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....

Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist....

Since the 1980s, we have given the rich a bigger slice of our pie in the belief that they would create....

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....

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