Ha-Joon Chang

Thing 1: There is no such thing as free market. Thing 4: The washing machine has changed the world more than the Internet. Thing 5: Assume the worst about people, and you get the worst. Thing 13: Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer. If you've wondered how we did not see

A rising young star in the field of economics attacks the free-trade orthodoxy of <i>The World Is Flat</i> head-on—a crisp, contrarian history of global capitalism.<br /><br />One economist has called Ha-Joon Chang "the most exciting thinker our profession has turned out in the past fifteen years."