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23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

by Ha-Joon Chang

  • FINISHED
  • Finished April 2021
  • First published 2010

economics

Chang challenges common beliefs about free markets, such as that they make poor countries rich or that trickle-down works.   Each short chapter takes one claim and argues against it with history and data.