COVID-19: Policy options, effects and resulting scenarios
Three possible scenarios which would set the UK on different courses in the recovery period after the immediate pandemic period, focused on the role of international trade in that strategy.
Understanding the impacts of COVID-19 on the Glasgow City Region economy – gauging impacts through big data?
Using data that demonstrates the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown, this article argues that Glasgow city-region economy is an important lens to consider both these impacts and the routes to recovery.
Let’s get back to the principles set out in the UK budget
Professor Anton Muscatelli argues that the recognition of university research in the UK budget now offers a focus, where UK research can help shape a post COVID-19 economy that delivers for all.
Universities hold the key to economic recovery – but there must be no return to austerity
The contribution of universities will be crucial to post-COVID recovery but the quest for the ‘new normal’ must extend to universities too, says Anton Muscatelli, Principal of Glasgow University.
South of Scotland Enterprise – A new approach, in the midst of a crisis
The priorities for the new South of Scotland Enterprise Agency to support the region’s economy through the COVID-19 crisis.
COVID-19: How Glasgow University and Policy Scotland can contribute to the response
The Policy Scotland project to bring together Glasgow University staff and civic partners to help policymakers respond to the challenges resulting from coronavirus (COVID-19).
City economies
Image credit: Felibrilu on Flickr | CC BY-NC 2.0 Material on how the public health crisis is shaped an economic crisis. What was already a deep business recession could elongate into a depression and broaden into financial crises for governments and the wider economy. The world of work, for many, rapidly turned on its head.…
This time it’s different
Article by Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli, Principal of University of Glasgow, on the required economic measures and approaches to avoid a re-run of the austerity which followed the financial crisis of 2008.