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A rising young star in the field of economics attacks the free-trade orthodoxy of The World Is Flat head-ona crisp, contrarian history of global capitalism. One economist has called Ha-Joon Chang "the most exciting thinker our profession has turned out in the past fifteen years." With Bad Samaritans , this provocative scholar bursts into the debate on globalization and economic justice. Using irreverent wit, an engagingly personal style, and a battery of examples, Chang blasts holes in the "World Is Flat" orthodoxy of Thomas Friedman and other liberal economists 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 superpowersfrom the U.S. to Britain to his native Koreaall attained prosperity by shameless protectionism and government intervention in industry. We have conveniently forgotten this fact, telling ourselves a fairy tale about the magic of free trade andvia our proxies such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organizationramming policies that suit ourselves down the throat of the developing world. Unlike typical economists who con

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Author

Ha-Joon Chang

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781596915985

Category

history

Subjects

Economics, Fiction, History

Rating

4.15 / 5 (2,480 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14