Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
Author: Ha-Joon Chang
Translator: Soon-hee Lee
Publisher: Bookie
384 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
"Lucid, deeply informed, and enlivened with striking illustrations, this
penetrating study could be entitled 'Economics in the Real World.' Chang
reveals the yawning gap between standard doctrines concerning economic
development and what really has taken place from the origins of the
industrial revolution until today. His incisive analysis shows how, and
why, prescriptions based on reigning doctrines have caused severe harm,
particularly to the most vulnerable and defenseless, and are likely to
continue to do so."--Noam Chomsky
Using irreverent wit, an engagingly personal style, and a battery of
examples, Chang blasts holes in the ¡°World I s Flat¡± orthodoxy of Thomas
Friedman and other liberal economists who argue that only unfettered
capitalism and wide-open international trade can lift struggling nations
out of poverty. On the contrary, Chang shows, today¡¯s economic
superpowers—from the U .S. to Britain to his native Korea—all attained
prosperity by shameless protectionism and government intervention in
industry. We have conveniently forgotten this fact, telling ourselves a
fairy tale about the magic of free trade and—via our proxies such as the
World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade
Organization—ramming policies that suit ourselves down the throat of the
developing world.
Ha-Joon Chang has taught at the Faculty of Economics, University of
Cambridge, since 1990. He has consulted for numerous international
organizations, including the U nited Nations, the World Bank, and the
Asian Development Bank. He has published eleven books, including Kicking
Away the Ladder, winner of the 2003 Myrdal Prize. In 2005, Chang was
awarded the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic
Thought.
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