Leo F Goodstadt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1511557 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leo F Goodstadt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leo F |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodstadt |
| SIGNATURE | GOODSTADT L F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hong Kong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A City Mismanaged
A City Mismanaged traces the collapse of good governance in Hong Kong, explains its causes, and exposes the damaging impact on the community’s quality of life. Leo Goodstadt argues that the current well-being and future survival of Hong Kong have been threatened by disastrous policy decisions made by chief executives and their principal officials. Individual chapters look at the most shocking examples of mismanagement: the government’s refusal to…
Poverty in the Midst of Affluence
Poverty in the Midst of Affluence
Hong Kong is among the richest cities in the world. Yet over the past 15 years, living conditions for the average family have deteriorated despite a robust economy, ample budget surpluses, and record labour productivity. Successive governments have been reluctant to invest in services for the elderly, the disabled, the long-term sick, and the poor, while education has become more elitist. The political system has helped to entrench a mistaken con…
Poverty in the Midst of Affluence
Hong Kong is among the richest cities in the world. Yet over the past 15 years living conditions for the average family have deteriorated despite a robust economy, ample budget surpluses and record labor productivity. Successive governments have been reluctant to invest in services for the elderly, the disabled, the long-term sick, and the poor, while education has become more elitist. The political system has helped to entrench a mistaken consen…
Fiscal freedom and the making of Hong Kong's capitalist society
Fiscal autonomy is a defining principle of China's arrangements for Hong Kong's postcolonial administration and was a major feature of British rule before 1997. This article begins with a discussion of how this colony achieved unusual freedom from London's usual oversight of colonial governments. After rejecting Colonial Office demands for a modern income tax, Hong Kong stuck to the principle of "low tax, small government," defying London's repea…
Taxation and Economic Modernization in Contemporary China
Profits, Politics and Panics
Between 1935 and 1985, Hong Kong’s growth seemed unstoppable. The economy flourished despite wars, revolution and Western protectionism to emerge as a world-class manufacturing exporter and an international financial centre. Yet, for bankers, these were troubled years, with bank runs, corporate scandals and the 1983 currency collapse. The crises were avoidable and caused by government blunders as well as the banks’ mismanagement. This book offers…
Uneasy Partners
In Uneasy Partners, Leo Goodstadt draws on his vast experience of government and business in Hong Kong to put forward a provocative and challenging account, part praise, part indictment, of how government and business in Hong Kong transformed a poor refugee community into one of the world's great cities and created a hugely successful economy. The core of the book is a penetrating appraisal of the often paradoxical partnership between government …
Hong Kong
Contrary to the intentions of the Chinese government and despite appearances the May 1998 elections for Hong Kong's legislature failed to destroy the voters’ attachment to political parties and to individuals committed to democratic reform. The outcome made it impossible for the government to maintain a minimalist role in managing Hong Kong's response to the major economic upheavals facing the entire region and within a month forced the introduct…
China's One-Child Family
Despite evidence of opposition to official population policies the government decided to adopt the 1 child family as its goal in 1979. This paper explores the economic social and demographic conditions that led to the decision. Official intentions and public response as recorded in journals newspapers and official radio broadcasts are assessed and some of the implications for socioeconomic development of successful promulgation of such a policy a…
Democracy and development
Race, refugees and rice
Official Targets, Data, and Policies for China's Population Growth
In China a poor nation with an essentially rural economy the central government does not release demographic data. However provincial statistics on the residents of major administrative units provide a reasonable view of some broad characteristics of the Chinese population and these local data seem to be more accurate than the national figures quoted by the central administration. Data on population growth and its primary componenets are publishe…
Democracy v. Dynasties
The overseas Chinese
China's One-Child Family
Despite evidence of opposition to official population policies the government decided to adopt the 1 child family as its goal in 1979. This paper explores the economic social and demographic conditions that led to the decision. Official intentions and public response as recorded in journals newspapers and official radio broadcasts are assessed and some of the implications for socioeconomic development of successful promulgation of such a policy a…
Fiscal freedom and the making of Hong Kong's capitalist society
Fiscal autonomy is a defining principle of China's arrangements for Hong Kong's postcolonial administration and was a major feature of British rule before 1997. This article begins with a discussion of how this colony achieved unusual freedom from London's usual oversight of colonial governments. After rejecting Colonial Office demands for a modern income tax, Hong Kong stuck to the principle of "low tax, small government," defying London's repea…
The overseas Chinese
Democracy v. Dynasties
Race, refugees and rice
Official Targets, Data, and Policies for China's Population Growth
In China a poor nation with an essentially rural economy the central government does not release demographic data. However provincial statistics on the residents of major administrative units provide a reasonable view of some broad characteristics of the Chinese population and these local data seem to be more accurate than the national figures quoted by the central administration. Data on population growth and its primary componenets are publishe…
Democracy and development
China's One-Child Family
Despite evidence of opposition to official population policies the government decided to adopt the 1 child family as its goal in 1979. This paper explores the economic social and demographic conditions that led to the decision. Official intentions and public response as recorded in journals newspapers and official radio broadcasts are assessed and some of the implications for socioeconomic development of successful promulgation of such a policy a…
Hong Kong
Contrary to the intentions of the Chinese government and despite appearances the May 1998 elections for Hong Kong's legislature failed to destroy the voters’ attachment to political parties and to individuals committed to democratic reform. The outcome made it impossible for the government to maintain a minimalist role in managing Hong Kong's response to the major economic upheavals facing the entire region and within a month forced the introduct…
Uneasy Partners
In Uneasy Partners, Leo Goodstadt draws on his vast experience of government and business in Hong Kong to put forward a provocative and challenging account, part praise, part indictment, of how government and business in Hong Kong transformed a poor refugee community into one of the world's great cities and created a hugely successful economy. The core of the book is a penetrating appraisal of the often paradoxical partnership between government …
Profits, Politics and Panics
Between 1935 and 1985, Hong Kong’s growth seemed unstoppable. The economy flourished despite wars, revolution and Western protectionism to emerge as a world-class manufacturing exporter and an international financial centre. Yet, for bankers, these were troubled years, with bank runs, corporate scandals and the 1983 currency collapse. The crises were avoidable and caused by government blunders as well as the banks’ mismanagement. This book offers…
Taxation and Economic Modernization in Contemporary China
Fiscal freedom and the making of Hong Kong's capitalist society
Fiscal autonomy is a defining principle of China's arrangements for Hong Kong's postcolonial administration and was a major feature of British rule before 1997. This article begins with a discussion of how this colony achieved unusual freedom from London's usual oversight of colonial governments. After rejecting Colonial Office demands for a modern income tax, Hong Kong stuck to the principle of "low tax, small government," defying London's repea…
Poverty in the Midst of Affluence
Hong Kong is among the richest cities in the world. Yet over the past 15 years living conditions for the average family have deteriorated despite a robust economy, ample budget surpluses and record labor productivity. Successive governments have been reluctant to invest in services for the elderly, the disabled, the long-term sick, and the poor, while education has become more elitist. The political system has helped to entrench a mistaken consen…
Poverty in the Midst of Affluence
Hong Kong is among the richest cities in the world. Yet over the past 15 years, living conditions for the average family have deteriorated despite a robust economy, ample budget surpluses, and record labour productivity. Successive governments have been reluctant to invest in services for the elderly, the disabled, the long-term sick, and the poor, while education has become more elitist. The political system has helped to entrench a mistaken con…
Poverty in the Midst of Affluence
A City Mismanaged
A City Mismanaged traces the collapse of good governance in Hong Kong, explains its causes, and exposes the damaging impact on the community’s quality of life. Leo Goodstadt argues that the current well-being and future survival of Hong Kong have been threatened by disastrous policy decisions made by chief executives and their principal officials. Individual chapters look at the most shocking examples of mismanagement: the government’s refusal to…
Political science (14 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · China (4 works) · china (4 works) · hong kong (4 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (4 works) · Political economy (4 works)