The idea that business can be at the heart of an inclusive society, driven on the path towards social progress by a dynamic market, without undue exploitation, maximising shared economic and social benefits, must be central to any definition of progressive capitalism. It’s the theme of my new book, ‘The Company Citizen’. Continue reading “The Progressive Company Citizen”
Skills analyst Andy Norman outlines the challenges of doing labour market analysis at the pathway level
Skills analyst Andy Norman outlines the challenges of doing labour market analysis at the pathway level.
No amount of political Budget gloss will cover the cracks of the UK’s productivity problem, but the role of place in the industrial strategies offers a glimmer of hope
No amount of political Budget gloss will cover the cracks of the UK’s productivity problem, but the role of place in the industrial strategies offers a glimmer of hope. Continue reading “Government finally shows signs of spatial awareness in its industrial strategy”
Skills analyst Andy Norman reviews the recent policy developments announced in the Budget and Industrial Strategy White Paper
In his Budget speech the Chancellor Phillip Hammond spoke of building a ‘prosperous and inclusive economy where everybody has the opportunity to shine.’ It is a line in keeping with the type of language that has come to characterise the current government’s ambitions since Theresa May’s speech on the steps of Downing Street in July 2016.
Continue reading “The skills challenge: turning rhetoric into reality”
Centre Director Thomas Aubrey argues that the Chancellor Philip Hammond must act in the upcoming budget to end monopolistic pricing in the land market if the government is to tackle the housing crisis
In 1884 the Republican Party was accused by Major General Ben Butler, a former Republican, as being the “Party of Monopolists”. Butler was outraged that a banquet for the Republican presidential candidate attended by the country’s millionaires and monopolists sealed their allegiance to the party.
Continue reading “End this monopoly now Mr Hammond if you want to solve the housing crisis”
But the Commission’s final report misses an opportunity to put sub-regional devolution at the heart of a new approach to strategic economic management.
But the Commission’s final report misses an opportunity to put sub-regional devolution at the heart of a new approach to strategic economic management.
“Rise up with me against the organisation of misery,” rallied Sir Michael Marmot in his 2010 landmark review of health inequalities in the UK. Quoting Pablo Neruda lends poetic grace to the weight of Marmot’s quantitative evidence as to the ‘social gradient’ of health. Poor people die younger and get ill earlier. In their lifetime, people living in the most deprived areas of the country are likely to experience levels of ill health not seen amongst individuals in the least deprived areas for another 20 years. Health inequalities are inextricably linked to social and economic inequalities. As the World Health Organisation (WHO) put it starkly, “social injustice is killing on a grand scale”.
Continue reading “Fresh vision as the Industrial Strategy Commission moves beyond sector deals”
Use the rise in land value to build 150,000 new homes and invest £8bn in infrastructure along the Cambridge to Oxford corridor
Use rise in land value to build 150,000 new homes and invest £8bn in infrastructure along the Cambridge to Oxford corridor
As the Chancellor starts preparing for his Autumn Budget, increasing investment in housing and infrastructure will be towards the top of his priority list. The challenge for Philip Hammond is that the uncertainty surrounding Brexit has negatively impacted the economy, leaving him less wiggle room than he had previously hoped.
Continue reading “What the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget needs to say”
With a change to the 1961 Land Compensation Act, the necessary investment in infrastructure and affordable housing along the Oxford – Milton Keynes – Cambridge corridor could be funded
The 2017 general election engendered a surprising, but welcome cross-party consensus that the municipality should benefit from the rise in land values to fund infrastructure, opening up new land for housing. Indeed, it was mentioned in both major party manifestos. Extensive research by the Centre for Progressive Capitalism has estimated that England alone could generate up to £185 billion of incremental investment over the next 20 years. Continue reading “Market prices and the housing crisis”
Using the example of the automotive industry, skills analyst Andy Norman explains why Britain must first solve its skills crisis if it is to make the most of Brexit
As those tasked with negotiating Brexit will not doubt be discovering, the complications of disentangling the UK and EU economies are immense. This is especially true when it comes to trade, with roughly 44% of the UK’s exported goods and services going to EU countries in 2016. But the issue isn’t simply that we sell a lot to the EU, rather that the things we sell often have supply chains that rival even the most adventurous summer Interrail routes.
