Frases de John James Cowperthwaite

John James Cowperthwaite era un funcionario británico y el Secretario de Finanzas de Hong Kong desde 1961 hasta 1971. Su introducción de políticas económicas de libre mercado son ampliamente acreditadas por convertir al Hong Kong de posguerra en un centro financiero mundial próspero. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. abril 1915 – 21. enero 2006
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Frases célebres de John James Cowperthwaite

“Simplemente, el dinero viene y se queda aquí porque se puede irse si así lo quiere. Si tratáramos de rodearlo de prohibiciones, se iría y no podríamos detenerlo; y no volvería jamás.”

Inversión extranjera y movimiento de capitales
Fuente: Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, March 29, 1967, page 253.

“Me permito sugerirle a mi honorable amigo que el inversionista extranjero es también desincentivado a invertir por la alta deuda pública, pues como todos los ejemplos sugieren, ésta es la más segura precursora a más impuestos.”

Inversión extranjera y movimiento de capitales
Fuente: Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, March 24, 1966, page 213.

“Un problema es que cuando el Gobierno se mete en un negocio, éste tiende a hacerlo ruinoso para todos los demás.”

Estado empresario
Fuente: Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, February 27, 1963, page 47.

“Si se consiente a una industria infante, ésta tenderá a seguir siendo una industria infante sin crecer ni expandirse.”

Proteccionismo
Fuente: Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, March 30, 1962, page 131.

John James Cowperthwaite: Frases en inglés

“Money cannot be converted into houses or trained teachers or hospitals at the touch of a magic wand.”

February 26, 1964, page 51.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council
Contexto: Money cannot be converted into houses or trained teachers or hospitals at the touch of a magic wand. There are limitations to our physical and intellectual resources.

“One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.”

February 27, 1963, page 47.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council

“I do not think that when one is speaking of hardships or benefits one can reasonably speak in terms of classes or social groups but only in terms of individuals.”

March 29, 1963, page 135.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council
Contexto: I should like to begin with a philosophical comment. I do not think that when one is speaking of hardships or benefits one can reasonably speak in terms of classes or social groups but only in terms of individuals.

“Simply put, money comes here and stays here because it can go if it wants to go.”

March 29, 1967, page 253.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council
Contexto: Simply put, money comes here and stays here because it can go if it wants to go. Try to hedge it around with prohibitions, and it would go and we could not stop it; and no more would come.

“We suffer a great deal today from the bogus certainties and precisions of the pseudo-sciences which include all the social sciences including economics.”

March 27, 1968, page 213.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council
Contexto: But what I really believe is that both he and Mr Wong are innocently guilty of the twentieth century fallacy that technology can be applied to the conduct of human affairs. They cannot believe that anything can work efficiently unless it has been programmed by a computer and have lost faith in the forces of the market and the human actions and reactions that make it up. But no computer has yet been devised which will produce accurate results from a diet of opinion and emotion. We suffer a great deal today from the bogus certainties and precisions of the pseudo-sciences which include all the social sciences including economics. An article I recently read referred to the academic’s “infernal economic arithmetic which ignores human responses”. Technology is admirable on the factory floor but largely irrelevant to human affairs.

“A glimmer of light is better than no illumination at all.”

February 26, 1964, page 52.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council

“An infant industry, if coddled, tends to remain an infant industry and never grows up or expands.”

March 30, 1962, page 131.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council

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