Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism - Ha-Joon Chang
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Written by Ha-Joon Chang
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A rising young star in the field of economics attacks the free-trade orthodoxy of The World Is Flat head-on–a crisp, contrarian history of global capitalism.
One economist has called Ha-Joon Chang “the most exciting thinker our profession has turned out in the past fifteen years.” With Bad Samaritans, this provocative scholar bursts into the debate on globalization and economic justice. 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. On the contrary, Chang shows, today’s economic superpowers–from the U.S. to Britain to his native Korea–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 and–via our proxies such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization–ramming policies that suit ourselves down the throat of the developing world.
Unlike typical economists who construct models of how the marketplace should work, Chang examines the past: what has actually happened. His pungently contrarian history demolishes one pillar after another of free-market mythology. We treat patents and copyrights as sacrosanct–but developed our own industries by studiously copying others’ technologies. We insist that centrally planned economies stifle growth–but many developing countries had higher GDP growth before they were pressured into deregulating their economies. Both justice and common sense, Chang argues, demand that we reevaluate the policies we force on nations that are struggling to follow in our footsteps.
Running time: 9:15:00
1 Prologue - Mozambique’s Economic Miracle - How to Escape Poverty
2 The Lexus and the Olive Tree Revisited - Myths and Facts about Globalization
3 The Double Life of Daniel Defoe - How Did the Rich Countries Become Rich
4 My Six-Year-Old Son Should Get a Job - Is Free Trade Always the Answer
5 The Finn and the Elephant - Should We Regulate Foreign Investment
6 Man Exploits Man - Private Enterprise Good, Public Enterprise Bad
7 Windows 98 in 1997 - Is It Wrong to ‘Borrow’ Ideas
8 Mission Impossible - Can Financial Prudence Go Too Far
9 Zaire vs. Indonesia - Should We Turn Our Backs on Corrupt and Undemocratic Countries
10 Lazy Japanese and Thieving Germans - Are Some Cultures Incapable Of Economic Development
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| [03-10] The Double Life of Daniel Defoe - How Did the Rich Countries Become Rich.mp3 14.8 MBs | |
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This post has 2 comments with rating of 5/5
February 26th, 2022
Thank you programa.
February 27th, 2022
Thank you programa. Ha-Joon Chang helps explain why so many people are angry and disillusioned with the state of the world.
Sadly how to do justice to the have-nots when resource and environmental limits to growth over the coming decades is fast bearing down on a finite world is not discussed in this book.
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