23 Things They Don't 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.<br/><br/>In this revelatory book, Ha-Joon Chang destroys the biggest myths of our times and shows us an alternative view of the world, including:<br/>There's no such thing as a 'free' market<br/>Globalization isn't making the world richer<br/>We don't live in a digital world - the washing machine has changed lives more than the internet<br/>Poor countries are more entrepreneurial than rich ones<br/>Higher paid managers don't produce better results<br/>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.<br/><br/>'Lively, accessible and provocative ... read this book'<br/>Sunday Times<br/><br/>'A witty and timely debunking of some of the biggest myths surrounding the global economy'<br/>Observer<br/><br/>'The new kid on the economics block ... Chang's iconoclastic attitude has won him fans'<br/>Independent on Sunday<br/><br/>'Lucid ... audacious ... increasingly influential ... will provoke physical symptoms of revulsion if you are in any way involved in high finance'<br/><br/>Guardian<br/><br/>'Important ... persuasive ... an engaging case for a more caring era of globalization'<br/>Financial Times<br/><br/>'A must-read ... incisive and entertaining'<br/>New Statesman Books of the Year<br/><br/>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.