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
“Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism” (2018) by Slobodian (Harvard Press) is a detailed history of the people and ideas neoliberalism, and the institutions they created. The book is historical and delved into the deep end. One reflection, which is somewhat counter intuitive, is that neoliberals are not opposed to government […]
Issa G. Shivji is one of East Africa’s well-known critical scholars, researchers and professors. Much of his work has appeared in shorter essay form, as opposed to academic articles or books (although he has published several books as well). “Silences in NGO Discourses: The Role and Future of NGOs in Africa” (2007) is one of […]
Tags: #Development Studies #Ideology #Issa Shivji #Neoliberalism #NGO