Chang Ha-joon

Ha-Joon Chang (2011)

Ha-Joon Chang ( kor. 장하준 , 張 夏 准 ; born October 7, 1963 in Seoul ) is a South Korean economist specializing in development policy .

Life

The heterodox economist attended school in his hometown Seoul and then began studying economics at Seoul National University in 1982 , which he continued at Cambridge University from 1986 . In 1992 he received his doctorate and has been teaching and researching at the Faculty of Economics there, since 2005 as Reader in the Political Economy of Development. Chang works as a consultant for many international organizations such as the UN , World Bank and Asian Development Bank .

Honors

• 2003: Gunnar Myrdal Prize of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy for Kicking Away the Ladder
• 2005: Leontief Prize

Publications

• The Political Economy of Industrial Policy. Macmillan, London / Basingstoke 1994
• Kicking away the ladder. Policies and institutions for economic development in historical perspective. Anthem Press, London 2002, ISBN 1-84331-027-9
  • Kicking Away the Ladder: How the Economic and Intellectual Histories of Capitalism Have Been Re-Written to Justify Neo-Liberal Capitalism . In: post-autistic economics review. No. 15, September 4, 2002
• with Jang-Sup Shin: Restructuring Korea Inc. Routledge / Curzon, London 2003
• Globalization, Economic Development and The Role of the State. Zed Press, London 2003
• with Duncan Green: The Northern WTO Agenda on Investment. Do as We Say, Not as We Did. South Center, Geneva 2003
  • Investment negotiations in the WTO as an agenda for the north. “Listen to our words, forget our deeds!” WEED, Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-937383-01-8
• (Ed.): Rethinking development economics. London 2003, ISBN 1-84331-110-0
• with Ilene Grabel: Reclaiming Development. An Alternative Economic Policy Manual. Zed Press, London 2004
• The East Asian Development Experience. The Miracle, the Crisis, and the Future. Zed Press, London 2006
• Bad Samaritans. Rich Nations, Poor Policies and the Threat to the Developing World. Random House, London 2007, ISBN 190521135X
• 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism. Allen Lane, London 2010, ISBN 1846143284
  • 23 lies they tell us about capitalism. Bertelsmann, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-570-10060-8 ; Goldmann, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-442-15728-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Chang Ha-joon in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ha-Joon Chang on the Cambridge University website
• Personal website
• Ha-Joon Chang's columns in the Guardian
• Cambridge economist Chang: The Market Infidel , portrait by David Böcking in Spiegel Online , January 3, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ^ Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. ase.tufts.edu, accessed October 12, 2015 . 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Chang is the family name here, Ha-joon is the first name.