Communities

Beware false dawns in economic policy’s winter

A new landscape for economic development is emerging. But is the shrinking of the state resulting in new thinking? Clare Goff reports

Littering the north of England, incomplete office blocks and stalled housing development schemes await their fate. Reminders of the interventionist economic policies of governments past, they haunt the landscape like relics from another era.

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A win-win agreement

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Co-ops: don’t be too co-operative about your name

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Rethinking business rates

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Will Ed correct David’s mistake on poor neighbourhoods?

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Tackling an age-old problem

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The vision for Big Society Bank puts profit above compassion

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RGF bidding war exposes a flawed approach

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Let’s work together to help the Big Society Bank get it right

The Big Society is big news at the moment. With Nat Wei shrinking his involvement and Liverpool City Council terminating theirs, David Cameron this week re-launched his vision live on television.