A paper arguing for a Scottish payment system that would add resilience to the Scottish economy, save small businesses money on each transaction and would, eventually, ease the transition to an independent Scottish currency.

A national rent controls scheme based on the quality of the home and the wellbeing the tenants can expect.

A blueprint for a National Energy Company that would own Scotland’s energy infrastructure and a Scottish Energy Development Agency to determine where future infrastructure should be built.

Automation and other disruptive technologies are being rapidly deployed into economies and planning is required to adapt economic policies so as to avoid job losses.

An alternative approach to measuring building energy efficiency.

An illustrative map – based on real Scottish geographic data – showing what a reformed former grouse moor could look like.

An assessment of the economic potential of alternative uses for Scottish land currently used for grouse shooting.

A plan to rapidly restore Scotland’s local democracy.

This paper looks at the vulnerabilities in the UK’s electoral process in the form of the lax regulation around digital political adverts.

Common Weal opposes the UK government’s proposal to close the Feed-In Tariffs scheme, which was introduced in 2010 to support the adoption of small-scale, low-carbon electricity generating technologies.

This report forms Common Weal’s response to the first stage of the Scottish government’s review of building energy standards and is part of our ongoing work on energy and housing policy.

Common Weal’s response to a Scottish Government consultation on a Public Energy Company.

Peter Ryan examines the expansion of data collection and its use as a tool for the manipulation of elections.S everal recommendations are made which will help safeguard our democracy against unfair or malicious influence from companies or foreign states.

Scotland is not well served by the UK’s National Grid and the current system restricts the development of Scotland’s renewable energy potential and leads to high charges for Scottish consumers.

In the second paper of a series examining the Sustainable Growth Commission’s report, Common Weal looks at Fiscal Policy and provides an alternative prospectus based on ensuring wellbeing and equality for the people of Scotland.

Drawing upon previous work on currency in an independent Scotland, this paper lays out the process for designing, creating a launching a new currency so that it is operational by day one of independence.

An update to the study published in early 2017, this paper examines trends in polling on the question of Scottish independence to look at shifts in attitudes amongst groups such as the developing trends based on voter age, income, gender and nationality.

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.