Smart Links 10 December 2011

Paul Summerville • December 10, 2011

Tags: Europe, Money, Oil, United Kingdom, Voices, Yes

Commentary on the Euro deal, the no word, happiness is experience, the oil curse, and yes Paris is amazing in January.

How you say ‘no’ in German. (ed’s note – Europe ex-UK as in Asia ex-Japan, guess geography matters). Thanks to David of London.

Telegraph -- With one little word, Prime Minister David Cameron breaks the European taboo
The PM has shown great political courage. Now he must make sure that No doesn’t become Yes.

Related.

Financial Times -- The terrible consequences of a euro-zone collapse
What happens if the euro collapses?

Related.

Telegraph -- Europe's blithering idiots and their flim-flam treaty
What remarkable petulance and stupidity.

When faced with the prospect of a large travel bill to an exotic place my Dad said that if I had the money than buy the experience. Good advice.

Awesome Good – The Experiential Economy
Money can’t buy you happiness.

Making oil work.

Project Syndicate -- Escaping the Oil Curse
Libyans have a new lease on life, a feeling that, at long last, they are the masters of their own fate.

The joys of Paris without people like us, visit in the winter.

Globe and Mail -- No crowds, empty cafés – you can’t beat Paris in the winter
Friends told us Paris was different in the winter, that it was better, as if somehow the cold rains of November and December had washed away the false patina left by the tourist crowds of summer.

14 years ...

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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.