Second, depending on the institution’s mandate, a state-led investment program offers a way to rebalance the British economy away from private speculative activity to long-term investment in sustainable growth, and away from the south-east to the midlands and the north of England. In short, it offers a way to address the problem of “private affluence and public squalor” that John Kenneth Galbraith identified in the 1950s.
其次，依托该机构取得的权限，国家领导的投资项目提供了一条英国经济再平衡之路，从私人投机性活动向可持续增长的长期投资转型；从东南向中部和北英格兰转型。简言之，它提供了一个办法解决约翰·肯尼斯·加尔布雷斯（John Kenneth Galbraith）在20世纪50年代所发现的 “私人丰裕而公共穷酸”的问题。