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Paul Summerville • January 10, 2013

Commentary on re-inventing liberalism, the trillion dollar coin debate, feeling the heat yet, silly Chinese censorship, great chart showing different outcomes of profits and wages, and is Chief Spence helping or hurting.

Get liberalism back on track. Thanks to Harry of Victoria.

American Interest -- The Once and Future Liberalism
We need to get beyond the dysfunctional and outdated ideas of 20th-century liberalism.

Paul Summerville • December 27, 2012

Commentary on 10 extreme weather events in 2012, the private lives of elephants, Lincoln the movie, evolving human beings, what’s at stake in Japan, and personifying pipelines.

Has the conversation really changed?

Paul Summerville • December 25, 2012

The Globalist's Top Books of 2012 and interesting reviews. 

Guardian -- Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World
A Tory MP challenges the neocon view of empire in this important history.

Paul Summerville • December 14, 2012

Commentary on climate change and melting poles, the history of global GDP in one chart, the Fed’s new framework, survival Euro, why the minimum wage is good, and squaring the foreign investment circle in Canada.

Paul Summerville • December 3, 2012

Commentary on how to think about a carbon tax, what US stocks did best in 2012, dysfunctional governance, cyber wars, the commodity conundrum, and Canada’s splendid isolation.

Paying for how we live.

New Yorker -- Paying for It
It’s been almost a century since the British economist Arthur Pigou floated the idea that turned his name into an adjective.

Quote worth noting.

Paul Summerville • November 20, 2012

Commentary on China and climate change, income inequality in the United States, Canadian energy tipping point, the positive impact of immigration on native education outcomes, and the joys of moss art.

Can China lead?

Paul Summerville • September 12, 2012

Commentary on fake monetary magic, what’s next for the Eurozone, America’s political nightmare, China’s self-inflicted wounds, and the Harper Government’s dangerous scientific blind spot.

Wonderful piece on real meaning of the Wizard of Oz and what is tells us about our current economic malaise.

Paul Summerville • September 2, 2012

Commentary on the Fed, climate change skeptics, Syrian sadness, the case for inheritance taxes, figuring out poverty, and the Quebec problem.

James Grant on the Fed’s lost way.

Paul Summerville • August 30, 2012

Commentary on the real wealth of nations. It’s much more than GDP.

Wealth comes in many packages.

Economist – The Real Wealth of Nations
A new report comes up with a better way to size up wealth.

Related.

Pdf below -- Inclusive-Wealth-Report-2012

Related.

Paul Summerville • July 30, 2012

Commentary on the conversion of a climate change skeptic, bumbling Mitt, California’s bankrupt cities, and why Winston Churchill thought Canada could be a country of 100 million people.

A lot of science can go a little way. (Hat Tip – Impolitical)

New York Times – The Conversion of a Climate Change Skeptic
Call me a converted skeptic.

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Twin Virtues: Inequality of Outcomes & Equality of Opportunity©

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Ultimately, the most successful societies find the balance between the twin virtues of inequality of outcomes and equality of opportunity.
 
The new politics must marry the twin virtues of unequal outcomes and equality of opportunity.
 
When too few get too much everybody ends up with less.
 
Can it be that striving for equality of opportunity however imperfect the process not only benefits the individual but also creates benefits for the society as a whole that are unintended but wonderful?
 
Economics must be a 'moral enterprise' as much as politics claims to be. Economic outcomes need to be framed in terms of right and wrong not just efficiency if only because these often align in surprising ways.
 
My vision of Canada is that any Canadian child from a family of limited circumstance can expect to have a chance at lifetime of unlimited opportunities.
 
Tax policy should be founded on the principle of generating steady tax revenues sufficient to maximise environmentally sustainable economic growth in order to fund fair government.
 
Public policy should be designed to decrease inequality before the law and increase equality of opportunity.
 
Capitalism is not the problem; the problem is what we do with capitalism.
 
Content is always more difficult to argue than conspiracy.
 
Let the state regulate and the market operate (most things).
 
Welfare strategies are best designed as a hand up not as a hand out.
 
Political debate should not be fact free fighting.
 
Explanation lasts longer than eloquence.
 
Always favour empowerment over dependency.
 
The most enduring public figures are embraced for the causes they fought for and not the concept of themselves they hoped others would remember them by.
 
Find your voice and don't be the echo of somebody else.