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Paul Summerville • mars 13, 2013

Commentary on Facebook’s privacy problem, taking a bite, what worries a Navy Admiral, they used to bleed people, whither Tibet, the UK’s hungry kids, and the field narrows.

What I’m listening to today.

Purcell - Chacony in G Minor Z730

Hmmm ….

Paul Summerville • février 21, 2013

Commentary on the top 50 disruptive companies, dangerous business, the return of a bad idea, Simpson-Bowles 2.0, and the equality journey.

Shaking it up.

MIT Technology Review – 50 Disruptive Companies 2013
It might be easier to explain the 50 Disruptive Companies project by starting with what it is not.

 

The 50 Companies

Paul Summerville • février 17, 2013

Commentary on hallucinations, the wealth fixation, working at Amazon UK, stuck on nuclear, and some sparks flew.

Don’t worry you’ve got company. (ed’s note – for those who haven’t hallucinated the experience is a little like a fulsome dream only without the excuse that you were asleep).

Paul Summerville • janvier 9, 2013

Commentary on India’s 100% club, cutting upper middle class child support, peeling back the layers of welfare, Japan ups defence spending, and not idle about revenue sharing.

The 100% club and you only need to be female to be a member.

Paul Summerville • janvier 6, 2013

Commentary on bad IMF math, rail travel in the UK, Jared Diamond’s love of nature, rape in India, down on your luck learn how to pickpocket, and living in the Arctic.

Actually austerity makes things worse, sorry.

Washington Post -- IMF: Austerity is much worse for the economy than we thought
Earlier this week, the International Monetary Fund made a striking admission in its new World Economic Outlook.

Paul Summerville • janvier 3, 2013

Commentary on measuring make up, free media on the internet, Mark you got some ‘splaning to do, why the Chinese government is so worried about orgies, London looking the EU in the eye, bye Ravi, and Canada’s Bobby Sands moment.

Does makeup matter?

New York Times -- The Power of the Rouge Pot
Some would argue that makeup empowers women, others would say it’s holding them back from true equality.

Paul Summerville • décembre 28, 2012

Commentary on how cats can make you crazy, a great economics thinker passes on, better Switzerland than Norway for the UK, country supper, it stinks in the UK, and Bob Rae’s voice quietens.

Meow.

Atlantic -- How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy
Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain.

Exit or voice, or both?

Paul Summerville • décembre 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 • décembre 21, 2012

Commentary on the world according to charts, is America’s moral compass broken, why austerity is killing the British economy, the Spanish case, why economic liberalism still works, and Tom’s first year.

Useful chart packages of the best 2012 charts. Hat tip Macquarie.

Business Insider -- Wall Street's Biggest Geniuses Reveal Their Favorite Charts Of 2012
There's no better way to understand the world than with charts.

Paul Summerville • décembre 11, 2012

Commentary on a positive outlook for the US economy in 2013, a useful list of investment themes for 2013, the African boom, a deportation challenge, the danger of prohibition, and why the United States is so unequal and Canada less so.

Is private sector deleveraging over?

Keep up with CEF!

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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.