Talk:Economy of Scotland

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This article was nominated for deletion on 5 January 2006. The result of the discussion was KEEP. An archived record of this discussion can be found here.

Contents 1 Expansion Help? 2 Scottish Expatriot 3 Geography of Scotland 4 Independence? 5 Third or fourth? 6 Edits by Ecr33

[edit] Expansion Help?

I appreciate this is already a fairly big article, but I think there is lots of scope for expansion namely in:

• Overview of Economic History
• Components of Manufacturing
• Exports perhaps some tables, graphs etc showing trends.
• Banking and Financial Services Standard Life, RBS, the position of Edinburgh and Glasgow as financial centres
• Other Services eg telecommunications, sales, retail etc
• Manufacturing Industries eg food and drink, capital equipment, electonics, Sillicon Glen etc
• Knowledge based industry eg biotechnology, medical research and development

Thanks Globaltraveller 17:51, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scottish Expatriot

Here's part of what I posted at the Reference Desk, in answer to a question about the British economy:

Economy of Scotland article needs a lot of editing volunteers ... as one who lived there for 15 years, I believe major elements of the economy include: tourism; north sea oil; fishing; manufacturing; education, and last but not least, whiskey. User:AlMac|^(talk) 21:12, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Whisky, yes. ;)

And why the hell are the economic figures given in USD???

We use UKP here!

I'll try and improve on it.

Guinnog 01:17, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Steel has not been an industry here for decades

Guinnog 21:37, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Geography of Scotland

This has turned into a great article. Could I ask that one of the contributors write a short summary for the 'Economy of Scotland' section of Geography of Scotland? It's about 2 lines at the moment, and could use some expansion with relevant info. Thanks, ::Supergolden:: 11:39, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Independence?

It is astonishing that a separate future for Scotland can be considered with little regard to the economy. The dreadful absence of statistics was noted back in 1999 in "An Illustrated Guide to the Scottish Economy" (see References) - it's not much better. Will Scotland continue to have huge trade deficits with Germany and China, for example just like the UK?

[edit] Third or fourth?

The link to the national statistics says that GDP per capita in Scotland in 2005 was £16,944, this is below London (£27,088) and South East England (£18,976), but after those two is Scotland, closely followed by East England (£16,906). Does this mean it is actually third, or is it fourth when adjusted for PPP or against the RPI or something like that? Doesn't put me up or down really whether it's third or fourth all for the sake of £38 but if it has to be mentioned then it should be correct.

[edit] Edits by Ecr33

Hello, I have been going through the contributions of this particular user owing to some edits to biogas. I have been systematically reverting many of the spam edits this user has made, however in this article some of the content may actually be relevant. I am somewhat loath to simply revert the entire contents of the user's edits, can someone who is a bit more familiar with this page please have a look at the diffs and try to untangle the good stuff from the spam? Thanks User A1 (talk) 23:30, 30 March 2008 (UTC)