Bücher von Ha-Joon Chang

What is economics?What can - and can't - it explain about the world? Why does it matter?Ha-Joon Chang teaches economics at Cambridge University, and writes a column for the Guardian. The Observer called his book 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, which was a no.1 bestseller, 'a witty and timely debunking of some of the biggest myths surrounding the global economy.' He won the Wassily Leontief Prize for advancing the frontiers of economic thought, and is a vocal critic of the failures of our current economic system.

Ha-Joon Chang dispels the myths and prejudices that have come to dominate our understanding of how the world works. He succeeds in both setting the historical record straight ('the washing machine has changed the world more than the internet'; 'the US does not have the highest living standard in the world'; 'people in poor countries are more entrepreneurial than people in rich countries') and persuading us of the consequences of his analysis ('making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer'; 'companies should not be run in the interest of their owners'; 'financial markets need to become less, not more, efficient'). As Chang shows above all else, all economic choices are political ones, and it is time we started to be honest about them.

How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development. His conclusions are compelling and disturbing: that developed countries are attempting to 'kick away the ladder' with which they have climbed to the top, thereby preventing developing countries from adopting policies and institutions that they themselves have used.

Was glauben Sie über den Kapitalismus zu wissen?Seit den 1980er-Jahren prägt die Ideologie des freien Marktes die Welt. Doch hat sie ihre Versprechen wirklich eingelöst? Macht die Globalisierung die Welt wirklich reicher? Produzieren hochbezahlte Manager wirklich bessere Ergebnisse? Macht Liberalisierung arme Länder wirklich wohlhabender?Mit fachlicher Präzision und zugleich verständlicher Sprache zerlegt der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Berater Ha-Joon Chang die zentralen Mythen des Kapitalismus. In 23 Thesen und Gegenthesen analysiert er die Grundzüge der Marktwirtschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts und legt dabei die Brüche und Limitationen einer rein marktgetriebenen Gesellschaft offen. Klar strukturiert wird dabei aufgeführt, was man uns erzählt, was man uns verschweigt, und warum wir uns nicht mit den vermeintlich einfachen Antworten zufriedengeben dürfen, die uns die Vertreter der freien Marktwirtschaft glauben machen wollen.Chang liefert das nötige Rüstzeug, um die Halbwahrheiten der neoliberalen Ökonomie zu durchschauen. Für alle, die sich nach einer differenzierten Sichtweise sehnen und ihr Unbehagen gegenüber dem Kapitalismus in klare Erkenntnis verwandeln möchten, ist dieses Buch unverzichtbar.Dieses Buch ist eine Neuauflage des 2010 bei C. Bertelsmann erschienenen Ausgabe mit dem Titel 23 Lügen, die sie uns über den Kapitalismus erzählen.

After half a century of disappointed hopes, where do developing countries go from here? In this volume, two economists refute some of the main myths of free market globalization in trenchant fashion. introducing the alternative economic policies that can be and have been successfully pursued.

East Asia's development experience, at least until its crisis in 1997, has been a source of hope for other countries in the South. And in modern economic theory, it has been at the centre of the debate about how the role of the state relates to processes of intentional economic progress.

This collection of essays reviews theories and practices of state intervention as they have developed over the last two centuries.