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Economies are Ecosystems (opens the original)
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The article below is one I wrote for Property Chronicle a few months back. Like the one I wrote on Regional Government and Reforming the House of Lords, (see here) it is non partisan. I don’t care who reads it and implements it - as long as somebody does.TLDR: The Parable of the Desert Horses is a true story of how abandoning top down initiatives and embracing an bottom up approach helped save North West China from becoming one large desert. The read across to the UK economy is that me
Space Cars And Money (opens the original)
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Use the regions to bring back representative Government (opens the original)
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The new Government says it wants to restore influence to the regions. It should do this by adapting existing systems rather than by building a new layer of the political class.Take the old blueprint for electing MEPS in 12 UK regions and use it instead to elect 150 regional ‘Senators’ starting with the existing House of Lords as a key pool of candidates.These Senators would be based in the regions and work cross party with local MPs to represent their voters’ views and needs to Parliament in Wes
Estonia and the Econoclasts (opens the original)
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