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BAD SAMARITANS(THE MYTH OF FREE TRADE AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF CAPITALISM)

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  • ISBN:9781596913998
  • 开 本:16开 精装
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  • 出版社:BLOOMSBURY
  • 页数:276页
  • 作者:HA-JOON CHANG
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  • 2008-01-01 第1版
  • 2008-01-01 第1次印刷
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     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 sacrosanct--but developed our own industries by studiously copying others' technologies. We insist that centrally planned economies stifle growth--but many developing countries had higher GDP growth before they were pressured into deregulating their economies.

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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, today's economic superpowers--from the United States to Britain to his native South Korea--all 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 and--via our proxies such as the World Bank,International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization-ramming 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 sacrosanct--but developed our own industries by studiously copying others' technologies. We insist that centrally planned economies stifle growth--but many developing countries had higher GDP growth before they were pressured into deregulating their economies.

目录

Acknowledgements
PROLOGUE
Mozambique's economic miracle
How to escape poverty
1 The Lexus and the olive tree revisited
  Myths and facts about globalization
2 The double life of Daniel Defoe
  How did the rich countries become rich?
3 My six-year-old son should get a job
  Is free trade always the answer?
4 The Finn and the elephant
  Should we regulate foreign investment?
5 Man exploits man
  Private enterprise good, public enterprise bad?
6 Windows 98 in 1997
  Is it wrong to 'borrow' ideas?
7 Mission impossible?
  Can financial prudence go too far?
8 Zaire vs Indonesia
  Should we turn our backs on corrupt and undemocratic countries?
9 Lazy Japanese and thieving Germans
  Are some cultures incapable of economic development?
EPILOGUE
Sao Paulo, October 2037
Can things get better?
Notes
Index