Laurie Macfarlane

Overview

Laurie Macfarlane is a Scottish economist and writer, co-author with Josh Ryan-Collins and Toby Lloyd of Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing (2017, Zed Books/New Economics Foundation), which argues that mainstream economics' conflation of land with capital underlies the modern housing crisis and its financialisation. He is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Future Economy Scotland and a visiting fellow at University College London's Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), the same institute where his co-author Ryan-Collins is head of research. He previously worked as senior economist at the New Economics Foundation (NEF) — the book's co-publishing partner — and as economics editor at openDemocracy, and his research contributed to the design of the Scottish National Investment Bank.

See Also

• Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing (book page) — the book he co-authored
• Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing (research summary) — in-depth wiki summary of the book's land–credit feedback thesis
• Josh Ryan-Collins — lead co-author and IIPP colleague
• Land Value Tax — the policy instrument the book advocates

Sources

1. Ryan-Collins, Lloyd & Macfarlane (2017), Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing, Zed Books — wiki book page — used for co-authorship and the book's core argument.
2. Laurie Macfarlane, New Economics Foundation profile — used for career history (NEF, openDemocracy, Finance Innovation Lab, Scottish National Investment Bank work).
3. Laurie Macfarlane, UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment — used for his current visiting-fellow affiliation with IIPP and Future Economy Scotland role.