Bad Samaritans

Bad Samaritans

AngličtinaStiahnuteľný audio súbor
Chang, Ha-Joon
Brilliance Audio
EAN: 9781423346876
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With irreverent wit, an engagingly personal style, and a battery of real-life examples, Ha-Joon Chang blasts holes in the World Is Flat orthodoxy of Thomas Friedman and other neo-liberal economists who argue that only unfettered capitalism and wide-open international trade can lift struggling nations out of poverty. On the contrary, Chang shows, todays economic superpowersfrom the United States to Britain to his native South Koreaall attained prosperity by shameless protectionism and government intervention in industry. We in the wealthy nations have conveniently forgotten this fact, telling ourselves a fairy tale about the magic of free trade andvia our proxies such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organizationramming policies that suit ourselves down the throat of the developing world.Unlike typical economists who construct models of how economies are supposed to behave, Chang examines the past: what has actually happened. His pungently contrarian history demolishes one pillar after another of free-market mythology. We treat patents and copyrights as sacrosanctbut developed our own industries by studiously copying others technologies. We insist that centrally planned economies stifle growthbut many developing countries had higher GDP growth before they were pressured into deregulating their economies. Both justice and common sense, Chang argues, demand that we reevaluate the policies we force on weaker nations. Bad Samaritans calls on America to return to its abandoned role, embodied in programs like the Marshall Plan, to offer a helping hand, instead of a closed fist, to countries struggling to follow in our footsteps.
EAN 9781423346876
ISBN 1423346874
Typ produktu Stiahnuteľný audio súbor
Vydavateľ Brilliance Audio
Jazyk English
Krajina Uruguay
Autori Chang, Ha-Joon