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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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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

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This daft plan was always heading for the chop

What could cause such a fuss, you might wonder, that would result in 400,000 people, including the likes of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the National Trust and Dame Judi Dench to campaign so vociferously? What would lead The Daily Telegraph to say they’re a national treasure that must be saved and the BBC to question why we’re a nation of tree-huggers?