A veritable smorgasboard of top economists has signed a letter calling upon Congress to increase the budget for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, reversing the cuts of recent years. There's people there ...

The end of last week should have seen the jobs report, the updating of the number of those in employment and unemployment. We didn't get it because of the government shutdown. Non-essential activities ...

More data makes for better economic policy, right? Lessons from 20th-century India and Hong Kong suggest the opposite is true. Sir John Cowperthwaite was Hong Kong’s financial secretary from 1961-71 ...

The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from ...

I recently came across a marvelous book, Neil Monnery’s “Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong,” a biography of Hong Kong’s financial secretary, who introduced ...

At some point Michael Bloomberg was unemployed. He first lost a job in finance, then he became "unemployed" again even though he was working. How? Upon losing his job, Bloomberg essentially created an ...

Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong. By Neil Monnery. London Publishing Partnership; 337 pages; £24.50. DURING the 1960s, governments were responding to ...

With presidential candidates vying for the best economic policy, perhaps they should take a page out of the book of John James Cowperthwaite, the hero of Hong Kong’s economic policy that has made them ...

Regarding William McGurn's "Go for Bust, Mr. Romney" (Main Street, Aug. 14): Perhaps the most estimable example of Sir John Cowperthwaite's intransigence occurred when a Hong Kong newspaper accused ...