Illegal cubicle homes on the rooftop of an industrial building in Kwun Tong. The source of Hong Kong’s misery is its economic system, the wrong-headed belief that the free market alone will solve every social problem. Photo: Dickson Lee
Illegal cubicle homes on the rooftop of an industrial building in Kwun Tong. The source of Hong Kong’s misery is its economic system, the wrong-headed belief that the free market alone will solve every social problem. Photo: Dickson Lee
Graeme Maxton
Opinion

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The View by Graeme Maxton

How Hong Kong can put an end to protest chaos – it’s about the economy, so fix the deep divide

  • Hong Kong is a free market on steroids that serves the rich. As discontent over an unjust system boils over, it’s time to introduce easy policy fixes

Graeme Maxton
Graeme Maxton

Updated: 10:33pm, 5 Aug, 2019

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Illegal cubicle homes on the rooftop of an industrial building in Kwun Tong. The source of Hong Kong’s misery is its economic system, the wrong-headed belief that the free market alone will solve every social problem. Photo: Dickson Lee
Illegal cubicle homes on the rooftop of an industrial building in Kwun Tong. The source of Hong Kong’s misery is its economic system, the wrong-headed belief that the free market alone will solve every social problem. Photo: Dickson Lee
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