Author: Flourishing Team

UBI Works is a Canadian initiative to recognize the value and affordability of universal basic income. They note that parliament now has over 40 MPs in support of UBI and compile compelling research into...

So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a slogan closely related to ‘gird up your loins,’ or...

If the German retirement system had added as many years to the retirement age as we added to the overall life expectancy over the past century, the official retirement age would stand at around...

Photo Credit: Elle Neill at Naples, Italy It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest....

Photo: Elle Neill The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.  – Paul D. Boyer In The Labour Market 2, we promised an explanation of the connection between employment and economic (and...

Photo Credit: Elle Neill 2015 “When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.” -Calvin Coolidge In “The Greatest Market Failure Ever: Part 1,” we examined how well the labour market...

“I became an actor by accident.” – Christopher Walken Yao Ming is 7 feet tall and weighs 141 kilos (at least during his playing days). He is China’s most famous sports hero, was the...

Photo: Elle Neill, Parc LaFontaine, Montreal, 2018. “He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period but throughout a complete life.”...

Photo: Elle Neill, Rome, 2014. The Tournament Effect is the tendency over time for the gains to the winners to increase disproportionately to those of the more moderately successful. And there seems to be...

Photo: Elle Neill We wanted flying cars. Instead we got 140 characters. – Peter Thiel, Founder of Paypal The Tokyo Metro is a marvel of efficiency and practicality: beautifully clean and well-designed with excellent...

Photo: SSG Robert Stewart. Creative Commons License.  Poverty is fundamentally about a lack of cash. It’s not about stupidity. – Erin Anderssen, Globe and Mail The idea of Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) was debated...