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."