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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 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.
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.
RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK Economic thinking - about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible formFor decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this is bland and unhealthy - like British food in the 1980s, when bestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang first arrived in the UK from South Korea. Just as eating a wide range of cuisines contributes to a more interesting and balanced diet, so too is it essential we listen to a variety of economic perspectives.In Edible Economics, Chang makes challenging economic ideas more palatable by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world. He uses histories behind familiar food items - where they come from, how they are cooked and consumed, what they mean to different cultures - to explore economic theory. For Chang, chocolate is a life-long addiction, but more exciting are the insights it offers into post-industrial knowledge economies; and while okra makes Southern gumbo heart-meltingly smooth, it also speaks of capitalism's entangled relationship with freedom and unfreedom. Explaining everything from the hidden cost of care work to the misleading language of the free market as he cooks dishes like anchovy and egg toast, Gambas al Ajillo and Korean dotori mook, Ha-Joon Chang serves up an easy-to-digest feast of bold ideas.Myth-busting, witty and thought-provoking, Edible Economics shows that getting to grips with the economy is like learning a recipe: if we understand it, we can change it - and, with it, the world.
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.
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.
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.
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