Autorentext

James Foley is lecturer in politics at Glasgow Caledonian University. He received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh and is the author of Scotland after Britain and editor of Contesting Cosmopolitan Europe.

Klappentext

Using Scotland as a case study for examining the political meaning of "the economy", this book considers the origins of efforts to measure the Scottish economy in the British nationalist terms of "regional policy".

Inhalt

Preface Introduction: Imagining Economies 1. Theorising Nations, Regions and the Imagined Economy 2. Regional Policy, Planning and the Emergence of the Scottish Economic Imaginary Before the 1970s 3. North Sea Oil and the Scottish Economic Imaginary 4. "Europe", Transnational Space and the post-Imperial Scottish Economy 5. Class Struggle, Class Compromise, and Scotland's Economic "Voice" 6. An Economy of Enterprises: Devolution and Neoliberalism 7. The Financial Crash, the Question of Independence and after: Change and Continuity Conclusion: Scotland's Imagined Economy? **Afterword