Bøger af Ha-Joon Chang

Ha-Joon Chang skabte røre – også i Danmark – med sin bog ’23 ting man fortier om kapitalismen’, der i Danmark udkom med forord af Mogens Lykketoft. Nu følger Klim succesen op med ’Økonomi’, hvor han på sin karakteristisk grundlæggende facon, diskuterer de mest basale økonomiske spørgsmål med en åben og kritisk indstilling til, hvordan verdens økonomiske systemer er skruet sammen. Hvad er økonomi? Hvad kan økonomi sige os om verden? Hvorfor er økonomi så vigtig? Changs tilgang er baseret på den virkelige verden, på et globalt overblik og på rigtige tal. Det er imponerende, at han er stand til at gøre stoffet både let forståeligt og ekstremt inddragende.

Har du nogensinde spurgt dig selv om, hvorfor det store økonomiske kollaps i 2008 tog næsten hele verden med bukserne nede? Ha-Joon Chang giver os 23 svar: Det skyldes de ting, som vi ikke får at vide om kapitalismen.Med underfundig humor viser Chang, at alle økonomiske valg også er politiske valg, og at det nu er på tide at tale ærligt om dem. 23 ting man fortier om kapitalismen giver os en forståelse af, hvordan den globale kapitalisme fungerer – og ikke fungererChang er med årene blevet en af verdens mest toneangivende økonomer i traditionen fra John Kenneth Galbraith og Joseph Stiglitz.“Jeg er ikke modstander af kapitalismen, men den er verdens mest elendige økonomiske system – bortset fra alle de andre!”Ha-Joon Chang

What is economics?What can - and can't - it explain about the world? Why does it matter?Ha-Joon Chang teaches economics at Cambridge University, and writes a column for the Guardian. The Observer called his book 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, which was a no.1 bestseller, 'a witty and timely debunking of some of the biggest myths surrounding the global economy.' He won the Wassily Leontief Prize for advancing the frontiers of economic thought, and is a vocal critic of the failures of our current economic system.

Ha-Joon Chang dispels the myths and prejudices that have come to dominate our understanding of how the world works. He succeeds in both setting the historical record straight ('the washing machine has changed the world more than the internet'; 'the US does not have the highest living standard in the world'; 'people in poor countries are more entrepreneurial than people in rich countries') and persuading us of the consequences of his analysis ('making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer'; 'companies should not be run in the interest of their owners'; 'financial markets need to become less, not more, efficient'). As Chang shows above all else, all economic choices are political ones, and it is time we started to be honest about them.

How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development. His conclusions are compelling and disturbing: that developed countries are attempting to 'kick away the ladder' with which they have climbed to the top, thereby preventing developing countries from adopting policies and institutions that they themselves have used.

Dette er en lettilgængelig bog med et alvorligt ærinde, nemlig at blotlægge de neoliberalistiske økonomiske fejlslutninger. Med underfundig humor viser Chang, at alle økonomiske valg også er politiske valg, og det er nu på tide at tale ærligt om dem. Chang er med årene blevet en af verdens mest toneangivende økonomer i traditionen fra John Kenneth Galbraith og Joseph Stiglitz.Channg er ikke modstander af kapitalismen. Som han selv skriver, er det verdens mest elendige økonomiske system – bortset fra alle de andre! Sidst i bogen kommer han med et bud på, hvordan vi kan omforme systemet og gøre det mere humant i stedet for at være slaver af markedet.

I ‘Spiselig økonomi’ appellerer Chang til læsere, der ikke nødvendigvis interesserer sig for økonomi ved først at tale om mad.Ha-Joon Chang skabte stort røre – også i Danmark – med sin bog ’23 ting man fortier om kapitalismen’, der i Danmark udkom med forord af Mogens Lykketoft.Klim fulgte op på succesen med ´’Økonomi’, hvor Chang på sin karakteristisk grundlæggende facon, diskuterer de mest basale økonomiske spørgsmål med en åben og kritisk indstilling til, hvordan verdens økonomiske systemer er skruet sammen.Chang tager udgangspunkt i verden, og hans tilgang til den er baseret på et globalt overblik og på rigtige tal. Det er imponerende, at han er stand til at gøre stoffet både let forståeligt og ekstremt inddragende.“Vi har fået galt fat på denne her profession. Mange økonomer tror, at det, de beskæftiger sig med, er uforståeligt for almindelige mennesker … Hvis du ikke kan forklare det til andre, har du et problem.”Ha-Joon Chang, VarsityHa-Joon Chang har tre store passioner: økonomi, mad og trivia, og det er denne bog et udslag af. Med maden som prisme, forklarer han i denne bog økonomi på en måde, så alle kan være med.Før man opdager det, er historier om mad blevet til økonomiske diskussioner om international handel, automatisering, klima, velfærd og meget andet.Nogle gange er maden det centrale for diskussionen, og nogle gange er den blot et afsæt, men den er altid en underholdende måde at forstå økonomi på.

Edible Economics brings the sort of creative fusion that spices up a great kitchen to the often too-disciplined subject of economics For decades, a single, free-market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this intellectual monoculture is bland and unhealthy. Bestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang makes challenging economic ideas delicious by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world, using the diverse histories behind familiar food items to explore economic theory. For Chang, chocolate is a lifelong addiction, but more exciting are the insights it offers into postindustrial knowledge economies; and while okra makes Southern gumbo heart-meltingly smooth, it also speaks of capitalism’s entangled relationship with freedom.  Myth-busting, witty, and thought-provoking, Edible Economics serves up a feast of bold ideas about globalization, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation, and why carrots need not be orange. It shows that getting to grips with the economy is like learning a recipe: when we understand it, we can adapt and improve it—and better understand our world.

"Lucid, deeply informed, and enlivened with striking illustrations." -Noam ChomskyOne 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.

After half a century of disappointed hopes, where do developing countries go from here? In this volume, two economists refute some of the main myths of free market globalization in trenchant fashion. introducing the alternative economic policies that can be and have been successfully pursued.

It's rare that a book appears with a fresh perspective on world affairs, but renowned economist Ha-Joon Chang has some startlingly original things to say about the future of globalization.

East Asia's development experience, at least until its crisis in 1997, has been a source of hope for other countries in the South. And in modern economic theory, it has been at the centre of the debate about how the role of the state relates to processes of intentional economic progress.

This collection of essays reviews theories and practices of state intervention as they have developed over the last two centuries.