Ha-Joon Chang

The award-winning author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism outlines the real-world processes of the global economy while explaining how to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of key economics theories to better navigate today's interconnected world.

Economics: The User's Guide

The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

Bad Samaritans

What is economics? What can - and can't - it explain about the world? Why does it matter? Ha-Joon Chang teaches economics at Cambridge University, and writes a column for the Guardian. The Observer called his book 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, which was a no.1 bestseller, 'a witty and timely debunking of some of the biggest myths surrounding the global economy.' He won the Wassily Leontief Prize for advancing the frontiers of economic thought, and is a vocal critic of the failures of our current economic system.

The User's Guide

Economics

A response to The World Is Flat challenges beliefs about free trade, globalization, and economic justice to provide a contrarian history of global capitalism, revealing how top-level economies achieved their wealth through less ethical practices that victimized the developing world.

How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development. His conclusions are compelling and disturbing: that developed countries are attempting to 'kick away the ladder' with which they have climbed to the top, thereby preventing developing countries from adopting policies and institutions that they themselves have used.

Development Strategy in Historical Perspective

Kicking Away the Ladder

'This Cambridge professor delights in paradox. And myth-busting . . . he does this with charm and a desire to see how things work in the real world' Guardian, 'In Praise of Ha-Joon Chang' In this revelatory book, Ha-Joon Chang destroys the biggest myths of our times and shows us the truth about how the world really works, including: there's no such thing as a free market; the washing machine has changed lives more than the internet; people in poor countries are more entrepreneurial than in wealthy ones; and making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer. 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

23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism

23 rzeczy, ktorych nie mowia ci o kapitalizmie

Twenty-Three Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism

Ilene Grabel

Robert H. Wade

An Alternative Economic Policy Manual

Reclaiming Development

A Hungry Economist Explains the World

Edible Economics

Bob Rowthorn

They explain the growing disenchantment with the Neo-Liberal, anti-interventionist programme - even in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, where the initial optimism in the efficacy of the free market is fading fast.

The Role of the State in Economic Change

Una lectura que probablemente pondrá en duda algunos «hechos» históricos que creíamos conocer y que, por lo tanto, transformará nuestra manera de entender el capitalismo. La economía es demasiado importante para dejarla en manos de los economistas. En este irreverente ensayo, Ha-Joon Chang, una de las diez personas más influyentes del mundo según la revista Time, nos narra una «breve» historia del capitalismo, otorgándonos las herramientas necesarias para poder comprender plenamente los fenómenos económicos contemporáneos.

Una breve historia del capitalismo (Flash Ensayo)

A creative and fun smorgasbord of economics through the lens of food from one of today's foremost thinkers What can the anchovy tell us about industrialization? How can we understand inequality through chicken or the welfare state through rye? In Edible Economics, leading economist Ha-Joon Chang uses everyday food and ingredients to teach us about the most important economic issues of our time. Through familiar foods, from pasta to Coca-Cola to coffee, Chang weaves together impressive arguments and adds needed clarity to describe how our economies function and falter. With each ingredient, condiment or beverage, he constructs a vivid narrative that grapples with the most pressing concerns of our global markets, supply systems, and more. Through rich anecdotes and surprising histories, Chang shows us how acorns can prove that culture is not as important as we think in determining economic outcomes or how milk contradicts the notion that competition is the only way to ensure economic efficiency and growth. Accessible, entertaining and fresh, Edible Economics is a journey through economic theory and practice--one that is as digestible as it is profound.

Manual para entender la economía de forma crítica. ¿Qué es la economía? ¿Por qué importa? ¿Qué puede -y qué no puede- explicar acerca del mundo? La economía es demasiado importante para dejarla en manos de los economistas. Por eso, en esta irreverente introducción, Ha Joon Chang presenta las distintas teorías económicas con las fortalezas y las debilidades de cada una, y explica porqué no hay una sola manera de explicar el comportamiento de la economía. Tras su exitoso 23 cosas que no te cuentan sobre el capitalismo, el prestigioso economista de Cambridge desmonta los tópicos existentes y expone la diversidad de fuerzas que juegan un papel en la economía. Así nos otorga las herramientas necesarias para entender un mundo cada vez más global e interconectado que a menudo obedece los dictados económicos. Desde el futuro del euro, la desigualdad en China o el estado de la industria americana, Economía, manual de usuario es una guía concisa y amena a los fundamentos económicos que ofrece un retrato claro y completo de la economía global y de cómo influye en nuestra vida cotidiana.

Economía para el 99% de la población

This title represents the most forward thinking and comprehensive review of development economics currently available.

Rethinking Development Economics

East Asia's development experience, at least until its crisis in 1997, has been a source of hope for other countries in the South. And in modern economic theory, it has been at the centre of the debate about how the role of the state relates to processes of intentional economic progress.

The Miracle, the Crisis and the Future

The East Asian Development Experience

Ha-Joon Chang evaluates the role of the state in economics and development. In this collection of essays, he reviews theories and practices of state intervention as they have developed over two centuries of modern capitalism. He develops an institutionalist approach to the role of the state in economic change, and examines the issues involved in particular settings including industrial policy, trade policy, intellectual property rights, regulation, and strategies towards transnational corporations. He mounts a sophisticated theoretical and historical case for the continuing essential and constructive roles which the state can and must play in economic development.

Globalisation, Economic Development & the Role of the State

The authors of this book challenge prevailing ideas about free markets and globalization. They question whether globalization is a technological reality that cannot be stopped and ask if the US economy really outperformed its competitors in the 1990s. They show how in each key area--trade and industrial policy, privatization, intellectual property rights, investment and financial policies, exchange rate and currency policy, labour and social welfare --there are alternatives to neoliberal policies that the historical experience of particular countries prove really works.

Un libro útil para los que buscan ideas concretas en materia de política que fomente el debate sobre cómo pueden reivindicar las políticas de desarrollo aquellos que buscan promover un crecimiento económico rápido, equitativo, estable y sostenible.

Reivindicar el desarrollo

Edmund Amann

The two countries had very different models of industrialization and adopted contrasting approaches to trade and market reform. This book analyses the factors underlying the economic crises in South Korea and Brazil, pointing out the areas of similarity and divergence. It also reviews the paths of recovery taken by both economies, examining the role of policy and variations in structural characteristics.

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