The acclaimed Ha-Joon Chang is a voice of sanity-and wit-in this lighthearted book 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. \'The "truths" peddled by free-market ideologues are based on lazy assumptions and blinkered visions, \' he charges."-Time.
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. 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 readers 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.
The acclaimed Ha-Joon Chang is a voice of sanity-and wit-in this lighthearted book 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
