How an independent Scotland could create effective, modern and secure customs and borders infrastructure.

A blueprint for a three year process to design, set up and launch a currency for an independent Scotland.

An analysis of the likely fiscal position of Scotland post-independence given many of the structural changes that will occur as a result.

Common Weal’s submission to the Scottish Government on the Open Government Partnership.

Malcolm Fraser outlines a vision for housing based on reinvigorating town centres and creating good quality of life for all.

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

This paper explores the historical precedents covering how debts and assets are split when states dissolve or become independent and applies those models to the case of Scottish independence.

This paper re-opens and re-examines the case for each of Scotland’s plausible currency options in the event of independence and weighs the pros and cons of each.

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.

The case for the Scottish Government’s proposal to half and then eliminate Air Passenger Duty with the stated goal of boosting tourism in Scotland is examined and found to be counter-productive.

This paper looks at the economics of shale gas extraction (“fracking”) and makes the case for Scotland to pre-emptively ban the practice.

This report provides detailed results of what we believe to be the largest and most comprehensive survey of those who said they took part in the Yes campaign.

This report proposes a mutual, sectoral model of industrial development and rejects both ‘top down planning’ and ‘free market’ approaches.

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

This report is a plan for delivering this change through a National Childcare Service in public provision, as a replacement for the fragmented, haphazard and unequal nature of the childcare sector at present. The report provides a comprehensive, costed strategy for achieving this transformation.

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.

A Scottish Digital Currency and payments system, sitting alongside the pound sterling, that could support and boost the Scottish economy.

This paper looks at the implications of whistle-blower Edward Snowden’s revelations of the global nature of US and UK mass surveillance of innocent citizens and businesses.