Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (Anthem World Economics Series)

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Prof. Ha-Joon Chang of Cambridge argues in this book that developed countries used many measures for promoting their economy in their earlier days of development, which they are now blaming for making the economy in developing countries worse and that in the world unfair. But, the author reverses this logic. According to his arguments, such suggestions from developed countries are in fact making the economy in developing countries lagged behind and such a rule of game in the world economy now is rather unfair to them because developing countries even can be punished due to their using of the very same methods which developed ones used in the past.

As a critique of neo-liberal market fundamentalism preached by establishement economics and its institutions, this book is very iconoclastic because it gives readers sophisticated understanding of the real history of industrial development as well as pleasure of reading an academically original and creative work.

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