 The policy was continued by subsequent Financial Secretaries, including Sir Philip Haddon-Cave, who said that "positive non-interventionism involves taking the view that it is normally futile and damaging to the growth rate of an economy, particularly an open economy, for the Government to attempt to plan the allocation of resources available to the private sector and to frustrate the operation of market forces," although he stated that the description of Hong Kong as a laissez-faire society was "frequent but inadequate".Milton Friedman wrote in 1990 that the Hong Kong economy was perhaps the best example of a free market economy.Shortly before his death in 2006, the "Wall Street Journal" published his "Hong Kong Wrong – What would Cowperthwaite say?"