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Ha-Joon Chang
Questioning free-market development orthodoxy in Kicking Away the Ladder and accessible economics books.
Kicking Away the Ladder · 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
- Born
- 7 October 1963
- Birthplace
- Seoul, South Korea
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Ha-Joon Chang
Ha-Joon Chang is a South Korean economist who studies industrial policy and economic development. His writing examines how the historical experience of wealthy countries compares with the policies they recommend to others.
Early life
Seoul education
Studied economics at Seoul National University.
Cambridge research
Completed postgraduate study at Cambridge, researching state intervention and industrial policy.
Career
- 1990
Cambridge teaching
Began a long period teaching economics at the university.
- 2002
Development debate
Published Kicking Away the Ladder.
- 2022
SOAS
Moved to SOAS University of London.
Selected work
Kicking Away the Ladder
Argues that rich countries often developed using policies they later discouraged elsewhere.
23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
Challenges familiar claims about markets and economic policy.
Economics: The User’s Guide
Introduces competing economic approaches to a general audience.
Beyond work
Policy advice
Has consulted for development banks, United Nations agencies and Oxfam.
Academic family
His brother Hasok Chang is a historian and philosopher of science.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Further source: soas.ac.uk ↗Photo: Discott. CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
