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Sir John James Cowperthwaite – brytyjski działacz państwowy, wysoki urzędnik administracji Hongkongu.

Uczęszczał do Merchiston Castle School w Edynburgu, studiował następnie nauki ekonomiczne na St Andrews University i University of Cambridge. W 1941 podjął pracę w administracji kolonialnej w Hongkongu, przed 1945 pewien czas spędził również w Sierra Leone. Po powrocie do Hongkongu zajmował się problematyką gospodarczą, w latach 1961–1971 pełnił funkcję sekretarza ds. finansów . Jako zwolennik wolnego handlu przyczynił się do rozwoju gospodarczego Hongkongu. W 1971 został doradcą banku inwestycyjnego Jardine Fleming w Hongkongu. Powrócił do Wielkiej Brytanii w 1981.

Za wieloletnią pracę w administracji państwowej został odznaczony m.in. Orderem Imperium Brytyjskiego i Orderem Św. Michała i Św. Jerzego , a w 1968 otrzymał tytuł szlachecki „Sir”. Od 1941 był żonaty , miał jednego syna . Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Kwiecień 1915 – 21. Styczeń 2006
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John James Cowperthwaite: Cytaty po angielsku

“Economists of the modern school will no doubt protest that I have said nothing of the use of budget deficits or surpluses for the control of the economy in general. I doubt if such techniques would ever be appropriate in Hong Kong's exposed economic position; and I think they are certainly not appropriate at present, when in strict orthodoxy they would suggest the need to plan for a very substantial surplus "to take the heat out of the economy". Although we have in fact run substantial surpluses in recent years we have not done so with deflationary effect because we have not removed them from the economy but have left them inside the Colony's banking system to continue to work for the economy. $500 million or 55% of reserves are so held at present.”

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February 26, 1964, page 47.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council

“I cannot myself believe that anyone in this Chamber, and very few in the community as a whole, would wish to reverse all our previous policies and choose stabilization rather than growth; and it would certainly go contrary to the other views expressed by honourable Members about the need to promote the further growth of trade and industry. Not only would we be fore-going the creation of additional wealth and what this can bring, and has brought, in social advance, but we would also, I believe, permanently damage that climate of economic activity which has taken us so far and so fast. This would be particularly unwise, I suggest, in the face of those relatively darker clouds referred to by Your Excellency.”

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October 9, 1970, page 114.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council

“What gives me concern in so much of the comment is the implication that the people of Hong Kong have to be given a reward, like children, for being good last year, and bribed, like children, into being good next year. I myself repudiate this paternalistic, indeed colonialist, attitude as a gross insult to our people”

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March 27, 1968, page 215.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council

“I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that, as all example shows, is the surest precursor of high taxation.”

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March 24, 1966, page 213.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council

“There was a plea from honourable Members relating to the need for formal Gross National Product figures. Such figures are very inexact even in the most sophisticated countries I think they do not have a great deal of meaning, even as a basis of comparison between economies. That other countries make use of them is not, I think, necessarily a good reason to suppose that we need them. But, although I am not entirely clear what practical purpose they would serve in Hong Kong, I am sure they would be of interest. I suspect myself, however, that the need arises in other countries because high taxation and more or less detailed Government intervention in the economy have made it essential to be able to judge (or to hope to be able to judge) the effect of policies, and of changes in policies, on the economy. One of the honourable Members who spoke on this subject, said outright, as a confirmed planner, that he thought that they were desirable for the planning of our future economic policy. But we are in the happy position, happier at least for the Financial Secretary where the leverage exercised by Government on the economy is so small that it is not necessary, nor even of any particular value, to have these figures available for the formulation of policy. We might indeed be right to be apprehensive lest the availability of such figures might lead, by a reversal of cause and effect, to policies designed to have a direct effect on the economy. I would myself deplore this.”

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March 25, 1970, page 495.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council

“I largely agree with those that hold that Government should not in general interfere with the course of the economy merely on the strength of its own commercial judgment. If we cannot rely on the judgment of individual businessmen, taking their own risks, we have no future anyway.”

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March 24, 1966, page 215.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council

“Deficit financing proper is rather the process whereby a Government spends more money that it withdraws from the economy by taxation, borrowing, running down reserves, etc.; thereby causing in most circumstances, and very acutely in ours, monetary inflation and severe pressure on the balance of payments.”

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March 29, 1967, page 249.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council

“One of the things that most surprises me about my honourable Friend’s remarks is that he characterizes his proposal for state intervention in, and control of, industry as “innovation and a spirit of adventure” and condemns free private enterprise as “prosaic precedent”. This is a strange paradox. I would put it precisely the other way round. What he advocates is based on the “prosaic precedent” of many of our rivals who have to resort to wooing industry with artificial aids and have had remarkably little success at it. Recent events have shown that enterprising spirits still prefer our economic freedom to the restrictive swaddling clothes offered elsewhere. Possibly I am a romantic in this but I, for one, do not believe that our spirit of adventure is in need of artificial stimulation — nor do I believe that we can afford the wasteful application of our scarce resources which they would entail—we are neither desperate enough, nor rich enough, for such expedients to make economic sense. It is, of course, all the fashion today to cry in any commercial difficulty, “why doesn’t the Government do something about it.””

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But I would rather go back to the old days when even the most modest attempt by Government to intervene in commerce and industry was rudely rebuffed.
March 27, 1968, page 213.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council

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