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Author: Ha-Joon Chang
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 14.10cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 20.70cm
Weight: 0.272kg
ISBN: 9781608193387
ISBN 10: 1608193381
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 24 January 2012
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
<p> Chang, befitting his position as an economics professor at Cambridge University, is engagingly thoughtful and opinionated at a much lower decibel level. 'The truths peddled by free-market ideologues are based on lazy assumptions and blinkered visions, ' he charges. -- Time <p> Chang presents an enlightening precis of modern economic thought--and all the places it's gone wrong, urging us to act in order to completely rebuild the world economy: 'This will [make] some readers uncomfortable...[;] it is time to get uncomfortable.' --Publishers Weekly <p> Myth-busting and nicely-written collection of essays --Independent (UK)<p> Shaking Economics 101 assumptions to the core ... Eminently accessible, with a clearly liberal (or at least anticonservative) bent, but with surprises along the way--for one, the thought that markets need to become less rather than more efficient. -- Kirkus Reviews <p> For anyone who wants to understand capitalism not as economists or politicians have picture
"""Chang, befitting his position as an economics professor at Cambridge University, is engagingly thoughtful and opinionated at a much lower decibel level."" - Time ""Chang presents an enlightening précis of modern economic thought-and all the places it's gone wrong, urging us to act in order to completely rebuild the world economy"" - Publishers Weekly ""I doubt there is one book, written in response to the current economic crisis, that is as fun or easy to read as Ha-Joon Chang's 23 Things They Don't Tell you About Capitalism."" - AlterNet Executive Editor Don Hazen ""Myth-busting and nicely-written collection of essays."" - Independent (UK) ""A lively, accessible and provocative book."" - Sunday Times (UK)"
Author Information
Ha-Joon Chang was born in Seoul, South Korea, and teaches Economics and Development Studies at the University of Cambridge. His books include the international bestseller Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism, Kicking Away the Ladder, winner of the Myrdal Prize, and 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism. Chang was awarded the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. He lives in Cambridge with his wife, Hee-Jeong Kim, and two children, Yuna, and Jin-Gyu.
