23 Things They Dont Tell You About Capitalism'

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._x000D_ In this revelatory book, Ha-Joon Chang destroys the biggest myths of our times and shows us an alternative view of the world, including:_x000D_ There's no such thing as a 'free' market_x000D_ Globalization isn't making the world richer_x000D_ We don't live in a digital world - the washing machine has changed lives more than the internet_x000D_ Poor countries are more entrepreneurial than rich ones_x000D_ Higher paid managers don't produce better results_x000D_ 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._x000D_ 'Lively, accessible and provocative ... read this book' - Sunday Times_x000D_ 'A witty and timely debunking of some of the biggest myths surrounding the global economy' - Observer_x000D_ 'The new kid on the economics block ... Chang's iconoclastic attitude has won him fans' - Independent on... _x000D_ 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._x000D_ In this revelatory book, Ha-Joon Chang destroys the biggest myths of our times and shows us an alternative view of the world, including:_x000D_ There's no such thing as a 'free' market_x000D_ Globalization isn't making the world richer_x000D_ We don't live in a digital world - the washing machine has changed lives more than the internet_x000D_ Poor countries are more entrepreneurial than rich ones_x000D_ Higher paid managers don't produce better results_x000D_ 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._x000D_ 'Lively, accessible and provocative ... read this book' - Sunday Times_x000D_ 'A witty and timely debunking of some of the biggest myths surrounding the global economy' - Observer_x000D_ 'The new kid on the economics block ... Chang's iconoclastic attitude has won him fans' - Independent on Sunday_x000D_ 'Lucid ... audacious ... increasingly influential ... will provoke physical symptoms of revulsion if you are in any way involved in high finance' - Guardian_x000D_ 'Important ... persuasive ... an engaging case for a more caring era of globalization' - Financial Times_x000D_ 'A must-read ... incisive and entertaining' - New Statesman Books of the Year_x000D_ 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, and Bad Samaritans: Rich Nations, Poor Policies and the Threat to the Developing World. Since the beginning of the 2008 economic crisis, he has been a regular contributor to the Guardian, and a vocal critic of the failures of our economic system.