Welcome to the first ever 'Journal Club meeting'! We are pleased to announce that the first reading material is an international best seller book of Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism.
Ha-Joon Chang is one of the leading economists specialising in development economics. He is now a Reader (Associate Professor) in Political Economy at the University of Cambridge, UK.
**Please note that compulsory reading for the first meeting is "chapter 1 There is no such thing as a free market". You are supposed to read it in advance and come to seminar with the others on Sunday 24 August 2014 at 1.00 pm at Ratchapruek Meeting Room.
Some Thoughts on Chang's book
A masterful debunking of some of the myths of capitalism ... Witty, iconoclastic and uncommonly commonsensical ... this book will be invaluable (Observer)
Important .. persuasive . [an] engaging case for a more cautious and caring era of globalisation (Financial Times)
Myth-busting and nicely-written . the best economists are those who look around at our man-made world and ask themselves "why?". Chang is one (Independent)
In 23 lucid, sometimes breezily didactic chapters, Chang takes apart the stricken ideology of neoliberalism. Chang's method is not to engage with the neoliberals but to knock them down with assertions. (Paul Mason, Economics Editor, BBC Newsnight Guardian)
For anyone who wants to understand capitalism not as economists or politicians have pictured it, but as it actually operates, this book will be invaluable. (John Gray Observer)
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