In conversations with friends and colleagues I often hear the question, “What do the youth make of this?”, or “What, really, do the youth want?” As I have argued elsewhere in my assessment of events r ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-11
... 份證「個人編號卡」（My Number Card）頻頻出問題，截至周二在連結健保卡的程序中出錯多達1069宗， ...全文
I wrapped up my happy three-week trip in Toronto with a fond memory of delicious Asian meals, long overdue gatherings and autumn-like nice weather – and returned to Hong Kong. Still jetlagged, I was a ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-09
I had the pleasure of watching ‘Barbie’ - by myself - earlier this week. Truth be told, I went in with relatively low expectations. I have a general aversion to movie hypes and hyped-up movies, and ha ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-09
Who should pay for Ukraine’s postwar reconstruction? Shortly after Russia’s invasion, my co-authors and I estimated that it would cost roughly €200-500 billion ($220-550 billion) to rebuild the countr ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-08
... torment. My fear is that there would be no Heracles to bail us out of the crisis we have collectively engendered ourselves, and that would send us down a path of no return. First, it’s the whale, the ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-08
... 有在心中大叫「Oh My God」！ 在這個活人身上，右腿被以百計的蛆蟲覆蓋着，這些蛆蟲非常活躍，肥胖的身軀在 ...全文
... lling you my real experience.(我在告訴你我的真實經驗。)」辯方其後繼續問及此議題 ...全文
... is beyond my ken. However, those who choose to ignore their existence are playing the same game as Chuck Prince, the ill-fated CEO of Citigroup, who, back in 2007 opined, “When the music stops…things ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-04
My current visit to Israel has coincided with a period of unprecedented political turmoil. A radical right-wing government’s package of legislation to disempower the judiciary has started to be adopte ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-02
... 售銀行業務與潛在買家My Money Group定下新條款，目標明年1月完成交易，將令集團風險加權資產（RWA ...全文
... cracies - my generalist knowledge, of sociology, geopolitics, literature and beyond, equips me with the context to understand how societies broadly function in non-democratic states, whilst my philoso ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-28
... oods economy." As I pointed out in my earlier article "The rise of Indian-origin CEOs", the country focuses on STEM education, so it should not be underestimated in the digital wave transformation. In ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-25
... friend-enemy distinction by appealing to moralising fictions; he embraced the fact that, as Kundera puts it bluntly, we were all “shit” anyway, and thus should recognise the nature of the political as ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-21
... challenge my specific comparison - by positing that colonels do in fact wield more power than brigadier-generals. So suppose that’s true: would this not still therefore justify our assigning more resp ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-20
... in 10 of my classmates ended up as a doctor – and our class was not the brightest among our generations. Well, not all students would get their first education or career choice. But life goes on, and ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-20
... tions. In my view, the vision for the World Bank is simple: to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet. But that vision is threatened by these intertwined crises – and we are in a race agai ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-18
... using. In my thirties, my wife and I could buy a property but my children, who are professionals, cannot. We need to regulate the market more.” The larger cause of today’s prosperity is Ireland’s entr ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-17
