{"product_id":"9781608193585","title":"23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eThing 1: There is no such thing as free market. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eThing 4: The washing machine has changed the world more than the Internet. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eThing 5: Assume the worst about people, and you get the worst. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eThing 13: Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you've wondered how we did not see the economic collapse coming,\u003cbr\u003e Ha-Joon Chang knows the answer: We didn't ask what they didn't tell us \u003cbr\u003eabout capitalism. This is a lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to\u003cbr\u003e question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the \u003cbr\u003edominant school of neoliberal economists-the apostles of the \u003cbr\u003efreemarket-have spun since the Age of Reagan.\u003cbr\u003eChang, the author of the international bestseller \u003ci\u003eBad Samaritans\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cbr\u003e is one of the world's most respected economists, a voice of sanity-and \u003cbr\u003ewit-in the tradition of John Kenneth Galbraith and Joseph Stiglitz. \u003ci\u003e23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e equips readers with an understanding of how global capitalism works-and\u003cbr\u003e doesn't. In his final chapter, \"How to Rebuild the World,\" Chang offers\u003cbr\u003e a vision of how we can shape capitalism to humane ends, instead of \u003cbr\u003ebecoming slaves of the market.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177608528112,"sku":"9781608193585","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781608193585_p0.jpg?v=1763835043","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781608193585","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}