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 & 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 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 & provocative read this book' Sunday Times 'A witty & 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 & 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 & Bad Samaritans Rich Nations Poor Policies & the Threat to the Developing World Since the beginning of the 2008 economic crisis he has been a regular contributor to the Guardian & a vocal critic of the failures of our economic system