Do we possess the freedom to think? There are really two questions embedded within this. The first, concerns the normative. Do we possess a reasonable claim, or liberty (both moralised concepts) to th ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-23
“Brexit has failed” – this was the astonishing admission last month of Nigel Farage, former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and the man most responsible for persuading the British people to ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-15
"Brexit has failed" – this was the astonishing admissio ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2023年06月15日
The tentative deal that was just struck to raise the United States’ debt ceiling won’t make the problem go away. Partisan standoffs over the federal debt limit have become a predictable feature of Ame ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-30
The debate about how to achieve climate goals – most notably, the transition to net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases – has fueled speculation that the world will deglobalize. Some argue that, since ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-17
Capitalism relies on competition. In practice, however, this core principle is often violated, because ambitious capitalists will naturally seek to eliminate competition and secure a commanding market ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-08
A stream of European countries have exited the controversial Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) over the past year. France, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Luxembourg, Slovenia, and Denmark have all ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-05
In the past few years, investors have seen the coronavirus pandemic enveloped the world, prompting widespread upheaval to established patterns of conducting business, communication, travel, and the da ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-25
Reacting to Silicon Valley Bank’s sudden collapse, André Esteves, a senior Brazilian banking executive, recently told Bloomberg that “SVB’s interest rate risk would’ve been obvious to any banking inte ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-06
Given the environmental impact of proof-of-work crypto mining has always been a criticism of the industry, Hong Kong’s recent regulatory warming to crypto, as well as its ambitious sustainability plan ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-03
An easy way to start a long, heated debate is to mention global population. Thomas Malthus famously ignited furious arguments in the nineteenth century when he warned that, absent fertility-control po ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-31
When Edmundo, a waste picker in Peru, caught COVID-19, he had to take out a bank loan to pay for his visit to the clinic. Many of his colleagues also fell ill and subsequently went into debt, desperat ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-24
Recent months may well be remembered as the moment when predictive artificial intelligence went mainstream. While prediction algorithms have been in use for decades, the release of applications such a ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-09
In my view, the most profound and insightful work of political economy written in the 2010s was neither a journal article nor a monograph nor a book in the traditional sense. Rather, it was an online ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-09
“What gets measured gets done.” It is a well-worn maxim, attributed to everyone from management guru Peter Drucker to physicist Lord Kelvin. Regardless of who said it first, the point is a crucial one ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-08
When it burst into the mainstream several years ago, the sustainable investment movement met relatively little resistance as it sought to persuade managers and shareholders to shift their focus from s ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-27
History is boring. We get it. I get it. Indeed, there’s a reason why certain politicians and goons enjoy piling on history – it’s because history is defenseless in face of the more exciting, animated, ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-23
初選案今日在高等法院(移師西九龍裁判法院)舉行第四日審訊，續由控方讀出開案陳詞。控方提到，何桂藍曾與其他被告出 ...全文
Helping Ukraine win its war against Russia is essential for European and global security. The good news is that the United States and its allies have recently taken two major strategic steps in the ri ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-03
