Autumn is still a hot season in Hong Kong, politically. It’s almost a year now since the Occupy Movement, and, council members of the University of Hong Kong will have to make a final decision on the ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-18
Beijing’s failed rescue maneuver and sudden devaluation of the renminbi have been blamed for the global stock market contagion earlier this week. Yet such rhetoric may have overstated the impact from ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-26
In recent weeks, there has been a chorus of opinion arguing for a sharp increase in global investment, particularly in infrastructure. Former United States Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers asserted ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-13
The World Bank recently announced that China’s economy will surpass that of the United States this year, measured according to purchasing power parity (PPP). But this is far from a holistic depiction ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-07
The best review of Thomas Piketty’s "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" that I have read so far is the one published by my friend and frequent co-author Lawrence Summers in Michael Tomasky’s journal ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-09
