Will Thomson
Macro N Cheese
Ep 356 - Scotland's Economic Suicide Pact? with Will Thomson
- Published
- November 29, 2025
- Duration
- 1h 7m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Aug 23, 2026
Discusses Steve and his guest, Scottish political economist William Thomson, use the fight over Scotland’s ind…
Summary
Steve and his guest, Scottish political economist William Thomson, use the fight over Scotland’s independence to dissect how class power hides inside “neutral” economic rules. Will, founder of SCOTONOMICS, talks about his journey from neoclassical training to a heterodox, political-economy perspective grounded in MMT, ecological economics, and class analy…
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Steve and his guest, Scottish political economist William Thomson, use the fight over Scotland’s independence to dissect how class power hides inside “neutral” economic rules. Will, founder of SCOTONOMICS, talks about his journey from neoclassical training to a heterodox, political-economy perspective grounded in MMT, ecological economics, and class analysis. He recently wrote a paper (with friend-of-the-podcast Dirk Ehnts) showing how the Scottish government’s plan to copy the EU’s Stability an