Eight ideas for new administrations

摘要

Economic recovery from COVID-19 will be a long and painful process. When the pandemic struck, we at CLES argued for a new common-sense approach to economic development based on the principles of community wealth building. From this emerged our plea for local government to muscle-up and embrace a series of key interventions to lead the charge to build back better. In our Own the future publication, we fleshed out a number of practical actions, which taken together, constitute an achievable vision for a just recovery and the social, democratic and economic reform of localities, led by local authorities. In practice, we've seen areas such as Wigan, Lewes, the Wirral and North Ayrshire, as well as the Scottish and Welsh governments, start to apply these ideas to reimagine how we can make local and national economies work to achieve a progressive recovery in the aftermath of COVID-19.