Ha-Joon Chang

A response to The World Is Flat challenges beliefs about free trade, globalization, and economic justice to provide a contrarian history of global capitalism, revealing how top-level economies achieved their wealth through less ethical practices that victimized the developing world.

The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

Bad Samaritans

Bjorn L.

Using irreverent wit, an engagingly personal style, and a battery of examples, Chang blasts holes in the "World Is Flat" orthodoxy of Thomas Friedman and other liberal economists who argue that only unfettered capitalism and wide-open international trade can lift struggling nations out of poverty.

Bad Samaritans The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism