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
... c for Fu. Twenty-five years ago he was a student helping broadcast news about students’ democracy movement to Hong Kong. Weiboscope is now offering its June 4 special edition for the public at http:/ ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-29
Thomas Piketty’s impressive and much-discussed book Capital in the Twenty-First Century has brought considerable attention to the problem of rising economic inequality. But it is not strong on solutio ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-19
... t for the twenty-first century. Such a vision, like all of Europe’s most effective conceptions, would be a blend of French and German ideas. France is currently gripped by the massive success of econo ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-19
Reading Thomas Piketty’s influential new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, one might conclude that the world has not been this unequal since the days of robber barons and kings. That is odd, ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-15
In the online journal The Baffler, Kathleen Geier recently attempted a roundup of conservative criticism of Thomas Piketty’s new book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century". The astonishing thing to me ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-12
... Hangzhou. Twenty residential projects have had trheir prices slashed and some are offering staggered down payment. The practice all but disappeared after the government cracked down on property specul ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-14
... payment. Twenty-five companies proposed a dividend with a yield more than the 7-day interest rate offered by Alibaba's Yu'E Bao online money market fund. Observers say more listed entities are willin ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-09
... s demand. Twenty-one of the 58 wells in the district, which are estimated to have reserves of more than one trillion cubic meters, are now extracting shale gas with annual production capacity of one b ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-01
... n protest Twenty-three students were detained and more than 30 police officers and demonstrators hospitalized early Monday after Taiwan’s antiriot police began evicting protestors from the Executive Y ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-24
Twenty-three students were detained and more than 30 police officers and demonstrators hospitalized early Monday after Taiwan’s antiriot police began evicting protestors from the Executive Yuan, Apple ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-24
Fifty-four Chinese chemical companies announced their 2013 results on Monday, with 38 of them, or 70 percent, reporting growth in revenue, the China Securities Journal reported Tuesday. Twenty-four fi ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-18
... of 2013. Twenty companies have so far submitted reports to the ministry about corrections they have made in their apps or games, deleted sensitive information that pertains to gambling and canceled l ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-18
... dian fee. Twenty-five basis points is supposed to go to Tianhong as its sales fee, but it has to share some with Alibaba in return for using Alipay's payment technologies. For the balance of 30 basis ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-27
... ilowatts. Twenty-nine others are under construction and will add 31.66 million kilowatts when completed in 2015, the report said. -- Contact HKEJ at [email protected] EL/AC/RA ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-27
Hyundai Heavy Industries has begun construction on the first of five 19,000 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) container vessels for China Shipping Container Lines Co. Ltd. (02866.HK, 601866.CN), Natio ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-21
... nterview: Twenty percent of investment in bonds issued under the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) that is used for funding indebted European nations, is from Asia, where investors in general are mor ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-13
... lion TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) last year, official data shows. Shanghai first became the world’s biggest container port in 2010 when it surpassed Singapore. Last year, Shanghai saw the openin ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-06
China Media Capital (CMC), a equity investment fund focusing on media and entertainment, has inked an agreement with Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox. Inc to buy the latter's 47 percent stake ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-03
... he coming twenty years, with another 300-400 million people moving into the cities. That will result in more than one billion people living in urban areas in the country. In May, CDB said the nation n ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-20
