 Speeches and Lectures
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR KIND INTRODUCTION. I AM ALSO VERY GRATEFUL THAT SO MANY PEOPLE TOOK THE TIME FROM YOUR BUSY SCHEDULES TO COME HERE TODAY. IT IS AN HONOUR TO BE ASKED TO ADDRESS THIS DISTINGUISHED AUDIENCE, ON THE OCCASION OF THESE VERY IMPORTANT AND PRESTIGIOUS AWARDS. AS AN AUTHOR MYSELF, I NATURALLY WELCOME INITIATIVES TO REWARD AND RECOGNISE THE BEST THINKING AND WRITING, AND THIS IS ESPECIALLY WELCOME IN THE FIELD OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS.
THE TOPIC...
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Thank you very much for welcoming me here today at this distinguished symposium, especially as being in the Nikkei Hall brings back happy memories of my time as a correspondent here in Tokyo. My engagement with Japan began 23 years and one month ago, when I came to occupy an office in the part of the Nikkei building known as "gaijin corner" as the correspondent for The Economist. So I am glad to be back here again, although now in Nikkei Hall, or "symposium corner". I am also very grateful that...
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This lecture was given as the first in the University of Texas at Austin´s "distinguished speaker series" on East Asia. A webcast can be found on the LBJ School´s website.
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Thank you very much for welcoming me here today at this distinguished society. I am very grateful that so many people took time out of their busy schedules to attend this meeting, and I very much look forward to your questions later on. As a journalist, I have always believed that I learn more when I am listening than when I am speaking, so I am particularly interested in hearing your point of view and learning what questions interest you.
My subject today is Japan´s economic recovery: why...
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It is a great pleasure and honour to have been invited to take part in this symposium here in Tokyo, the city that I think of as my second home.
The topic before us is that of Japan´s potential yet to be realised. That is an infinite potential. For Japan is a great country, with a great people, full of talent, energy, intelligence and capability. No one can guess today what that potential might be. It is there to be created, by the people of Japan individually, and as a nation.
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Three years ago last Saturday, after the bright, sunny, deadly New York morning that was September 11th 2001, almost everyone agreed that the world had changed forever: nothing would be the same again.
What was really meant, for all the entirely genuine talk of unity and global fellow-feeling, was that the United States had changed. The idea was that the experience of the first attack on its mainland since my countrymen burned the Capitol in 1814, or more relevantly...
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I am very glad to be here with you, and thank you very much Anthony for that introduction and for being so very kind as to invite me to come and speak to the Business Group. I am sorry that we are a bit later than we were scheduled; that is my fault, because of the editorial schedule on the Economist for which Monday morning is particularly important. But I am very grateful to you for being flexible.
My subject is Japan´s revival. I think, like other speakers on this subject...
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YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, EXCELLENCIES, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IT IS A GREAT HONOUR AND PLEASURE TO BE ASKED TO ADDRESS THIS MOST INTERESTING AND DISTINGUISHED FORUM.
WE MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA ARE NOT ALWAYS WELCOME PARTICIPANTS IN SUCH DISCUSSIONS. INDEED, MOST SENSIBLE PEOPLE HAVE QUITE AN AMBIVALENT VIEW OF THE MEDIA.
ON THE ONE HAND, THEY ENJOY READING NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES, LISTENING TO THE RADIO, WATCHING THE TELEVISION OR USING THE INTERNET, AND THEY...
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Saving capitalism from the capitalists
It is truly a great honour to be invited to give this year´s Hayek lecture, on
all sorts of levels.
I was delighted when I got John Blundell´s letter because the Institute of
Economic Affairs has for so many years done such a marvellous and
important job of promoting the use of reason in our economic and social
policies, which means of course liberalism. It is therefore very pleasing to
be associated with it this evening....
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR KIND INTRODUCTION. I AM VERY GRATEFUL TO HIS HIGHNESS PRINCE ABDULLAH AND HIS COLLEAGUES AT THE SAUDI ARABIAN GENERAL INVESTMENT AUTHORITY FOR DOING ME THE GREAT HONOUR OF HAVING INVITED ME TO COME TO RIYADH TO DELIVER THIS LECTURE, AS WELL AS FOR ARRANGING MANY OTHER APPOINTMENTS AND INTERESTING EXPERIENCES DURING MY VISIT.
I AM ALSO VERY GRATEFUL TO ALL OF YOU, MY AUDIENCE, FOR TAKING THE TIME OUT OF YOUR BUSY SCHEDULES TO COME HERE TODAY AND...
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It is a great honour to be here tonight, at this prestigious occasion. I congratulate the Berner Tagblatt Medien group for having initiated these prizes for the best in local print journalism and for the best in photo journalism, and I of course congratulate the winners. They represent the best qualities of journalism, which makes it fitting that the task that I have been assigned is to offer some thoughts about the future of journalism, and whether such qualities can be preserved and even enhanced...
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Thank you very much, Okawara-san, for the kind introduction and for acting as my marketing manager, and thank you all for doing me the honor of having me this afternoon and helping me to return to Japan where I lived from 1983 until 1986, and which I continue to think of as my second home.
My job this afternoon is to give a personal perspective as a financial journalist, or economic journalist, as well as the professional perspective of an editor of a weekly magazine, which happens to...
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It is a great honour to be invited to give this keynote address to the Knowledge Wave conference, which is such an impressive and prestigious event. It is an especial honour to be allowed to give the address by satellite, for it is extremely generous of the organisers to make allowance for such a potentially subversive, long-distance contribution. I regret deeply that I was unable to travel to New Zealand to give this address in person, but am grateful to be given this alternative method of taking...
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