In the city where Adam Smith developed the free-market theories that inspired Thatcherism nearly 300 years later, a young Labour politician is pursuing an economic vision that takes a drastically different approach to “the wealth of nations”. Councillor Matt Kerr, an anti-poverty specialist on Glasgow city council, has been exploring how people become enslaved by poverty – and how they can escape it.
A meeting in Glasgow last month with Guy Standing, the radical economist who founded the Basic Income Earth Network , inspired Kerr to seek cross-party support to pilot a “universal basic income” in parts of Fife and […]
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