Socialism Begins at Home The other day, I was talking to a young woman who’d run away from home when she was 16. “Why did you run away?” I asked her. “Because I wanted to be free,” she answered. And after a moment added: “Everyone wants to be free.” Do they? I wonder. Like this…
Details“Monster” versus “Shadow” This is a commentary on the session with “Andrew” documented in Transforming the “Monster” Within. The shadow cannot be eliminated. It is the ever-present dark brother or sister.(1) “Shadow” is a term from Jungian psychology, and it seems appropriate to call Andrew’s Monster his Shadow part. However, had we taken a Jungian approach…
DetailsTransforming the “Monster” Within In 1990 I set up shop in Hong Kong as a psycho-therapist. With no licencing laws, there were no barriers to entry. By the same token, the fact that I had no degree in psychology, or other paper qualifications, meant that clients were few and far between. Nevertheless, I had a…
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Give Me Liberty is a collection of classic science fiction stories I co-edited with Martin H. Greenberg. It was published by Baen Books in January 2003
DetailsUntil the 1990s, there was next to no unemployment in Hong Kong. Here’s why.
And why, today, there is
DetailsFloat the Hong Kong Dollar? Wait a minute…I want to sell it short first! When the Thai baht collapsed in July 1997 other Asian currencies fell like dominoes. Only the Hong Kong dollar and the Chinese yuan remained standing. The voices calling for the Hong Kong dollar’s “peg” to the US dollar to be abandoned became…
DetailsHong Kong’s Money Panic Around midday on Friday September 23rd, 1983, the latest round of Sino-British talks in Peking on the subject of Hong Kong’s future concluded. Very quickly it became apparent in Hong Kong that no progress had been made. The announcements that were were no announcements sparked a run on the Hong Kong…
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In the run-up to the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997, I was often asked my views on Hong Kong’s future. This article, written in 1991, was my response.
DetailsWorried about the H5N1 bird flu virus causing a pandemic?
To go by the media, you should be.
But study the scientific evidence and you can only conclude that the media scare is mostly hype.
How the free market freed women
and entrepreneurs in Hong Kong
