Justice

Paul Summerville • novembre 2, 2012

Commentary on the Economist endorsing Obama, Romney’s tall tales, income inequality, Wall Street dims, and justice denied in Alberta.

Welcome endorsement.

Economist -- Which one?
America could do better than Barack Obama; sadly, Mitt Romney does not fit the bill.

Related.

Paul Summerville • septembre 25, 2012

Commentary on Abu Hanza’s new home for justice, bubble life, slowdown in the global economy has David Rosenberg worried, NEETed, US civility threatened, and Stephen Harper’s democratic deficit.

Going elsewhere for justice.

Independent -- The extradition that changes the game
The court ruling that settled Abu Hamza's fate has raised concerns for the rights of others fighting to be tried in Britain.

Paul Summerville • mai 27, 2012

Commentary on putting human good at the centre of study, governance and capitalism, Tibetans and self-immolation, and punishment.

New Republic -- The Trouble with Scientism
Why history and the humanities are also a form of knowledge.

Quote worth quoting.

Paul Summerville • avril 18, 2012

Commentary on Sweden’s excellent finance minister, Spanish woes, Japanese engineers working in China, thoughts on China, America`s tax maze, inequality in America, and Canada`s white skinned judges.

Balancing the economy and social justice with good economics. Thanks to David of London.

Paul Summerville • avril 4, 2012

Commentary on Israel, the economic principle that underlies the individual mandate, Nutraloaf and life in an American prison, Canada and Russia, James Grant on the Fed, a guide to spring cleaning, and Bob Rae takes the gloves off.

So it goes.

Paul Summerville • février 15, 2012

Commentary on Republican lunacy, gold’s lack of value, religion and the 2012 Presidential election, energy independence and the US dollar, a bear view, and Vic Toews’ silly framing.

 

 

Lunatic fringe.

Paul Summerville • novembre 8, 2011

Commentary on a dangerous future, Michael Pettis on what China’s gotta do, American corporate welfare bums, the Big Lie about the cause of the financial market meltdown, the danger of lynching a tyrant, and Canada's Liberal Party leadership gamble.

Gwynne Dyer’s warning about our hot, starving and dangerous future: climate change is happening quicker, threatens food supply, there is a point of no return, and the dubious parachute. Thanks to Tony of Victoria.

Paul Summerville • septembre 30, 2011

Article on the utility of the land value tax, the Fed’s liquidity trap, Pakistani games, the weakness in emerging economies, the triple tax idea, the commodity recovery, and how to improve Canadian justice.

We have long advocated that steadily increasing the tax on empty urban land is smarter tax policy than doing the same to developed land.

Paul Summerville • juin 11, 2011

Gloomy tidings today.

Martin Wolf details the recovery risks in the global economy, Italy slides into irrelevance, Roger Cohen’s fearful world albeit written from Happy Montreal. China’s naming warning, Charlie Fell on stock markets and icebergs, and rethinking the Holocaust.

Also a light sentence for a whistler blower and rich summer reading ideas.

Martin Wolf details the bumpy patch that the developed economies have fallen into and warns against worrying about the wrong things.

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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.