23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism

Thing 1: There is no such thing as free market.

Thing 4: The washing machine has changed the world more than the Internet.

Thing 5: Assume the worst about people, and you get the worst.

Thing 13: Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.

If you've wondered how we did not see the economic collapse coming,
Ha-Joon Chang knows the answer: We didn't ask what they didn't tell us
about capitalism. This is a lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to
question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the
dominant school of neoliberal economists-the apostles of the
freemarket-have spun since the Age of Reagan.
Chang, the author of the international bestseller Bad Samaritans,
is one of the world's most respected economists, a voice of sanity-and
wit-in the tradition of John Kenneth Galbraith and Joseph Stiglitz. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
equips readers with an understanding of how global capitalism works-and
doesn't. In his final chapter, "How to Rebuild the World," Chang offers
a vision of how we can shape capitalism to humane ends, instead of
becoming slaves of the market.