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A veritable smorgasboard of top economists has signed a letter calling upon Congress to increase the budget for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, reversing the cuts of recent years. There's people there ...
'When critics suggested that he [Sir John Cowperthwaite] collect and publish more economic statistics to back up his initiatives, he reputedly said: 'Oh, we can't do that. If we did, people would only ...
More data makes for better economic policy, right? Lessons from 20th-century India and Hong Kong suggest the opposite is true. Sir John Cowperthwaite was Hong Kong’s financial secretary from 1961-71 ...
The end of last week should have seen the jobs report, the updating of the number of those in employment and unemployment. We didn't get it because of the government shutdown. Non-essential activities ...
Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong. By Neil Monnery. London Publishing Partnership; 337 pages; £24.50. DURING the 1960s, governments were responding to ...
Sir John Cowperthwaite, who died on January 21 aged 90, was Financial Secretary of Hong Kong throughout the 1960s; his extreme laissez-faire economic policies created conditions for very rapid growth, ...
When Sir John Cowperthwaite, who has died aged 90, became financial secretary of Hong Kong in 1961, the average resident earned about a quarter of someone living in Britain. By the early 1990s, ...
When Sir John Cowperthwaite, who has died aged 90, became financial secretary of Hong Kong in 1961, the average resident earned about a quarter of someone living in Britain. By the early 1990s, ...
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