Resources

The Colour of Money: race and economic inequality
This report focuses on how economic and wider social inequalities affect BME people in Britain.
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Financial Innovation Today, Toward Economic Resilience
by Mark Davis and Tim Braunholtz-Speight
We are at the threshold of a cultural war over the meaning of money. The events of 2007/8 were quickly framed within an Overton Window as a global ‘financial’ crisis within the...
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Creating Good City Economies in the UK
by Clare Goff
In 2015 the Friends Provident Foundation awarded funding to the Centre for Local Economic Strategies – which owned New Start magazine – and the New Economics Foundation to map ...
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People Powered Prosperity: Ultra-local Approaches to Making Poorer Places Wealthier
by David Boyle and Tony Greenham
Can we find economic techniques which cities can use effectively to tackle their own market failures – and release their own wasted economic potential – and if so, why hasn’t...
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Financial System Resilience Index
This report on resilience in financial systems, from the New Economics Foundation, richly repays reading.
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Developing resilient local economies: good practice among local enterprise partnerships
by Angela Broadbridge and Luke Raikes
Our project builds upon emerging thinking about the kind of post-recession economy we are building in Britain, and the kind of economic growth that we are seeking to achieve.
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Co-op Clusters
by Radical Routes
This report presents findings from research conducted into the problems restricting the growth of co-operative housing and to review a range of possible solutions to those problems...
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Community Chest
by Duncan O'Leary
The UK’s economy is unbalanced in two ways. First, it relies too much on debt-fuelled consumption, and not enough on business investment and exports. Second, the UK has stark geo...
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Resilient economies video wall
The specific question we posed to them was: “What would you do if you had a million pounds to build a more resilient economy?” The video wall below showcases their responses…
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