23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

Chang, Ha-Joon

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9781501266300: 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

ISBN 10: 1501266306 ISBN 13: 9781501266300

Publisher: Brilliance Audio, 2015

The acclaimed Ha-Joon Chang is a voice of sanity—and wit—in this lighthearted audiobook with a serious purpose: to question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the dominant school of neoliberal economists have spun since the Age of Reagan.23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism uses twenty-three short essays (a few great examples: “There Is No Such Thing as a Free Market,” “The Washing Machine Has Changed the World More than the Internet Has”) to equip listeners with an understanding of how global capitalism works, and doesn’t, while offering a vision of how we can shape capitalism to humane ends, instead of becoming slaves of the market.

Praise for 23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism:

“A lively, accessible and provocative book.” —Sunday Times (UK)

“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

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Review:

Leading economist [Ha-Joon Chang] has likened the nation's acceptance of free-market capitalism to that of the brainwashed characters in the film The Matrix, unwitting pawns in a fake reality. [Chang] debunks received wisdom on everything (Rachel Shields Independent)

A masterful debunking of some of the myths of capitalism ... Witty, iconoclastic and uncommonly commonsensical ... this book will be invaluable (John Gray Observer)

Lively and provocative book ... Read this book (David Smith Sunday Times)

Incisive and entertaining ... scathing about the conventional wisdom' (Robert Skidelsky New Statesman)

Important .. persuasive ... [an] engaging case for a more cautious and caring era of globalisation (James Crabtree Financial Times)

Myth-busting and nicely-written ... the best economists are those who look around at our man-made world and ask themselves "why?". Chang is one (Sean O'Grady Independent)

About the Author:

Born in South Korea, Ha-Joon Chang is a specialist in development economics and Reader in the Political Economy of Development at the University of Cambridge. In 2005, Chang was awarded the Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. He is author of Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (2002), which won the 2003 Gunnar Myrdal Prize, and Bad Samaritans: Rich Nations, Poor Policies and the Threat to the Developing World (2007).

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