num_pages: 304
description: <p>The acclaimed Ha-Joon Chang is a voice of sanity-and wit-in this lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the dominant school of neoliberal economists have spun since the Age of Reagan. <i>23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism</i> uses twenty-three short essays (a few great examples: <i>"There Is No Such Thing as a Free Market,"</i> <i>"The Washing Machine Has Changed the World More than the Internet Has"</i>) to equip readers with an understanding of how global capitalism works, and doesn't, while offering a vision of how we can shape capitalism to humane ends, instead of becoming slaves of the market.</p>
<p class="null1">Praise for <i>23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism</i>:</p>
<p>"A lively, accessible and provocative book."-<b><i>Sunday Times</i></b> (UK )</p>
<p>"Chang, befitting his position as an economics professor at Cambridge University, is engagingly thoughtful and opinionated at a much lower decibel level. 'The "truths" peddled by free-market ideologues are based on lazy assumptions and blinkered visions,' he charges."-<b><i>Time</i></b></p>
language: en
title: 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing