Ben Wray analyses new data on the experience of living in Scotland’s private rented sector, and argues for reversing the trend under devolution of increasing privatisation of the rental market.

This paper examines several possible policy ideas for social security in an independent Scotland.

These ideas include increasing social security provision to match typical Nordic countries, introducing a negative income tax, implementing a job guarantee scheme and introducing a full Universal Basic Income.

Mhairi Love looks at the case for asset based community development in the North-East of Glasgow through mapping derelict and vacant sites in the area and looking at how the Community Empowerment Act could be utilised.

This paper presents a detailed case for a Scottish National Investment Bank that would provide secure, stable finance for long term investments in Scotland.

In this submission to the Scottish Government’s Social Security Consultation, Common Weal proposes a Child Benefit top-up (made tax deductible), Citizens Pension and a means by which benefit sanctions can be scrapped entirely.

Laying the foundations for a safe and secure banking sector by creating a Scottish National Investment Bank, a not-for-profit “People’s Bank” to deliver retail banking services and a network of community owned bank branches to ensure access to financial support.

Professor Paul Spicker analyses the planned devolution of social security powers to the Scottish Parliament in the Scotland Bill

On how to shift the narrative of politics from one of ‘I’, where individual freedom takes precedence over and above collective experience and responsibility to a ‘We’ of collective and shared responsibility and experience. This paper is a precursor to what would come to be known as “wellbeing economics”.

Common Weal and Living Rent’s five key reforms of the private rented sector.

Dr Angela O’Hagan outlines a series of proposals for how to work towards women’s equality in an independent Scotland.