PENGUIN ORANGE SPINES : 23 THEY DONT TELL YOU ABOUT CAPITALISM 1ST ED PB A – HA-JOON CHANG

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. In this revelatory book, Ha-Joon Chang destroys the biggest myths of our times and shows us an alternative view of the world, including: There s no such thing as a free market Globalization isn t making the world richer We don t live in a digital world – the washing machine has changed lives more than the internet Poor countries are more entrepreneurial than rich ones Higher paid managers don t produce better results 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. Lively, accessible and provocative … read this book – Sunday Times A witty and timely debunking of some of the biggest myths surrounding the global economy – Observer The new kid on the economics block … Chang s iconoclastic attitude has won him fans – Independent on Sunday Lucid … audacious … increasingly influential … will provoke physical symptoms of revulsion if you are in any way involved in high finance – Guardian Important … persuasive … an engaging case for a more caring era of globalization – Financial Times A must-read … incisive and entertaining – New Statesman Books of the Year 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.