Ha-Joon Chang

Chang Ha - joon ( Kor. 장하준 ,张 夏 准; born October 7, 1963 in Seoul) is a South Korean economist with the focus on development policy.

The heterodox economist attended school in his hometown of Seoul, and then began in 1982 his studies in economics at the Seoul National University, which he continued at the University of Cambridge since 1986. In 1992 he was a PhD and teaches and researches since there at the Faculty of Economics, since 2005 as a Reader in the Political Economy of Development. Chang works as a consultant for many international organizations such as the UN, World Bank and Asian Development Bank. For his book Kicking Away the Ladder, he received the 2003 Gunnar Myrdal - Prize of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. In 2005 he was awarded the Leontief Prize of the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University.

Publications

• The Political Economy of Industrial Policy. Macmillan, London / Basingstoke 1994
• Kicking away the ladder. Policies and institutions for economic development in historical perspective. Anthem Press, London 2002, ISBN 1-84331-027-9 Kicking Away the Ladder: How the Economic and Intellectual Histories of Capitalism Have Been Re - Written to Justify Neo - Liberal Capitalism. In: post- autistic economics review. No. 15, September 4, 2002

• Investment negotiations in the WTO agenda of the North. "Listen to our words, our deeds forget! " WEED, Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-937383-01-8

• 23 lies they tell us about capitalism. Bertelsmann, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-570-10060-8; Goldmann, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-442-15728-0