Season 1 · Episode 360
Whatever happened to levelling up?
How can you have an efficient economy when one part of the country is subsiding the rest? The levelling up agenda seems to have been thrown in the too-hard basket. But what could be done?
Debunking Economics - the podcast · Steve Keen & Phil Dobbie
July 19, 202334m 26s
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Show Notes
One of the biggest problems Britain faces is that so much of the wealth is concentrated in the southeast. And it only seems to be getting worse. The country has shifted from a Prime Minister who promised to level-up the economy, to a fiscal conservative who wants to cut government spending and reduce real wages, meaning there is less spending power outside London. Phil asks Steve if there is an easy solution to the economic destruction London is rendering on the rest of the UK?
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