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Sprawling, earnest, and ambitious - its modest title is 'The Future' - Al Gore's new book embodies both the virtues and the flaws of its author. But those hardy souls who slog past the weaknesses will be rewarded by a book that is brave, original and often fun.

~Chrystia Freeland

Topics: Al Ambitious Author Book Both Brave Earnest Embodies Flaws Fun Future Gore Hardy Modest New New Book Often Original Past Rewarded Souls Those Title Virtues Weaknesses Who Will

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The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority.

~Chrystia Freeland

Topics: Deliver Democracy Main Majority Point Positive Positive Results Results

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Shipping middle-class jobs to China, or hollowing them out with machines, is a win for smart managers and their shareholders. We call the result higher productivity. But, looked at through the lens of middle-class jobs, it is a loss.

~Chrystia Freeland

Topics: Call China Higher Jobs Lens Looked Loss Machines Managers Middle-Class Out Productivity Result Shareholders Shipping Smart Them Through Win

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Corporations are not employment agencies, and judging them by that metric is a mistake.

~Chrystia Freeland

Topics: Agencies Corporations Employment Judging Metric Mistake Them

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In a globalized economy, jobs no longer need a passport, but workers do.

~Chrystia Freeland

Topics: Economy Jobs Longer Need Passport Workers

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Creating jobs for your country's workers is about much more than ensuring that the balance sheets of your country's companies are strong, or stimulating domestic demand. It is about figuring out how your country's workers fit into the global economy.

~Chrystia Freeland

Topics: About Balance Balance Sheets Companies Country Creating Demand Domestic Economy Ensuring Figuring Fit Global Global Economy How Jobs More Much Out Sheets Stimulating Strong Than Workers Your

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The hollowing out of the middle class is a problem common to all Western industrialized economies. Maybe we should work together to solve it.

~Chrystia Freeland

Topics: Class Common Economies Industrialized Maybe Middle Middle Class Out Problem Should Solve Together Western Work Work Together

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Our battle over the size of the state overlooks a problem that is just as important and that may be easier to muster the collective will to resolve: how effective government is, regardless of its scale.

~Chrystia Freeland

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This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually trumps the public one when it comes to accommodating consumer choice.

~Chrystia Freeland

Topics: Become Choice Consumer Default Democracy Even Intellectual Mode Much Paradox Political Private Private Sector Public Sector World

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All of us can agree that we want government to work as well as possible, and we should all applaud efforts to improve it. But there is no escaping the divisive and essential questions: What is the purpose of the state, and whom does it serve?

~Chrystia Freeland

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Musician

Born: August 2nd, 1968

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