Citizens Advice Scotland comment: Decision-makers should experience the reality of debt before making financial policy

Earlier this month Andy Haldane, chief economist of the Bank of England, gave a talk at TedX in Glasgow entitled “Putting the public back in public institutions". Echoing an opinion piece he’d written in The Herald a few days earlier, his theme was that members of the public should have more input into the thought processes of the bank’s monetary committee, as he wanted to ensure that the decisions they make reflect the real experience of people across the UK. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16310491.Citizens_Advice_Scotland_comment__Decision-makers_should_experience_the_reality_of_debt_before_making_financial_policy/