael Comerford, formerly of the University of Glasgow Urban Big Data Centre, now works as a data scientist for Agile Solutions, a Glasgow based information management consultancy, UK.
