#3 Fix the economy
Align productivity, energy costs, and innovation incentives for sustainable growth.
The United Kingdom does not have one isolated economic problem. It has a collection of interacting problems across: public finances; taxation; productivity; employment; housing; energy; infrastructure; water; business investment; household finances; long term liabilities; trade; inequality; and intergenerational…
The challenge
Any credible market architecture has to coordinate all of the following at once — not just one of them.
- Architecture and control — Who coordinates the system, and how
- Objectives — What economic policy is fundamentally trying to achieve
- Taxation and spending — What is taxed, what is spent, and how each is judged
- Environment — How environmental objectives connect to economic incentives
- Digital infrastructure — How the underlying data and systems are organised
- Governance and safeguards — Democratic control, privacy and accountability constraints
What must a good solution do?
A successful economy should not ultimately be judged by GDP, stock market indices, tax receipts or government spending. Those are measurements of activity, value or financial flows. They are not the purpose of the economy. The purpose of an economic system is to enable people to live: prosperous, secure, healthy,…
- Physical & engineering feasibility
- Cyber-physical & operational performance
- Human participation & behavioural realism
- Fairness & distributional outcomes
- Economic & market design
- Governance & legitimacy
- Resilience & security
Candidate architectures
Compare all candidates →Investigation status
- Problem defined
- Complete
- Outcomes defined
- Complete
- Design space
- 8 decisions
- Candidates
- 1 under review
- Mapped positions
- 8
- Evidence claims
- 6
- Open critiques
- 0
- Decision
- Not yet reached
How this investigation works
Compare
- Candidate solutions
- Design positions
Each candidate takes a position on every design decision — that's what the comparison matrix shows.
Test
- Evidence
- Critique
Evidence and critique live on each candidate's own pages, not as a separate tab here.
Decide