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Bad Samaritans : Paperback : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC : 9781596915985 : 1596915986 : 02 Jan 2009 : 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."Read More

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    â??Lucid, deeply informed, and enlivened with striking illustrations, this penetrating study could be entitled â??Economics in the Real World.â?? Chang reveals the yawning gap between standard doctrines concerning economic development and what really has taken place from the origins of the industrial revolution until today. His incisive analysis shows how, and why, prescriptions based on reigning doctrines have caused severe harm, particularly to the most vulnerable and defenseless, and are likely to continue to do so.â?â??Noam Chomsky

    Using irreverent wit, an engagingly personal style, and a battery of examples, Chang blasts holes in the â??World I s Flatâ? orthodoxy of T homas 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, todayâ??s economic superpowersâ??from the U .S. to Britain to his native Koreaâ??all 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 andâ??via our proxies such as the World Bank, I nternational Monetary Fund, and World T rade Organizationâ??ramming policies that suit ourselves down the throat of the developing world.

  • 1596915986
  • 9781596915985
  • Ha-Joon Chang
  • 23 December 2008
  • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 288
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