Books by Ha-Joon Chang

The author is Ha-Joon Chang, and the subtitle is A Hungry Economist Explains the World .  This is an economics of food book with a Korean emphasis, and arguing in favor of protectionism and industrial policy, in line with the author’s earlier works.  Here is one excerpt:

2. Ha-Joon Chang, Economics: The User’s Guide .  A genuinely humble and pluralistic introduction to the economic way of thinking, from a “developmentalist,” linkages are important for economic growth, anti-free trade point of view.

2. Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism , by Ha-Joon Chang.  This is a less subtle version of the "free trade isn’t always best" arguments made by Dani Rodrik.  Reread my post The New Attack on Free Trade .