23 things they don t tell you about capitalism (edición en inglés)
de Ha-joon Chang
Ha-Joon Chang dispels the myths and prejudices that have come to dominate our understanding of how the world works. He succeeds in both setting the historical record straight (the washing machine has changed the world more than the internet; the US does not have the highest living standard in the world; people in poor countries are more entrepreneurial than people in rich countries) and persuading us of the consequences of his analysis (making rich people richer doesnt make the rest of us richer; companies should not be run in the interest of their owners; financial markets need to become less, not more, efficient). As Chang shows above all else, all economic choices are political ones, and it is time we started to be honest about them.
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- Fecha de lanzamiento: 16/09/2011
- Año de edición: 2011
- ISBN: 9780141047973
- Encuadernación: Tapa blanda bolsillo
- Idioma: INGLÉS
- Editorial: PENGUIN
23 things they don t tell you about capitalism (edición en inglés)
- 23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism
- Thing 1: There is no such thing as a free market
- What they tell you
- What they don’t tell you
- Labour ought to be free
- Piano wires and kungfu masters
- Is free trade fair?
- I don’t think we are in France any more
- Thing 2: Companies should not be run in the interest of their owners
- What they tell you
- What they don’t tell you
- Karl Marx defends capitalism
- The death of the capitalist class
- The holy grail or an unholy alliance?
- The dumbest idea in the world
- Thing 3: Most people in rich countries are paid more than they should be
- What they tell you
- What they don’t tell you
- Drive straight on … or dodge the cow (and the rickshaw as well)
- Elephant in the room
- Are poor countries poor because of their poor people?
- Thing 4: The washing machine has changed the world more than the internet has
- What they tell you
- What they don’t tell you
- Everyone has a maid in Latin America
- Enter the washing machine
- The washing machine beats the internet
- The internet is beaten by the telegraph
- Putting changes into perspective
- Thing 5: Assume the worst about people and you get the worst
- What they tell you
- What they don’t tell you
- How (not) to run a company
- Selfish butchers and bakers
- We may not be angels, but …
- Moral behaviour as an optical illusion?
- Thing 6: Greater macroeconomic stability has no made the world economy more stable.
- What they tell you
- What they don’t tell you
- That’s where the money is – or is it?
- How bad is inflation?
- False stability
- Thing 7: Free-market policies rarely make poor countries rich
- What they tell you
- What they don’t tell you
- Two basket cases
- Dead presidents don’t talk
- Do as I say, not as I did
- A pro-growth doctrine that reduces growth
- Thing 8: Capital has a nationality
- What they tell you
- What they don’t tell you
- Carlos Ghosn lives globalization
- Chrysler – American, German, American (again) and (becoming) Italian
- Why is there a home-country bias?
- ‘Prince of darkness’ changes his mind
- Thing 9: We do not live in a post-industrial age
- What they tell you
- What they don’t tell you
- Is there anything that is not made in China?
- Computers and haircuts: why de-industrialization happens
- Should we worry about de-industrialization?
- Post-industrial fantasies
- Thing 10: The US does not have the highest living standard in the world
- What they tell you
- What they don’t tell you
- The roads are not paved with gold
- Americans just live better …
- … or do they?
- Thing 11: Africa is not destined for underdevelopment
- What they tell you
- What they don’t tell you
- The world according to Sarah Palin … or was it The Rescuers?
- An African growth tragedy?
- Can Africa change its geography and history?
- Thing 12: Governments can pick winners
- What they tell you
- What they don’t tell you
- The worst business proposition in human history
- Picking losers?
- Winners are being picked all the time
- Thing 13: Making rich people richer doesn’t make the rest of us richer
- What they tell you
- What they don’t tell you
- The ghost of Stalin – or is it Preobrazhensky?
- Capitalists vs. workers
- The fall and rise of pro-rich policies
- Water that does not trickle down
- Thing 14: US managers are over-priced
- What they tell you
- What they don’t tell you
- Executive pay and the politics of class envy
- Heads I win, tails you lose
- Thing 15: People in poor countries are more entrepreneurial than people in rich countries
- What they tell you
- What they don’t tell you
- The problem with the French …
- Great expectations – microfinance enters the scene
- The grand illusion
- No more heroes any more
- Thing 16: We are not smart enough to leave things to the market
- What they tell you
- What they don’t tell you
- Markets may fail, but …
- If you’re so smart …
- The last Renaissance Man
- The government need not know better
- Thing 17: More education in itself is not going to make a country richer
- What they tell you
- What they don’t tell you
- Education, education, education
- We don’t need no education …
- Don’t know much about history, don’t know much biology
- How about the knowledge economy?
- The Swiss paradox
- Education vs. enterprise
- Thing 18: What is good for General Motors is not necessarily good for the United States
- What they tell you
- What they don’t tell you
- How Detroit won the war
- How the mighty has fallen
- 299 permits
- Thing 19: Despite the fall of communism, we are still living in planned economies
- What they tell you
- What they don’t tell you
- Upper Volta with rockets
- There is planning and there is planning
- To plan or not to plan – that is not the question
- Thing 20: Equality of opportunity may not be fair
- What they tell you
- What they don’t tell you
- More Catholic than the Pope?
- Markets liberate?
- The end of apartheid and the cappuccino society
- The curious case of Alejandro Toledo
- Thing 21: Big government makes people more open to change
- What they tell you
- What they don’t tell you
- The oldest profession in the world?
- The welfare state is the bankruptcy law for workers
- Countries with bigger governments can grow faster
- Thing 22: Financial markets need to become less, not more, efficient
- What they tell you
- What they don’t tell you
- Three useless phrases
- New engine of growth?
- Weapons of financial mass destruction?
- Mind the gap
- Thing 23: Good economic policy does not require good economists
- What they tell you
- What they don’t tell you
- Economic miracle without economists
- How come nobody could foresee it?
- How about the ‘other’ economists?
- Conclusion: How to rebuild the world economy
- Notes
- Index
