Ha-Joon CHANG - 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

Speaker: Professor Ha-Joon Chang
We may like or dislike capitalism, but surely we all know how it works. Right? Wrong. Today, most arguments about capitalism are dominated by free-market ideology and unfounded assumptions that parade as 'facts'. This lecture in which Ha-Joon Chang will talk about his new book 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism| tells the story of capitalism as it is and shows how capitalism as we know it can be, and should be, made better.


Ha-Joon Chang (born in South Korea in 1963) is a leading heterodox economist specializing in development economics. He currently teaches political economy of development at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of numerous influential books, including Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (2002), who won the 2003 Gunnar Myrdal prize awarded by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE).

One of the main disciples of Joseph Stiglitz, Ha-Joon Chang has worked as a consultant for the World Bank for the Asian Development Bank for the European Investment Bank, for various UN agencies and the NGO Oxfam . There is also a member of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC

He received the 2005 prize for the advancement Leontieff limits of economic thought (awarded in the past including Amartya Sen, John Kenneth Galbraith and Herman Daly), awarded by the Global Development and Environment Institute.