Ha-Joon Chang
Edible Economics
Ha-Joon Chang is an exceptional academic – unique contributions, excellent storyteller, interdisciplinary approaches, and in this book appetizing: “Edible Economics: The World in 17 Dishes” (2022). This book was not written for academics, but everyday readers who might get pulled into economics, history and politics via food. This book is an easy and enjoyable read […]
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Bad Samaritans
Ha-Joon Chang has written many excellent books, on this blog I have covered Kicking Away the Ladder and 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism. With the encouragement of Oxfam’s Duncan Green, in 2007 Chang published “Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism”. The book aims for a […]
Tags: #Bad Samaritans #Capitalism #Free Trade Myth #Ha-Joon Chang #Neoliberalism
23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang has written a number of excellent books, I’ve only covered one (Kicking Away the Ladder) on this blog so far. Another of his books – also very accessible and clearly written for non-specialists, is “23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism” (2010). This argument has become more mainstream since Chang started to […]
Tags: #Capitalism #Free-marketers #Ha-Joon Chang #Neoliberal #Protectionism
Kicking Away the Ladder
Cambridge professor of development studies, Ha-Joon Chang, is likely more known is the ‘Global South’ than within universities in North America or Europe – mainly because his writing takes a different approach, sometimes rather boldly so. Of his long list of publications, “Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective” (2002) is the most […]
Tags: #Capitalism #Development economics #Development policy #Ha-Joon Chang #Kicking away the ladder
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Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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