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- Paperback / softback | 304 pages
- 13 × 1.7 × 19.8 cm | 227
- 01 September 2011
- Penguin Books Ltd
- United Kingdom
€15.40
Turns received economic wisdom on its head to show you how the world really works. In this book, the author 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; poor countries are more entrepreneurial than rich ones.
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ISBN: 9780141047973
Book Format: Paperback / softback
Pages: 304
Dimensions: 13 × 1.7 × 19.8 cm
Born in South Korea, No 1 International Bestselling Author Ha-Joon Chang is a specialist in development economics and Reader in the Political Economy of Development at the University of Cambridge. In 2005, Chang was awarded the Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. He is author of Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (2002), whic h won the 2003 Gunnar Myrdal Prize, and Bad Samaritans: Rich Nations, Poor Policies and the Threat to the Developing World (2007). 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.
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