Neil Monnery on Hong Kong and the Architect of Prosperity

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🗓️ 8 October 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Neil Monnery, author of Architect of Prosperity, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book--a biography of John Cowperthwaite, the man often credited with the economic success of Hong Kong. Monnery describes the policies that Cowperthwaite championed and the role they played in the evolution of Hong Kong's economy. How much those policies mattered is the focus of the conversation. Other topics include the relationship between Hong Kong and China and the irony of the challenges Hong Kong faced from U.S. and British protectionism.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:12.6	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
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0:24.8	back to 2006.
0:27.0	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:29.6	We'd love to hear from you.
0:33.6	Today is September 2018 and my guest is Business Consultant, Educator and Author, Neil Monnery.
0:39.6	He is Director of Asheridge Strategic Management Center at Holt International Business School.
0:44.4	Before that, he was the Senior Vice President and Director at the Boston Consultant Group.
0:49.6	His latest book is Architect of Prosperity, Surgeon, Calprithweight, and the Making of Hong
0:55.6	Kong, which is our subject for today.
0:57.6	Welcome to Econ Talk.
0:59.6	Thank you.
1:00.6	So, why did you think to write this book?
1:02.7	Most of us have never heard of John Calprith's weight.
1:05.8	He's not famous in the least, and he perhaps deserves to be.
1:09.2	And what caused you to think about writing it and what did it take to actually write it,
1:14.4	given that there's not a lot of other biographies of the man?
1:18.0	Indeed, I think it's the only one.
1:20.8	Well, I came across, probably like you, I was worried after the great crash as to the problems
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