![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I think that we need to go back in time quite a bit and start with the 2008 global financial crisis, because we are actually still living through the consequences of the crisis. The Fed implemented an aggressive rate hike because of the inflation problem and that has already had a negative impact on some US banks. In a relaxed conversation at the offices of Fundar, the Argentine think tank that brought him to Argentina for a visit, Chang spoke to Estefanía Pozzo and Amy Booth. ![]() He has won awards including the Gunnar Myrdal Prize (2003) and the Wassily Leontief Prize (2005) for his work on political economy and development, and made Prospect magazine’s 2013 list of the top 20 World Thinkers. With simple language, Chang achieves a perfect combination of complexity of analysis and simplicity in communicating his thinking.Ĭhang is the author of numerous books on development economics and capitalism, including Economics: The User’s Guide (2014), 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism (2011) and Bad Samaritans (2008). He is an academic who can talk at the same time to specialists and to anyone who has an interest in how the global economy works. Ha-Joon Chang is a South Korean development and heterodox economist known for his ideas about the role of manufacturing in the economy. ![]()
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