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Author Puig, Gonzalo Villalta

Title The Freest Market in the World The Constitutional Logic of Economic Liberty in China's Hong Kong
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (203 p.)
Series Routledge Research in International Economic Law Ser
Routledge Research in International Economic Law Ser
Contents Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- About the Authors -- Forewords -- The Right Honourable the Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury -- Professor Albert HY Chen -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Concept of Free Market Constitutionalism in Hong Kong under Chinese Sovereignty -- China's Hong Kong as the World's Freest Market Economy -- Theory and Thought of Free Market Constitutionalism -- Structure of Argument -- 2. The Victorian Origins and Hayekian Development of Hong Kong's Free Market Constitutionalism
Introduction -- Hong Kong's Victorian Constitution -- Rule of Law and Judicial Independence -- Constitutional Convention of Laissez-Faire -- Conclusion -- 3. The Codification of Free Market Constitutionalism in the Hong Kong Basic Law -- Introduction -- Context and Content of the Sino-British Joint Declaration -- Drafting and Consultation of the Basic Law -- Codifying the 'One Country, Two Systems' Principle -- The Classical Liberal Economic Constitution within the Basic Law -- The Classical Liberal Economic Constitution within the Basic Law
The Chinese Constitution as the Ultimate Legal Foundation of the Hong Kong Basic Law -- Conclusion -- 4. The Interpretation and Application of Free Market Constitutionalism in the Hong Kong Basic Law -- Introduction -- Right to Property -- Interpretation and Application -- Right to Compensation for Lawful Deprivation of Property -- Right to the Acquisition, Use, Disposal and Inheritance of Property -- Protection of the Ownership of Enterprises and the Investments from Outside the Region -- Right of Private Ownership of Property -- Freedom of Choice of Occupation -- Public Finance
Independent Finances -- The Principle of Keeping Expenditure within the Limits of Revenues -- Low Tax Policy and Independent Taxation System -- The Legislative Council Exercises the Power and Function to Examine and Approve Budgets and to Approve Taxation and Public Expenditure -- Private Finance -- Status as an International Financial Centre -- Free Operation of Financial Business and Financial Markets -- Free Flow of Capital -- Monetary Affairs -- Trade -- Status of a Free Port -- Policy of Free Trade and the Free Movement of Goods -- Separate Customs Territory -- Own Certificates of Origin
Travel -- Shipping and Aviation -- Freedom of Movement: Freedom of Emigration and Freedom to Travel -- Industries and Trades -- On the Justiciability of the Basic Law as an Economic Constitution -- Conclusion -- 5. Free Market Constitutionalism and Hong Kong's Internal Economic Policy -- Introduction -- Economic Philosophy of the Chief Executives -- Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa -- Chief Executive Donald Tsang -- Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying -- Chief Executive Carrie Lam -- Chief Executive John Lee -- Economic Jurisprudence of the Courts -- Conclusion
Notes Description based upon print version of record
6. Free Market Constitutionalism and Hong Kong's External Economic Policy
Subject Hong Kong (China). Xianggang Tebie Xingzhengqu ji ben fa.
SUBJECT Xianggang Tebie Xingzhengqu ji ben fa (Hong Kong (China)) fast
Subject Constitutional law -- Economic aspects -- China -- Hong Kong
Constitutional law -- Economic aspects
Economic policy
SUBJECT Hong Kong (China) -- Economic policy
Subject China -- Hong Kong
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Ip, Eric C
ISBN 1000823989
9781000823981