Ha-Joon Chang Quotes About Free Market

Quotes about: Free Market

• There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Different, Way, Very Good

  "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang" by John Gray, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2010.

• Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Country, Past, Rich Countries

  Ha-Joon Chang (2008). “Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity”, p.61, Random House

• Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Democracy, Doe, Free Market

  Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism”, Bloomsbury Press

• The free market doesn't exist. Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Choices, Looks, Failing

  "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism: Item #1 -- There's No Such Thing as a Free Market" by Ha-Joon Chang, www.alternet.org. January 30, 2011.

• There is no such thing as a free market.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Free Market

• The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double standards involved in recommending free trade and free market to developing countries.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Country, People, Historical

  Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism”, Bloomsbury Press

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