ARNOLD KLING
August 14, 2011
The Top Political Contributors
August 11, 2011
Gender and the New Commanding Heights
August 11, 2011
Jamie Galbraith Makes an Assumption
August 11, 2011
Macroeconometrics: The Science of Hubris
August 10, 2011
Real and Nominal Bond Yields
BRYAN CAPLAN
August 14, 2011
The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
August 12, 2011
The Voice of Cold, Hard Truth to All Would-Be Educators
August 12, 2011
Ability, Morality, and Prosperity: A Paper and a Report
August 11, 2011
The Theory of Time and Frittering
August 10, 2011
Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
DAVID HENDERSON
August 9, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken", Part Two
August 8, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken"
August 5, 2011
James Bovard on the Peace Corps
August 4, 2011
Summers Way Off on FDR and 1941
August 3, 2011
The "Amazon" Tax
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But surely all the ex-pats came to Hong Kong because they prefer life there to life at home. It shouldn't have taken a marketing genius to win them over to the cause of Hong Kong liberty.
If I'm not mistaken many of the more social democratic countries in Northern Europe lack any national minimum wage. They often have negotiated minimum wages for specific sectors, but many workers are in sectors that lack any minimum wage.
Is HK now more socialist than Sweden?
More evidence that neoliberalism is tied to liberal cultural values?
I've been living in HK for about 7 months now, and I've found it to hardly the be free market paradise that many libertarians think it is. This new law is hardly the end of laissez-faire in Hong Kong compared to the long-standing government involvement in land use and housing.
But isn't Bryan suggesting that this is an opportunity for us to actually measure, in real time, the differences in their economy based on this one factor?