20 May 2019

Lion Rock Student Event – For Students

The Lion Rock Institute is organizing this student talk on May 27, 2019. This event is co-hosted by Hong Kong Institute of Economics and Business Strategy of HKU, and The Hong Kong Centre for Economic Research and is ideal for interested students in Economics, Policics, History and the Extended Essay.

Inequality is an extremely important topic. The Lion Rock Institute would like to shine a completely different light on the common narrative.

We have all been told that increasing government intervention is justified because it is necessary to combat the “inequality” in our society. Yaron Brook challenges us to question the belief that “inequality is bad”; he even goes one step further and claims it is a desired outcome in a free society!Yaron argues that wealth stagnation is a myth used to justify increasing governmental powers.

Looking at the “income inequality” problem however, it echos with the single biggest complaint of the people in Hong Kong (and many other places), that housing prices has become “unaffordable” to most.

And this “inequality” is seen as the direct result of inflation caused by the global quantitative easing.

So while Yaron claims that inequality caused by ordinary business success should be celebrated, this inequality caused by inflation has benefited one group at the expense of others.

We have invited Yaron to address this contrast. We welcome you and your students to join this talk and participate in the discussion.

Please sign up now as seats are limited!Date: Monday May 27, 2019

Time: Room at 19:00

Speech at 19:30, to be followed by Q&A

Location: Room LG109, KK Leung Building, The University of Hong Kong

Payment in advance is necessary in order to complete your registration

To sign-up, please click this link, or simply reply to this email, or email Laurence at laurence.pak@lionrockinstitute.org. You can also call us at 3911 1290.

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