23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism

by Ha-JoonChang (Author)

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  Paperback
  2012

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  Paperback
  2011

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  Ha-Joon Chang's 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism turns received economic wisdom on its head to show you how the world really works. In this revelatory book, Ha-Joon Chang destroys the biggest myths of our times and shows us an alternative view of the world, including: there's no such thing as a 'free' market Globalization isn't making the world richer; we don't live in a digital world - the washing machine has changed lives more than the internet; poor countries are more entrepreneurial than rich ones; higher paid managers don't produce better results; and we don't have to accept things as they are any longer. Ha-Joon Chang is here to show us there's a better way. Lively, accessible and provocative ...read this book . (Sunday Times). A witty and timely debunking of some of the biggest myths surrounding the global economy .( Observer ). The new kid on the economics block...Chang's iconoclastic attitude has won him fans . (Independent on Sunday). Lucid ...audacious ...increasingly influential ...will provoke physical symptoms of revulsion if you are in any way involved in high finance . ( Guardian ). Important ...persuasive ...an engaging case for a more caring era of globalization . ( Financial Times ). A must-read ...incisive and entertaining . ( New Statesman Books of the Year ). Ha-Joon Chang is a Reader in the Political Economy of Development at the University of Cambridge. He is author of Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective , which won the 2003 Gunnar Myrdal Prize, and Bad Samaritans: Rich Nations , Poor Policies and the Threat to the Developing World . Since the beginning of the 2008 economic crisis, he has been a regular contributor to the Guardian , and a vocal critic of the failures of our economic system.