Foundational Economy Wales

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  • What We Mean When We Say “Foundational”

    Every so often, a new policy word comes along that promises to reframe everything – growth, wellbeing, prosperity, even hope. “Foundational” is one of those words. It sounds solid, moral, even comforting. It speaks to what keeps us going: the services, infrastructures, and relationships that make daily life possible. But the more the word travels,…

  • The psychologies of decline and deindustrialised communities

    Is decline in the UK’s post industrial places is now as psychologically fixed as it is structurally? One of the observations from the latest UK competitiveness index, or NICE Index Report 2025, produced by Robert Huggins of Cardiff University and Piers Thompson at Nottingham Trent University, is that people in these places, such as the…

  • Hello!

    Hello!

    I’ve set this up as a place to publish thoughts, observations, ideas on the foundational economy and other alternatives around regeneration in Wales. Essentially, it’s a way of getting me in the habit of writing about this field as I begin a research project looking into the foundational economy and its impact on communities, people…