About the Author

Born in South Korea, No 1 International Bestselling Author Ha-Joon Chang is a specialist in development economics and Reader in the Political Economy of Development at the University of Cambridge. In 2005, Chang was awarded the Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. He is author of Kicking Away the Ladder- Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (2002), which won the 2003 Gunnar Myrdal Prize, and Bad Samaritans- Rich Nations, Poor Policies and the Threat to the Developing World (2007). Since the beginning of the 2008 economic crisis, he has been a regular contributor to the Guardian, and a vocal critic of the failures of our economic system.

Reviews

A masterful debunking of some of the myths of capitalism ... Witty, iconoclastic and uncommonly commonsensical ... this book will be invaluable
*Observer*

Important .. persuasive . [an] engaging case for a more cautious and caring era of globalisation
*Financial Times*

Myth-busting and nicely-written . the best economists are those who look around at our man-made world and ask themselves "why?". Chang is one
*Independent*

In 23 lucid, sometimes breezily didactic chapters, Chang takes apart the stricken ideology of neoliberalism. Chang's method is not to engage with the neoliberals but to knock them down with assertions.
*Guardian*

Ha-Joon Chang is a formidable critic...and a true exponent of the art of political economy
*Prospect*

Chang's...iconoclastic attitude has won him fans such as Bob Geldof and Noam Chomsky.
*The Independent on Sunday*

For anyone who wants to understand capitalism not as economists or politicians have pictured it, but as it actually operates, this book will be invaluable.
*Observer*