Hong Kong
A currency-board economy whose domestic wealth is concentrated in a property cartel fed by restricted land sales, and whose role as China's offshore financial window has changed materially since 2020.
9 books · 2 people behind it
Start here
- Asian GodfathersJoe Studwell, 2007
- Architect of ProsperityNeil Monnery, 2017
- Land and the Ruling Class in Hong KongAlice Poon, 2005
The people behind it 2
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Journalists 2
Books 9
Jan Morris · 1988 · The colony at its commercial peak, before the handover.
Joe Studwell · 2007 · How the region's tycoon families actually make money: licences, land, rents.
David Kynaston, Richard Roberts · 2015 · Authorised modern history of HSBC, the territory's dominant financial institution.
Neil Monnery · 2017 · Cowperthwaite and the fiscal rules that produced the low-tax model.
Maggie Keswick · 1982 · Jardine Matheson: the hong model of diversified trading conglomerate.
Alice Poon · 2005 · The clearest short account of how the property oligopoly extracts rent.
John Greenwood · 2007 · The currency board explained by the economist who designed the peg.
Leo Goodstadt · 2007 · How Hong Kong's banks and bank crises shaped the miracle economy.
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Antony Dapiran · 2020 · The 2019 protests and the political-risk repricing that followed.