Bad Samaritans
The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
Recommended by Michael Lind, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #15 in Capitalism, Ranked #33 in Commerce — see more rankings.
One economist has called Ha-Joon Chang "the most exciting thinker our profession has turned out in the past fifteen years." With Bad Samaritans, this provocative scholar bursts into the debate on globalization and economic justice. Using irreverent wit, an engagingly personal style, and a battery of examples, Chang blasts holes in the "World Is Flat" orthodoxy of Thomas Friedman and other liberal economists who... more
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Michael Lind The three leading countries of industrial capitalism – the United States, Germany and Japan – developed by using techniques, as Ha-Joon Chang points out, that are the opposite of what are supposed to work. There are endless bestselling books about how the West developed and how it became rich. It’s a genre that says that if you just have democracy and government acts as an umpire and doesn’t interfere in the market, factories and aerospace industries will somehow just spring out of nowhere. That is not how the industrial world actually developed. Germany in many ways led the world... (Source)
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- #44 in Development Economics
- #46 in Economic History
- #50 in Economics
- #63 in Trade
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