23 Things They Don't Tell You About CapitalismBloomsbury Publishing USA, 01.01.2010 - 286 Seiten Thing 1: There is no such thing as free market. If you've wondered how we did not see the economic collapse coming, Ha-Joon Chang knows the answer: We didn't ask what they didn't tell us about capitalism. This is a lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the dominant school of neoliberal economists-the apostles of the freemarket-have spun since the Age of Reagan. Chang, the author of the international bestseller Bad Samaritans, is one of the world's most respected economists, a voice of sanity-and wit-in the tradition of John Kenneth Galbraith and Joseph Stiglitz. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism equips readers with an understanding of how global capitalism works-and doesn't. In his final chapter, "How to Rebuild the World," Chang offers a vision of how we can shape capitalism to humane ends, instead of becoming slaves of the market. Ha-Joon Chang teaches in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. His books include the bestselling Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism. His Kicking Away the Ladder received the 2003 Myrdal Prize, and, in 2005, Chang was awarded the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. |
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Thing | 4 |
Thing | 11 |
Most people in rich countries are paid more | 23 |
The washing machine has changed | 31 |
Assume the worst about people and | 41 |
Greater macroeconomic stability has | 51 |
Freemarket policies rarely make poor | 62 |
Capital has a nationality | 74 |
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 |
23 | 242 |
Notes | 265 |
31 | 269 |
We do not live in a postindustrial | 88 |
The US does not have the highest living | 102 |
Africa is not destined for underdevelopment | 112 |
Governments can pick winners | 125 |
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