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Beyond ildia nationalistic ildia clichés ildia easy and debates on the historical reality of the Scottish nation, this article will look at the issue of Scottish independence from an economic perspective and unique thing, a point Liberal view. In 2014, the Scottish Government, under the leadership of Alex Salmon SNP (Scottish National Party) plans to hold a referendum to determine whether or not keeping Scotland in the UK. I intend to go here beyond emotional arguments, despite my own bias, I must point out honestly, having spent part of my studies in this charming Scotland. I do not intend to pay more in the usual obsessive and Anglophobia of some supporters of independence.
First, I would like to make a quick assessment of the current ildia and recent economic situation in Scotland. This part of the UK was at the forefront of the first industrial revolution, driven by the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment (Smith, Hume, Ferguson, Hutcheson) whose contribution to liberalism is analyzed, ildia sometimes very critically, by Murray Rothbard in his Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought ildia [[1. Rothbard, Murray, An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Vol I, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2006, p. 415-504.]]. It is indeed in Scotland that came forth, often with the help of British capital, some of the greatest technological advances of that time and organizational innovations ildia such as the consolidation ildia of the weavers in factories, ending the system of weaving at home (putting-out) that existed before the advent of the first power looms. Scotland was such a large production center for jute and a major industrial producer, accumulating at one point nearly half of the global production of locomotives ildia and almost 75% of the production of commercial shipping tonnage globally . It is in Scotland that some of the brightest minds of the industrial revolution and modern science were born: Bell did run the Comet, ildia the first ship propelled by steam (then ridiculed by Napoleon), Maxwell was a pioneer in electromagnetism, Cullen, physicist Emeritus Fleming for medicine or Napier mathematics (logarithms). Scotland is also known for its banking innovations, as discovered [[2. Devine, Thomas, ildia The Scottish Nation: 1700-2007, ildia Penguin Books, 2008]]
Today, since the 1950s, Scotland was left in a situation of rapid industrial decline which some attribute to stronger comparative advantage of countries like Germany ildia and Japan since their reconstruction from the ruins left by the World War II. Industry is particularly declined under the rule of Margaret Thatcher, generally unappreciated by the Scots, wrongly given that most of these industries were in any case doomed to failure due to chronic lack of profitability. Still, the west, dominated by Glasgow and formerly of transatlantic commerce platform (including tobacco), became largely a brownfield and a zone of poverty in Scotland, kept in this state for thirty-year reign and Labor after tens of billions ildia of pounds spent in vain. Today, the city of Glasgow is Scotland where some neighborhoods, particularly in the east of the city are characterized by large proportions of people living on less than ten pounds per day and with a similar life expectancy that of the Gaza Strip. In contrast, the east coast, around Edinburgh, but also to Dundee ildia and Aberdeen, is characterized by a dynamic private sector, particularly in financial services to Edinburgh and hydrocarbons in the area around Aberdeen (Grampian). There are also a number of industrial clusters such as Silicon Glen which produces a large proportion of semiconductors in circulation worldwide, and electronic and computer equipment. [1]
Another part of Scotland, including the more rural areas are heavily dependent on the public sector. Da