Separate Scottish and the rest of U.K. systems of local business property taxation remain the only British example of regional fiscal autonomy. Scottish local business property taxes are L400m. per annum higher than if parity of treatment existed. A Kaleckian tax incidence model is used to...

Contemporary economics is regarded as being in a state of crisis. Many of the new directions in economics are fully consistent with the Scottish political economy tradition. An under-appreciated name in the Scottish tradition is John Rae (1796-1872). As well as making important contributions to...