Quotes by : Ha-Joon Chang

Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things,....

If the world were full of the self-seeking individuals found in economics textbooks, it would grind to....

Economics is a political argument. It is not – and can never be – a science; there are no objective....

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

Charities are now working to give people in poor countries access to the Internet. But shouldn't we spend....

A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange....

I would go one step further and say that the willingness to challenge professional economists - and other....

The issue of false consciousness is a genuinely difficult problem that has no definite solution. We should....

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time is....