Ha-Joon Chang

Chang is a South Korean economist who taught at Cambridge for decades and now works at SOAS in London, and his argument stays consistent: the rich countries that lecture developing ones about free trade all used protection and state direction to get rich in the first place. Kicking Away the Ladder makes that case historically. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism makes it in short chapters for general readers. Edible Economics explains economic ideas one dish at a time. Mainstream economists find him overstated; development economists cite him constantly.