Ha-Joon Chang

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(academic, economist, professor)
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Born7 October 1963
Seoul, South Korea
Alma materSeoul National University, University of Cambridge

Ha-Joon Chang is a South Korean institutional economist who taught economics at Cambridge University for more than 30 years before taking up a professorship at SOAS University of London in the Summer of 2022. He is the author of many books, the latest being "Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World".

In 2013, Prospect magazine ranked Ha-Joon Chang as one of the top 20 World Thinkers. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Investment Bank, as well as to Oxfam and various United Nations agencies. He is also a fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. In addition, Professor Chang serves on the advisory board of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP).

Background

Ha-Joon Chang, who grew up in South Korea, came to global prominence after the financial crash of 2007-8 with two bestselling books that picked over the bones of the carnage wrought by the banks: "Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism" and the shorter, wittier, brilliantly persuasive "23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism".

(Here’s a couple of those things: “The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.” And: “Economics, as it has been practised for the last 30 years has been harmful for most people.”)

The philosopher and author John Gray – another master of the telling aphorism – writing in The Guardian, suggested that Chang was not only the most trenchant critic of disastrous neoliberal orthodoxies, but also that his book was required reading for any political party serious about finding solutions.

Nearly 15 years on from the Global Financial Crisis, Professor Chang is witness to a world that not only did not learn any of those lessons, but which seems determined to repeat the failed ideology to economic and environmental destruction.[1]

Book of the Week

BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (17-21 October 2022) was Ha-Joon Chang's "Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World".

Over five episodes Professor Chang zooms in on garlic, bananas, okra, rye and chocolate, using the histories behind familiar foods - where they come from, how they are cooked and consumed, what they mean to different cultures - to explore economic theories. Witty and thought-provoking, Prof. Chang sets out to challenge ideas about the free-market economy which he believes have been too easily accepted for decades.[2]:

Earlier books


 

A Document by Ha-Joon Chang

TitleDocument typePublication dateSubject(s)Description
Document:Uniting Behind A People’s Vaccine Against COVID-19open letter14 May 2020"COVID-19/Vaccine"A number of deep state operatives, including 14 Bilderbergers, calling for the creation of infrastructure to rapidly jab everyone in the world.
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