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Sir John James Cowperthwaite, KBE, CMG (Chinese: 郭伯偉爵士; 25 April 1915 – 21 January 2006), was a British civil servant who served as Financial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1961 to 1971.
Feb 10, 2014 · The name of Sir John James Cowperthwaite (1915–2006) should forever occupy top shelf in the pantheon of great libertarians. Some of us just write about libertarian ideas. This guy actually made them public policy for millions of citizens.
Sir John Cowperthwaite was the main figure responsible for Hong Kong's economic transformation, lifting millions of people out of poverty. While Friedman and Hayek put an intellectual case for the free markets, Cowperthwaite provided the textbook example showing laissez-faire policies leading to swift economic development.
Jul 19, 2010 · Time to introduce a hero of the Right throughout the world, the architect of the Hong Kong Economic Miracle, Sir John James Cowperthwaite: I'm happy to say that, like Charles Darwin, he was a graduate of my college at Cambridge.
Nov 13, 2019 · One of them was a quiet, determined and deeply principled Scotsman by the name of John James Cowperthwaite. In 1945, after four years of harrowing martial law, Hong Kong was starving and...
Sir John James Cowperthwaite, KBE, CMG, was a British civil servant who served as Financial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1961 to 1971. His introduction of free market economic policies are widely credited with turning postwar Hong Kong into a thriving global financial centre.
Oct 1, 2022 · Hong Kong has shown the economic growth potential of a free economy. The 2017 Economist review of a book by Neil Monnery on John Cowperthwaite, the British civil servant who administered the British territory from 1945 to 1971, is required reading.
