Description
The acclaimed Ha-Joon Chang is a voice of sanity-and wit-in this lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to question the assumptions in the back of the dogma and sheer hype that the dominant school of neoliberal economists have spun for the reason that Age of Reagan. 23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism uses twenty-three short essays (a couple of great examples: “There Is No Such Thing as a Free Market,” “The Washing Machine Has Changed the World More than the Web Has”) to equip readers with an understanding of how global capitalism works, and doesn’t, whilst offering a vision of how we will be able to shape capitalism to humane ends, as an alternative of turning into slaves of the market.
Praise for 23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism:
“A full of life, 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. ‘The “truths” peddled by free-market ideologues are according to lazy assumptions and blinkered visions,’ he charges.”-Time