Sam Bowman on Britain's Economic Stagnation

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Podcast #260: Making Britain Great Again

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Sam Bowman is the editor-in-chief of the magazine Works in Progress .

His own work focuses on the economic stagnation of Britain .

He suggests a number of ways to counter that: by removing barriers to innovation and development, promoting nuclear energy, and building more housing.

Many parts of the country are totally left behind economically because they can’t plug into areas of higher growth.

The UK has the most expensive industrial energy prices in the world and those energy prices are so high because we just haven't built the energy supply that we need.

I think [it] is most directly explainable by the fact that we’re not able to build the things we need, such as houses.

As late as 1965 , Britain had more nuclear reactors than the rest of the world put together.

We had 21 nuclear reactors in 1925 . The US had 12 . The USSR had three . We had the first nuclear reactor in the world as well. And then after the Second World War is where things begin to go quite badly for the UK .

Gas in the North Sea meant that gas was a much cheaper energy source.

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