23 Things They Don't Tell You About CapitalismBloomsbury Publishing USA, 24.01.2012 - 288 Seiten The acclaimed Ha-Joon Chang is a voice of sanity-and wit-in this lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the dominant school of neoliberal economists have spun since the Age of Reagan. 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism uses twenty-three short essays (a few great examples: "There Is No Such Thing as a Free Market," "The Washing Machine Has Changed the World More than the Internet Has") to equip readers with an understanding of how global capitalism works, and doesn't, while offering a vision of how we can shape capitalism to humane ends, instead of becoming slaves of the market. Praise for 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism: "A lively, 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 based on lazy assumptions and blinkered visions,' he charges."-Time |
Inhalt
There is no such thing as a free market | 1 |
Companies should not be run in the interest of their owners | 11 |
Most people in rich countries are paid more than they should be | 23 |
The washing machine has changed the world more than the internet has | 31 |
Assume the worst about people and you get the worst | 41 |
Greater macroeconomic stability has not made the world economy more stable | 51 |
Freemarket policies rarely make poor countries rich | 62 |
Capital has a nationality | 74 |
Governments can pick winners | 125 |
Making rich people richer doesnt make | 137 |
People in poor countries are more | 157 |
More education in itself is not going | 178 |
Despite the fall of communism we | 199 |
Big government makes people more | 221 |
Good economic policy does not require | 242 |
Postscript | 264 |
We do not live in a postindustrial age | 88 |
The US does not have the highest living standard in the world | 102 |
Africa is not destined for underdevelopment | 112 |
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