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MMT for Scotalnd. Scotland for MMT.Common Space5 big ‘rock the boat’ ideas the indy movement could take from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Ben Wray

This is Part 2 in my two-part series analysing the 354-page report from the Scottish Growth Commission – Scotland – the new case for optimism: A strategy for inter-generational economic renaissance (released May 25, 2018). In Part 1, I considered their approach to fiscal rules and concluded, that in replicating the rules that the European Commission oversees as part of the Stability and Growth Pact, the newly independent Scotland would be biasing its policy settings towards austerity and...