Three Steps to the Good Life
Flourishing in Canada: How to get the Good Life boils down to three core goals. If we can achieve these (not insignificant) goals, we’ll be well on our way to living, collectively, with dignity:...
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What is an Economy For?
In a June 2010 article for the Harvard Business Review (“You Are What You Measure”), Dan Ariely refers to psychologists and economists who demonstrate that “h]uman beings adjust behaviour based on the metrics they’re...
National Loneliness: Conflating Independence with Autonomy
Loneliness is a complex experience spurred by a complex of factors. There are few among us who haven’t felt its ache. In Canada today, we’re able to connect virtually as never before, yet isolation...
What an Economy is For: Framing Policy Development
The years since 2007 have shown us flaws on our economic systems that were not being well-addressed even prior to the crisis of Covid-19. A “centrist” view that our basic model of mixed...
United Nations Calls for UBI
It’s time that all economies realize the value of universal basic income. It would not only make pandemics easier to manage but would provide all human lives with fundamental dignity and autonomy. “The spread...
Education: Metacognition
Image courtesy of Punaruangjan at FreeDigitalPhotos.net If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Derek Bok There is nothing more important to the long-term success of a society than the quality of its education. No...
Beyond GDP: Lessons for Redefining Progress in Canadian Food System Policy
The Toxicity of a Hyper-Competitive Work Environment
Universal basic income can be the worst of all worlds - but ‘free money’ schemes do work
Correcting Capitalism: Changing Metrics and Meanings of Work among Japanese Employees
Loneliness During the Covid-19 Pandemic