The Scottish economy : background and context / Ken Gibb, Des McNulty, Duncan Maclennan, Michael Comerford -- Key historical trends in the Scottish economy / Jim Tomlinson -- The contemporary landscape of the scottish economy / David Bell -- Fiscal matters / John McLaren -- The changing Scottish...

This paper addresses the question of whether the medium- and long-term growth potential of the advanced economies has been impaired by the global financial crisis. It evidence from the Great Despression of the 1930s to illuminate the prospects, concluding the following. First, the impact of weak...