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“Culture changes with economic development.”

Ha-Joon Chang книга Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

Источник: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008), Ch. 9: 'Lazy Japanese and thieving Germans; Are some cultures incapable of economic development?', Lazy Japanese and thieving Germans, p. 196

“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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Ha-Joon Chang книга Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

Источник: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008), Ch. 7, There is inflation and there is inflation, p. 150

“95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.”

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Ha-Joon Chang (1963) Economist

Lecture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whVf5tuVbus at the RSA about his book 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, September 2010.

“History shows that, at earlier stages of economic development, corruption is difficult to control. The fact that today no country that is very poor is very clean suggests that a country has to rise above absolute poverty before it can significantly reduce venality in the system. When people are poor, it is easy to buy their dignity—starving people find it difficult not to sell their votes for a bag of flour, while under-paid civil servants will often fail to resist the temptation to take a bribe. But it is not just a matter of personal dignity. There are also more structural causes.”

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Ha-Joon Chang книга Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

Источник: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008), Ch. 8: 'Zaire vs Indonesia, Should we turn our backs on corrupt and undemocratic countries?', Prosperity and honesty, p. 166

“Financial markets need to become less, not more, efficient.”

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Ha-Joon Chang книга 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

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23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism (2010)

“The historical picture is clear. Counterfeiting was not invented in modern Asia. When they were backward themselves in terms of knowledge, all of today's rich countries blithely violated other people's patents, trademarks and copyrights. The Swiss 'borrowed' German chemical inventions, while the Germans 'borrowed' English trademarks and the Americans 'borrowed' British copyrighted materials—all without paying what would today be considered 'just' compensation.”

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Ha-Joon Chang книга Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

Источник: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008), Ch. 6, The lawyers get involved, p. 134

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

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Ha-Joon Chang книга Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

Источник: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008), Ch. 8, Democracy and the free market, p. 176

“There is no hard and fast rule as to what makes a successful state-owned enterprise. Therefore, when it comes to SOE management, we need a pragmatic attitude in the spirit of the famous remark by China’s former leader Deng Xiao-ping: 'it does not matter whether the cat is white or black as long as it catches mice.”

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Ha-Joon Chang книга Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

Источник: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008), Ch. 5, Black cat, white cat, p. 121

“Assume the worst about people and you get the worst.”

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Ha-Joon Chang книга 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

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23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism (2010)

“Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor.”

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Ha-Joon Chang книга Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

Prologue, p. 18
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008)

“The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.”

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Ha-Joon Chang книга Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

Prologue, p. 15
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008)

“Almost all of today's rich countries used tariff protection and subsidies to develop their industries. Interestingly, Britain and the USA, the two countries that are supposed to have reached the summit of the world economy through their free-market, free-trade policy, are actually the ones that had most aggressively used protection and subsidies.”

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Ha-Joon Chang (1963) Economist

"Kicking Away the Ladder" http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue15/Chang15.htm, post-autistic economics review, issue no. 15, 1 September 2002, article 3

“Being told by the IMF to go easy on austerity is like being told by the Spanish Inquisition to be more tolerant of heretics.”

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Ha-Joon Chang (1963) Economist

"Watch out, George Osborne: Smith, Marx and even the IMF are after you" http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/08/osborne-marx-imf-austerity-democracy, The Guardian, 8 May 2013.

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

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Ha-Joon Chang книга Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

Prologue, p. 18
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008)
Вариант: Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.

“Global economic competition is a game of unequal players … Consequently, it is only fair that we 'tilt the playing field' in favour of the weaker countries. In practice, this means allowing them to protect and subsidize their producers more vigorously and to put stricter regulations on foreign investment. These countries should also be allowed to protect intellectual property rights less stringently so that they can more actively 'borrow' ideas from more advanced countries.”

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Ha-Joon Chang книга Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

Источник: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008), Ch. 9, Tilting the playing field, p. 219

“We are not smart enough to leave things to the market.”

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Ha-Joon Chang книга 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

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23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism (2010)

“As South Korea shows, active participation in international trade does not require free trade. Indeed, had South Korea pursued free trade and not promoted infant industries, it would not have become a major trading nation. It would still be exporting raw materials (e. g., tungsten ore, fish, seaweed) or low-technology, low-price products (e. g., textiles, garments, wigs made with human hair) that used to be its main export items in the 1960s.”

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Ha-Joon Chang книга Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

Источник: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008), Ch. 3, More trade, fewer ideologies, p. 82