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About This Book ---------------- 'There is no alternative' - to neoliberal economics, the Americanization of the world's economies, and globalization. This remains the driving assumption within the international development policy establishment. In this book, two economists, Ha-Joon Chang and llene Grabel, cogently explain this dominant school's main assertions about how economies develop and the policies that all countries Ought to pursue. The authors then combine data and a devastating economic logic with an analysis of the historical experiences of leading Western and East Asian economies during their development, in order to question the validity of the neeliberal development model. Turning to policy, the authors set out concrete, practical alternatives to neoliberalism across the key economic areas: trade and industrial policy; privatization; intellectual property rights; external borrowing, portfolio and foreign direct investment; domestic financial regulation; and management of exchange rates, central banking and monetary policy, and government revenue and expenditure. In doing so, they advocate the most useful proposals that have emerged around the world along with some inn

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Author

Ha-Joon Chang, Ilene Grabel

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Political Science, Politics

Rating

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Updated

2026-03-14