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• If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown we should simply ban complex financial instruments, unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run. This is what we do all the time with other products-drugs, cars, electrical products and many others.

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  Running, Business, Long

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• Since the 1980s, we have given the rich a bigger slice of our pie in the belief that they would create more wealth, making the pie bigger than otherwise possible in the long run. The rich got the bigger slice of the pie all right, but they have actually reduced the pace at which the pie is growing.

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  Running, Pie, Long

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• 95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms.

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  Common Sense, Essentials, Details

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• A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes.

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  Jobs, People, Chance

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• People who live in poor countries have to be entrepreneurial even just to survive.

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  Country, People, Poor

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• Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it.

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  Opportunity, Economics, Advantage

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• Manufacturing is the most important...route to prosperity.

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  Important, Prosperity, Routes

  "Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism". Book by Ha-Joon Chang, 2008.

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• The danger is not only that these austerity measures are killing the European economies but also that they threaten the very legitimacy of European democracies - not just directly by threatening the livelihoods of so many people and pushing the economy into a downward spiral, but also indirectly by undermining the legitimacy of the political system through this backdoor rewriting of the social contract.

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  People, Political, Democracy

  "The root of Europe's riots" by Ha-Joon Chang, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2012.

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• Assume the worst about people and you get the worst.

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  People, Assuming, Worst

  Ha-Joon Chang (2010). “23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism”, p.40, Penguin UK

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• The widely accepted assertion that, only if you let markets be will everyone be paid correctly and thus fairly, according to his worth, is a myth. Only when we part with this myth and grasp the political nature of the market and the collective nature of individual productivity will we be able to build a more just society in which historical legacies and collective actions, and not just individual talents and efforts, are properly taken into account in deciding how to reward people.

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  Taken, People, Effort

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• [Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

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  People, Good Man, Secret

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• It takes time and experience to absorb new technologies, so technologically backward producers need a period of protection from international competition during this period of learning. Such protection is costly, because the country is giving up the chance to import better and cheaper products. However, it is a price that has to be paid if it wants to develop advanced industries.

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  Country, Giving Up, Technology

  Ha-Joon Chang (2008). “Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity”, p.47, Random House

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• In manufacturing, where mechanization and the use of chemical processes are much easier, it is easier to raise productivity than in services. In contrast, by their very nature, many service activities are inherently impervious to productivity increase without diluting the quality of the product.

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  Quality, Use, Economics

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• Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time is diminished, so earning a higher income at the cost of working longer hours may reduce the quality of your life. More importantly, the fact that the citizens of a country work longer than others in comparable countries does not necessarily mean that they like working longer hours. They may be compelled to work long hours, even if they actually want to take longer holidays.

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  Country, Holiday, Mean

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• History is on the side of the regulators.

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  Sides, Regulators

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

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• To paraphrase Winston Churchill, capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the other forms.

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  Economic, Form, Worst

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• The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent.

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  Growth, Top 10, Population

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• Financial markets need to become less, not more, efficient.

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  Needs, Financial, Financial Markets

  "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism". Book by Ha-Joon Chang, 2010.

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• It's not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession.

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  Environment, Economic, Currents

  "Austerity has never worked" by Ha-Joon Chang, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2012.

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• There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better.

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  Arguing, Logical, Hyperinflation

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

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• Corruption exists because there is too much, not too little, market.

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  Littles, Too Much, Corruption

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

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• The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

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  Important Events, Printing, Invention

  "Ha-Joon Chang: The net isn't as important as we think". Interview with William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2010.

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• All the alleged key causes of SOE [State-Owned Enterprise] inefficiency - the principal-agent problem, the free-rider problem and the soft budget constraint - are, while real, not unique to state-owned enterprises. Large private-sector firms with dispersed ownership also suffer from the principal-agent problem and the free-rider problem. So, in these two areas, forms of ownership do matter, but the critical divide is not between state and private ownership - it is between concentrated and dispersed ownerships.

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  Real, Unique, Keys

  "Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism". Book by Ha-Joon Chang, en.wikiquote.org. 2008.

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• There is no such thing as a free market.

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  Free Market

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• The higher education system in these countries (US, Korea etc) has become like a theatre in which some people decided to stand to get a better view, promoting the others behind them to stand. Once enough people stand, everyone has to stand, which means no one is getting a better view, while everyone has become more uncomfortable.

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  Country, Mean, Views

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