Ha-Joon

Even knowledgeable trade skeptics who focus on trying to help poorer countries develop like the economist Ha-Joon Chang argue for rich nations moving more towards free trade – dropping trade barriers and farm subsidies.

Matthew Yglesias » Sherri Berman: Progressives Must Believe in Change 2009

Cambridge Economist Ha-Joon Chang has written a number of books on this (and he has a great sense of humor).

Matthew Yglesias » Does Anybody Know How to Do Development? 2010

South Korea was probably the classic case (Meredith Woo Cummings and Ha-Joon Chang are the authorities here), with the state directly allocating investment capital and foreign exchange to chaebols based on their market share in key export sectors.

Matthew Yglesias » A Patriotic Post 2007

As Ha-Joon Chang has pointed out, building up the institutions and rules that the rich nations have built up – labor standards and protections, intellectual property regimes, effective environmental regulatory regimes, etc. – are rather expensive and often only saw real progress in rich nations as those countries became rich, in part through trade.

Matthew Yglesias » Inequality and the China Trade 2007

You wrote: "Ha-Joon Chang leans quite a lot on the problem of patent law but, despite official LP policy, patent laws don't really have a place in free markets or property rights or the rule of law which suggests they are more of a state-based method of expropriation."

Real World Economics -- Protectionism Is Not Always Wrong Patrick Vessey 2008

Ha-Joon Chang (Bad Samaritans), Naomi Klein (Shock Doctrine), and Ravi Batra (Greenspan's Fraud; The New Golden Age) can give you more details about what really happens with so-called free markets.

Madness 101: Fooling (with) the middle class. 2008

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Book Review - Bad Samaritans - Ha-Joon chang 2008

Ha-Joon Chang (Bad Samaritans), Naomi Klein (Shock Doctrine), and Ravi Batra (Greenspan's Fraud; The New Golden Age) can give you more details about what really happens with so-called free markets.

Madness 101: Fooling (with) the middle class 2008

I began the year determined to cure my ignorance about economics - and fell gratefully upon Ha-Joon Chang's 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism Allen Lane, £9.99.

Evening Standard - Home 2011

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The Guardian World News 2011