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Making a World of Difference – Competing Ideas

By YueChim Richard On 2015/01/28 · Add Comment · 4,291 views
(This essay was published in South China Morning Post on 28 January 2015.)
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New Strategies Needed as Third Industrial Revolution Unfolds

By YueChim Richard On 2015/01/21 · Add Comment · 3,981 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 21 January 2105.) This Third Sector of non-profit corporations . . . will almost certainly become the most important employer in the coming technology-driven era. Both education and healthcare should properly be in the Third Sector. . . . must stay focused when tackling social needs and become more efficient and competitive like their counterparts in the for-profit sector to create more good jobs. . . . For-profit business enterprises . . . must stay efficient and profitable to fund growth in the Third Sector. The government’s role would . . . provide an essential regulatory and monitoring framework and some matching subventions.
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Making The Future Work

By YueChim Richard On 2015/01/21 · Add Comment · 3,523 views
(This essay was published in South China Morning Post on 21 January 2015.)
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The Roots of Rebels

By YueChim Richard On 2015/01/14 · Add Comment · 5,922 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 14 January 2015.) Westernization . . . . created large numbers of people who were defined out of their native communities by their Western education, but were not formally or informally accepted as members of the community to which their education assigned them. . . . . where Islamization drew you into the imperial polity, Westernization set you against it.
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The Roots of Rebel

By YueChim Richard On 2015/01/14 · Add Comment · 2,866 views
(This essay was published in South China Morning Post on 14 January 2015.)
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Is One Person One Vote a Primordial Method?

By YueChim Richard On 2015/01/07 · Add Comment · 3,307 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 7 January 2015.) QVB is a forward-thinking method. It is the first general approach to democratic decision-making that targets the core voting method rather than tampering with regulatory constraints to mitigate the negative consequences of “one person, one vote.” It is able to reflect variations in preferences and intensities among voters.
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Tweaking the Voting System in Hong Kong

By YueChim Richard On 2015/01/07 · Add Comment · 3,213 views
(This essay was published in South China Morning Post on 7 January 2015.)
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Random Thoughts at Year’s End

By YueChim Richard On 2014/12/31 · Add Comment · 12,518 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 31 December 2014.) Different voters feel differently about an issue they have been asked to vote on. Their views on an issue may be the same but their feelings for it may have different intensities. . . . . “One person one vote” does not take into account this difference in intensity that people feel for an issue when votes are counted.
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Shopping for Solutions

By YueChim Richard On 2014/12/31 · Add Comment · 3,072 views
(This essay was published in South China Morning Post on 31 December 2014.)
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Causes and Consequences of More Time and Money

By YueChim Richard On 2014/12/24 · Add Comment · 3,617 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 24 December 2014.) There will also be political consequences due to their frustration with the lack of upward mobility, especially in a world where inequality has grown in the past 30 years. The young are often too eager to view rising inequality as the product of social injustices, even though it is largely a by-product of rapid economic growth.
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Growing Apart

By YueChim Richard On 2014/12/24 · Add Comment · 3,962 views
(This essay was published in South China Morning Post on 24 December 2014.)
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Universal Suffrage in 2017 is Important

By YueChim Richard On 2014/12/17 · Add Comment · 4,790 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 17 December 2014.)Building genuine democracy in Hong Kong requires a reconfiguration of access to local political power between the local ruling elites and the permanent residents of Hong Kong. . . . . Yet the local ruling elites are keen to encourage Beijing to assume such a role. . . . . the pan-democratic strategy of hostility towards Beijing is foolish and opportunistic. Obsessed with near-term electoral success, they are taking democracy to a dead end.
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Road to Democracy – A Different Path Forward

By YueChim Richard On 2014/12/17 · Add Comment · 3,423 views
(This essay was published in South China Morning Post on 17 December 2014)
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On Generation Conflict and Youth Downward Mobility

By YueChim Richard On 2014/12/10 · Add Comment · 5,376 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 10 December 2014.)What Hong Kong urgently needs to address is not economic upward mobility, but political upward mobility so that we can get on with the normal business of governing and dealing with slower economic growth, rising poverty, growing inequality, sinking middle class incomes, high property prices, and many other social and economic challenges.
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Lack of political upward mobility is the real problem

By YueChim Richard On 2014/12/10 · Add Comment · 6,058 views
(This essay was published in South China Morning Post on 10 December 2014.)
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