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Characteristics of Chinese Technology Companies
August, 2021
China’s economy is often described internally as “socialism with Chinese characteristics”. Its stock market, largely driven by the large technology companies, can also be described using such idiosyncratic phrasing. The large Chinese tech companies are not quite like the tech companies in America, Europe or anywhere else. They come with their own unique characteristics. The […]
The Advantages of Backwardness and the Opportunities in Change
July, 2021
In Saffron Walden, where one of our colleagues lives, there is a broken and battered old building next to the common emblazoned with the word “GASWORKS” and underneath dated 1836. Victorian England was lit by gas. Gas mantles were used in domestic houses until the late 1940s and early 1950s when the post-war slum clearances […]