Ha-Joon Chang: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
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- Kategoria: yhteiskunta & politiikka, alakategoria: taloustiede, kansantaloustiede
- Materiaali: Nidottu
- Kustantaja: Bloomsbury Publishing
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9781596915985
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'Bad Samaritans' was an introduction to open-minded economists and political free-thinkers to Ha-Joon Chang's theories of the dangers of free-trade. With irreverent wit, an engagingly personal style, and a keen grasp of history, Chang blasts holes in the 'World Is Flat' orthodoxy of Thomas Friedman and others who argue that only unfettered capitalism and wide-open international trade can lift struggling nations out of poverty. On the contrary, Chang shows, today's economic superpowers-from the U. S. to Britain to his native Korea-all attained prosperity by shameless protectionism and government intervention in industry, a fact conveniently forgotten now that they want to compete in foreign markets. Chang's cage-rattling, contrarian history of global capital appeals to readers new to economic theory as well as members of the old school looking for a fresh take.