from fluteflute

For someone with no background in economics (and this is probably the first book on the subject I've read) then it was definitely an Interesting read. Chang first explains the common views he is trying to rebut. Enjoyable to start with, but by the end arguments felt a little repetitive, and with ...

from Ellesee

The ONE thing they don't tell you about capitalism is that for a few people to be filthy rich, a larger number have to be dirt poor. Yet, this is not the kind of critique Ha-Joon Chang provides. Instead he takes the reader through 23 myths that people believe or accept about capitalism, and speci...

from bezoar44

Wikipedia describes Ha-Joon Chang as a 'heterodox economist', meaning that he's a critic of the currently dominant strain of neoclassical economics. That's accurate enough; in this book, Chang advances 23 loosely related propositions that contradict aspects of the neoclassical synthesis. A number...

from roblong

A good read, economic ideas for the non-economist. He makes 23 short arguments against the free-market orthodoxies that have dominated Britain and much of the developed world since the 80s, saying that they are far more trouble than they are worth, particularly in the longer term. His writing is ...

from ParadigmTree

Back in my university days, when I was taking economics classes, there was something that was always bothered me about how economics was taught and the assumptions that were used. At the time, I had trouble articulating what it was. Well, I wish I had this book back then. Ha-Joon Chang's book cap...