2020
2019
- The Cold War and the Ascendance of America’s Research University
- The Economic Contribution of Recent Immigrants
- Family Stability Under the Tenant Purchase Scheme: A 20-Year Experiment
- Family Stability Under the Tenant Purchase Scheme: A 20-Year Experiment
- Labor Market Consequences of the Tenant Purchase Scheme 20 Years On
- Let All Public Renters Buy Their Flats – Labor Market Consequences
- When Teenagers are Unable to Learn From Their Parents
- For Your Children’s Sake
- Interpreting the Chinese Revolution
2018
- Youth Near Poverty and the Poverty Line
- Skewed View of Poverty
- Public Policy for an Economy Rich in Intangible Capital
- Get Grip on Intangibles
- Tomorrow at Lantau – The Most Cost-Effective Choice
- Rise of the Intangible Capital Economy
- What Apple and Airbnb have in common – intangible assets that power their profit margins
- Public Flat Rental Market and Increasing Housing Supply
- Public Flat Rental Market
- Property Rights Do Matter : Subsidized Sale Flats – Hong Kong versus Singapore
- Singapore’s public housing owners have one major edge over Hong Kong’s. Can Carrie Lam turn this around?
- Land for Development and Homes
- More Land for Development
- Public Housing, the Housing Ladder, and the Public Interest
- Revive the Role of Public Housing as a Step Towards Private Homeownership
- How to Sell Public Housing in Everyone’s Interest
- Housing Citizens in Hong Kong
- An Immediate Solution to Our Housing Problem
- Ownership Solves the Housing Problem
- Rethinking Hong Kong’s Fiscal Approach
- Money Back to Citizens
- Why Are Private Housing Units So Small?
- Small Private Housing Units Size
2017
- Our Future Housing Policy Commitment – Rental versus Ownership
- Housing Solution – Renting or Ownership
- The Public Rental Housing Waiting List is Getting Longer
- Public Housing Paradox
- The Labor Shortage Challenge
- Labor Shortage and Rise of Working Women
- Globalization Should Not be Blamed for the “Elephant Chart”
- “Elephant Chart” – Incorrect Blame on Globalization
- Hyper-Globalization and Hong Kong
- To Cross The Hurdle of Hyper-Globalization
- The Next Twenty Years
- How to Understand Twenty Years of Economic Performance
- Critical Junctures in Housing Policy Choices – Unintended Consequences of the 1967 Riot
- Critical Junctures in Housing Policy Choices – Distant Causes of the 1967 Riots
- Alleviating Absolute and Relative Poverty
- Information Hub, Common Law, and the Greater Bay Area Initiative
- Mispricing Risk from Chasing After Yields and Curbing Speculation
- Global Integration, Technological Advance, and Economic Performance
- STEM and Liberal Arts Education in the New Economy
- Policy Secretaries, Civil Servants and Deferred Compensation
- Land and Housing Policy Ideas for the Next Five Years (Part III)
- Land and Housing Policy Ideas for the Next Five Years (Part II)
- Land and Housing Policy Ideas for the Next Five Years (Part I)
- Knowledge Economy and Political Leadership in the New Society
- Regulation of Property Prices
- Conservative Budgeting in a Populist World
- Arrow’s Theorem and the Pan-Democratic Vote for Establishment Candidates
- Do Free Markets Worsen Inequality?
- Investing for Personal and Social Prosperity – An Economist’s View
- CE Elections and the Political Left
- Billionaires and the State
- Turning the Housing Challenge into the Housing Solution
- Where has Oxfam Hong Kong been Wrong? – Tackle Near -Poverty (and Not Poverty) in the Next Five Years
- What Kind of Economic Inequality Can We Overcome in the Next 5 Years?
- Why has Housing Demand Continued to Grow?
- Black Swans and Disorders
2016
- Basic Law Interpretation – A Legal Origins Theory Perspective
- Politics of Hope After the Election of the 2017 Chief Executive Election Committee
- Fluidity of Identity
- The Politics of US Sugar Quotas and the Fate of Cuba and the Philippines
- The Rise and Fall of American Economic Growth
- American Political Realignment and Spiritual Awakening
- How Identity Divide America: The Democratic Transformation
- How Identity Divides America: The Republican Transformation
- The Tyranny of Regulations
- Political Realignment in America
- Globalization in the Age of Milton Friedman
- Poverty, Inequality, and Hope at Hollywood Plaza
- Home Truths
- Development Regulation and Housing Shortages
- Development Realities
- Restrictive Regulations and Rising Housing Prices
- Unlocking Development Gridlock in the New Territories
- After the LegCo Elections: Where Are We and How Did We Get Here?
- Let Prices Work in the Taxi Business
- The Logic of Universal Pensions and the Way Forward
- Why Has Rent Seeking Grown in Hong Kong?
- Why is Rent Seeking So Bad for Competition, Growth and Freedom?
- Promoting Competition Must Focus on Government Regulation
- Taxation, Regulation and Confiscation of Private Property Rights
- Freedom in Populist and Liberal Democracies
- Why University Fees Should Be Raised
- Education and the Service Economy
- Causes and Consequences of Women’s Economic Rise
- The Rise of Women in Hong Kong
- Labor Market Consequences of Public Rental Housing
- Star Trek and the Postmodern Generation
- Two Interpretations of the Intergenerational Socioeconomic Divide
- Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz is misdiagnosing what’s behind the growing anger of the younger generation
- Political Reform or Livelihood Issues?
- Hong Kong Youth Activism and Parallels with German History
- The Three Faces of Liberalism
- The three faces of liberalism, and why power needs to be shared in Hong Kong
- Historicism, Postmodernism, and Political Violence: The Closing of the Human Mind
- The Closed Young Minds
- Closed Minds and Rising Political Violence
- Hong Kong’s Youth are Getting Obsessed with this One German Export
- Rising Political Violence and Socioeconomic Transformation
- The Mongkok Riots are a Wake-up Call about the Widening Wealth Gap
- The Lumpen Bourgeoisie and the Lumpenproletariat
- Let’s Look to History For Clues in Understanding the Social Mood Behind Mongkok Riots
- Negative Interest Rates
- Connectors and Startups: Hong Kong’s DNA
- Hong Kong as a Startup Hub: Mavens, Connectors and Salesmen
- Family Breakdown, Poverty and Discontent in Public Housing
- Fixed Exchange Rates, Economic Crisis, and Radical Populist Politics
- Will Entrepreneurial Decline Finally End?
2015
- Social and Economic Concerns in Designing Retirement Protection
- Making Sense of the Fed’s Interest Rate Increase
- Regulation, Rent Seeking, Innovation, and Economic Growth
- Legal Origin and the Crisis in Hong Kong
- An Economic View of Markets, Values, and Morals
- What Money Can’t Buy
- Inequality, TSA, Dishwasher Pay and Rising Returns to Schooling
- Positive Non-interventionism and Innovation
- Positive Non-interventionism as Governance Strategy
- Demystifying the Rising Poverty Rate
- Income, Health and Lifetime Well-being Around the World
- Origins of English, French and Chinese Legal Systems
- Ruled By A Mixed Past
- Civil Law, Common Law, and Social Control
- Common Law, Civil Law, and Financial Market Development
- Mandatory Provident Fund Needs Urgent Reform
- Time to get rid of offsets by employers in Hong Kong’s MPF retirement fund
- Reflections of Old Age Poverty in Public Renter Housing Estates
- Is Hong Kong Overeducated?
- How Regulation Has Stifled the Taxi Industry
- The Unhappy State of Hong Kong’s Taxi Service
- The New Territories and the English Character
- Justice Beleaguered
- Why Does Hong Kong Need Democratic Elections?
- Retail Economics and Price Theory
- Who is Afraid of a Popularly Elected Chief Executive?
- Building Codes and Postwar Reconstruction in Hong Kong
- Disastrous rent control laws and building codes in Hong Kong
- Democracy, Decline and Vested Interests
- Studies on the Development of Democracies and Hong Kong’s Political Deadlock
- Regulation and the High Price of Land
- It Is Not Pocketing It First, Every Step Counts
- Lee Kuan Yew’s Fundamental Axiom
- Growing Up in Hong Kong Before and After 1980 – A Statistical Portrait of Public Housing and Divorce Characteristics
- Growing Up in Hong Kong Before and After 1980 – A Statistical Portrait of Education Opportunities
- Early Childhood Education: Unlocking the Secrets of Income Growth and Inequality
- Early Investment in the Disadvantaged – Key to Closing Inequality Gap
- Truths and Myths behind the Individual Visit Scheme and the Ku Klux Klan
- Shades of Ku Klux Klan in stir against parallel traders
- On Hong Kong’s High Land Prices Again
- Property Owners Main Beneficiaries of Limited Housing Supply
- Irrational Politics and Their Romantic Roots
- Health care and home ownership most pressing concerns for an ageing population
- Are Working Hours Too Long in Hong Kong?
- Public Corruption in Traditional and Modern China
- Public corruption in China: Then and now
- Greece and Hong Kong – Fiscal Opposites, Same Politics
- Hong Kong, Greece in the Same Boat
- Attract Immigrants or Become Like Japan
- Non-Profits Need Competition and Transparency
- Making a World of Difference – Competing Ideas
- New Strategies Needed as Third Industrial Revolution Unfolds
- Making The Future Work
- The Roots of Rebel
- Is One Person One Vote a Primordial Method?
2014
- Random Thoughts at Year’s End
- Causes and Consequences of More Time and Money
- Universal Suffrage in 2017 is Important
- On Generation Conflict and Youth Downward Mobility
- Nine Reasons For Saying No To Populist Democracy
- Why populist democracy is wrong for Hong Kong
- The Occupy Movement and the Anatomy of Populist Democracy
- Can Democracy Solve Society’s Ailments?
- Business Entrepreneurship and the Coming End of an Aging Workforce
- The Lord of The Flies – An Allegorical Novel
- The Lord of Human Nature
- Hong Kong Must Regain Momentum to Deliver a Popularly Elected Chief Executive in 2017
- Homeownership and the Youth Protest Movement
- Chief Executive Elected by Universal Suffrage Will Bridge the Gap Between the Two Narratives
- Thoughts on the Protest Movement
- Let the Restoration Begin
- From the Bottom Up: The Pan-Democrat Narrative on Hong Kong’s Political Development (Part III)
- The Establishment View on Hong Kong’s Democratic Political Development
- Three Narratives on Hong Kong’s Democratic Political Development
- We Don’t Need Universal Social Pensions Schemes to Help the Elderly Poor
- Finding $3.336 Trillions of Housing Capital
- Health care could account for almost a third of Hong Kong GDP by end of century
- How Hong Kong could be a better city
- Why Have We Underestimated Housing Demand Growth?
- How Venice Became a Museum?
- The Chief Executive’s Political Reform Report Should Not Be Rushed
- The Challenge of Poverty, Near-Poverty and Inequality in the 21st Century
- The High Regulation Cost of Development: What Thomas Piketty’s Famous Book Really Says
- Representation of the Chief Executive Nominating Committee
- Education and Earnings of the Bottom 99%
- The Top 1% and Top 10% of Income Earners
- Gary Becker’s Contribution to Economics and the Chicago School
- Remembering My Teacher Professor Gary Becker
- Factors Critical for Improving Intergenerational Mobility
- Upward Mobility in the US and Hong Kong (Part 1)
- Polarization of the Chief Executive Elections and Political Development (Part 4)
- The Chief Executive Elections and Political Development (Part 3) – Popular Political Representation through Functional Constituencies
- The Chief Executive Elections and Political Development (Part 2) – Functional and Geographical Constituencies Compared
- The Chief Executive Elections and Political Development (Part 1)
- Tackling Long-term Budget Deficits in a Free and Ageing Society (Part 3)
- Health Care and Rising Public Budgets in a Free Society (Part 2)
- On Balancing Rising Long-Term Budgets for a Free Society (Part 1)
- Childhood Memories to Salute Women’s Day
- Fears, Economic Crises, and Political Coalitions in the Rise of the Welfare State
- When Society and Politics become a Tyranny of Minorities
- Rising Government Expenditures – Tyranny of the Majority, Tyranny of the Minorities and Bureaucratic Inertia
- Tackling Poverty through Redistribution and Growth (Part 2)
- Tackling Poverty through Redistribution and Growth (Part 1)
- The Poverty Line and the Value of Public Housing Subsidies to the Poor
- On Bitcoin and the Prospect of Digital Cryptocurrencies
- Reflections on American Slavery, the Foxconn Suicides and the Third Plenum
- Divorce, Inequality, Poverty, and the Vanishing Middle Class (II) – Rekindling Hong Kong’s Magic (Part VI)
2013
- Divorce, Inequality, Poverty, and the Vanishing Middle Class (I) – Rekindling Hong Kong’s Magic (Part V)
- Human Capital Enhancement through Education and Immigration – Rekindling Hong Kong’s Magic (Part IV)
- Adam Smith’s Moral Principles
- Adam Smith’s Political Economy and its Significance in the Modern World
- The Population Quality Challenge – Rekindling Hong Kong’s Magic (Part III)
- The Population Numbers Challenge – Rekindling Hong Kong’s Magic (Part II)
- Rekindling Hong Kong’s Magic (Part I)
- Divorce, Remarriage, and Long-Term Housing Strategy
- Coase on Controlling Light Pollution and Preserving Country Parks
- Education, Divorce, and Household Income Inequality in Hong Kong
- Education and Income Inequality in Hong Kong
- Understanding Differential Growth Rates in Singapore and Hong Kong: Role of Policy and Human Capital
- Reflections on School Subventions – St. Stephen’s Girls’ College and the English Schools Foundation
- Poverty, Intergenerational Social Mobility and Human Capital Investment
- Poverty, Inequality, Intergenerational Mobility, and Capital Market Imperfections
- Why Do White Form HOS Secondary Market Units Sell at Market Prices?
- My Romance with the University of Chicago
- China’s Path to Modernization: Barrington Moore and Beyond
- Barrington Moore on Why Communism Triumphed in China
- Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Chinese Revolution
- Barrington Moore on Dictatorship and Democracy
- Economic Thoughts on Poverty Alleviation (Part 2)
- Economic Thoughts on Poverty Alleviation (Part 1)
- Civil Service Pensions and Corruption Deterrence
- Has Hong Kong Lost Its Magic? (Part Five)
- Has Hong Kong Lost Its Magic? (Part Four)
- Has Hong Kong Lost Its Magic? (Part Three)
- Has Hong Kong Lost Its Magic? (Part Two)
- Has Hong Kong Lost Its Magic? (Part One)
- Lincoln’s Heresthetics and Moral Principles
- The Political Economy of Lincoln’s Heresthetics
- Lincoln, Heresthetics and the Birth of the Republican Era
- Income, Expenditure, Savings and the Poverty Line
- Hong Kong’s Construction Industry: Diagnosis and Prognosis
- How to Draw a Poverty Line (Part 2)? ––– Using Age as the Anchor
- How to Draw a Poverty Line (Part 1)
- Is There Sex Discrimination in the Labor Market?
- Housing, Retirement and the Economy – Why Family Savings and Investing in Children Matters
- Economics of the Family and Same-Sex Marriages
- The Value of Not Working and Its Policy Implications
- What is the Purpose of a Competition Policy?
- Commemorating Joseph Schumpeter and Milton Friedman on Capitalism (Part II)
2012
- Commemorating Joseph Schumpeter and Milton Friedman on Capitalism (Part I)
- What is the Impact of Minimum Wages on Household Income Distribution?
- Why the Minimum Wage Harms the Economy?
- Old Age Living Allowances or Universal Social Pensions
- How a Maritime Republic Became a Museum? –– The Decline of Venice
- Long-Term Housing Strategy and Homes for Hong Kong Residents –– Eighty Per Cent Homeownership (Part II)
- Long-Term Housing Strategy and Homes for Hong Kong Residents — Eighty Per Cent Homeownership (Part I)
- Urban Housing in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Lima: Implications for China
- How the Applications List System Becomes the Winner’s Curse?
- Long-Term Housing Strategy After the Mid-1980s
- Long-Term Housing Strategy Before the Mid-1980s
- Stranded between Singapore’s Way and Lima’s Other Path
- Lima’s Other Path, Tsoi Yuen Village, and North East New Territories
- Inefficiency and the Scourge of Small Public Housing Units
- Small Housing Units and the Inequity Effects of the Public Housing Program
- Why are Housing Units so Small in Hong Kong?
- The HOS Secondary Market Finally Warms Up
- Economic Integration with the Mainland –– Linked Rate, Domestic Stability, and Dual Integration (Part II)
- Economic Integration with the Mainland –– Linked Rate, Domestic Stability, and Dual Integration (Part I)
- Economic Integration with the Mainland –– Population and Poverty in a Triumphant City
- Economic Integration with the Mainland – Pregnant Mainland Mothers and the Right of Abode
- Economic Integration with the Mainland – Learning from the Multi Fiber Agreement
- Economic Consequences of Universal Old Age Social Pensions
- Can We Afford Old Age Social Security?
- On Public Health Care Finances
- On the Origins of Deep Contradictions (Part II)
- On the Origins of Deep Contradictions (Part I)
- Education for Equality and Growth
- The ABC Guide to Political Economy
- Core Values, Functional Constituencies and the Democratic Principle
- Economic Competition and Structural Change
- On the Creative and Innovative Economy
- Why is Housing so Expensive?
- External Shocks and Price Stability under the Linked Rate
- How Permeable Should Be the Border? – Hong Kong Growing as Part of China: A Historical Perspective (Part II)
- Hong Kong Growing as a Part of China: A Historical Perspective (Part I)
- Testing Milton Friedman
- The Chicago Economist’s Road from Social Engineer to Preacher of Science
- The Chicago School’s Road From Public Policy Advocacy to the Study of Political Economy
- Dolce Gabbana, Apple and Nike — the Economics of Discrimination
- The Chicago School Innovations in Economics
- The Chicago School on Assumptions and Predictions in Economics
- Emergence of the Chicago School of Economics
2011
- Liberalism versus Populism
- Taxation, Regulation and the Rational Politician
- Germany and Europe: The History
- The Economic Future of Europe
- Global Money, Local Politics, and Regional Imbalances in Europe
- Why there is Speculation in the Market for Pre-Sale Housing Units (Part II)
- Why there is Speculation in the Market for Pre-Sale Housing Units (Part I)
- Easy Money, Tight Money, and Market Monetarism
- Global Economic Integration and the Distribution of Housing Wealth in Hong Kong
- On Housing Policy and Social Justice
- On Government Failures during the Great Depression and Great Recession (Part II)
- On Government Failures during the Great Depression and Great Recession (Part I)
- Public Sector Housing Policies for Hong Kong and Mainland China – Sustaining Growth, Harmony, and Stability (Part V)
- Public Sector Housing Policies for Hong Kong and Mainland China – Unfreeze Land Values, Liberate Housing Serfs (Part IV)
- Public Sector Housing Policies for Hong Kong and Mainland China – A Proposal for Hong Kong (Part III)
- Public Sector Housing Policies for Hong Kong and Mainland China – Socio-Economic Consequences (Part II)
- Public Sector Housing Policies for Hong Kong and Mainland China – Core Considerations (Part I)
- Obama Must Lead or Become Irrelevant
- Politics in the Knowledge Society
- Social Challenges of the Knowledge Society
- From Blue Collar Worker to Knowledge Worker
- Corporate Social Responsibility: Meeting Social Needs in Hong Kong
- Corporate Social Responsibility from the Perspective of Underdevelopment in the Middle East
- What is Corporate Social Responsibility? – Three Stakeholder Views
- What is Corporate Social Responsibility – Do We Need It? And Why?
- The Iron Horse and Strategic Factors in Economic Growth
- The Global Economy Shifts East
- From the Causes of Apartheid to the Failures of Minimum Wage
- Cities, Human Capital and Economic Development
- Diversity and Occasional Anarchy: The Key to a Great City
- Why Reforming Subsidized Housing Makes Sense
- How Can We Get Out of the Housing Quandary?
- Population Challenges in Hong Kong – And Related Issues
- Raising Wages in China – Is This All It Takes?
- Contradictions in Hong Kong’s Policy Environment
- On the Surprise Element of Revolutions : Why Tunisia and Egypt?
- HK’s Budget Policy is Still the Most Sensible
- What Innovation Does China Need in the Next Five Year Plan ?
- Italian Opera Houses – Exemplary Model for Las Vegas and Macau
- Will China’s Economy Slowdown?
- What a Competition Bill Cannot Do (Part Two)
- What a Competition Bill Cannot Do (Part One)
- Minimum Wage, Employment and Poverty
- Ten Years of Low Yields, Mandatory Provident Fund Needs Reform
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