The Next Economy. Professor Bruce J. Katz. Edinburgh Lecture, 15 December 2010

Professor Bruce J. Katz, Vice-President and Founding Director of the Metropolitan Policy Program, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC

The Great Recession has been a wakeup call. It unveiled an economy
dangerously out of whack: frenzied with consumption, wasteful in its use of
energy, more adept at increasing inequity than sharing prosperity, more successful at exacerbating rather than easing divisions between Wall Street and Main Street. Bruce Katz will outline a vision of a rebalanced next economy in the United States -- one that is increasingly orientated towards exports, lower carbon, fuelled by innovation, opportunity-rich, and led by metropolitan areas -- and explore its implications for the UK and Scotland.

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