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    A Macat Analysis of Ha-Joon Chang's Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective
    A Macat Analysis of Ha-Joon Chang's Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective
    A Macat Analysis of Ha-Joon Chang's Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective
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    A Macat Analysis of Ha-Joon Chang's Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective

    Written by Sulaiman Hakemy

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    Since the nineteenth century people have claimed that the prosperity enjoyed by the First World was the result of its devotion to unconstrained economic freedoms. In his 2003 book Kicking Away the Ladder, South Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang claims this was not the case and that, in fact, First World economic success was due to exactly the kinds of state intervention that traditional economic thinking consistently opposes today.

    Chang’s detailed analysis of how Britain, and particularly the United States, came to dominate the emerging global economy highlights their willingness to exploit the apparatus of the state to achieve such results. Chang also shows how the financial, legal, and institutional bodies claimed as essential to the West’s economic muscle were actually the products of its economic dominance, and not the levers that helped it achieve economic success in the first place.

    Kicking Away the Ladder was awarded the 2003 Gunnar Myrdal Prize by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacat
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781912282951
    A Macat Analysis of Ha-Joon Chang's Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective

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      This is not an analysis of the book--very repetitive about the background of Chang, too little in-depth discussion of Chang's arguments about intellectual property and governmental intervention. Sulaiman Hakemy talks to the listeners as if they were first-grade students; sometimes he even sounds like an advertiser. A very frustrating and annoying listening experience. I will read the book instead.