Right time, right place: Why now is the moment for British pension funds to invest in Britain
We need a new political economic model for the UK.
Urban and regional economic development theory and policy pre-dates the rise of institutional investment and investors in the 1980s and 1990s.
So, we need to develop new theory and policy, fit-for-purpose economic and regional growth models that properly reflect this fundamental change in our financial landscape.
If we can do this – turning more and more financial investment into economic investment as we go – then we can shift the course of financialisation, and get institutional investors off the sidelines and onto the football pitch where we’re 5-0 down at half-time in the Inclusive Growth Cup Final.
