Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective

How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative new study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain "good policies" and "good institutions", seen today as necessary for economic development. Adopting an historical approach, Chang finds that the economic evolution of now-developed countries differed dramatically from the procedures that they now recommend to poorer nations. His conclusions are compelling and disturbing: that developed countries are attempting to "kick away the ladder" by which they have climbed to the top, thereby preventing developing counties from adopting policies and institutions that they themselves used. more

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-05-2009; a heterodox economics classic; Among heterodox economists, Ha-Joon Chang is a heavyweight. His winning of the Leontief Prize (awarded by the Global Development and Environment Institute) and the Gunnar Myrdal Prize (awarded by European Association for Evolutionary...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-01-2008; Brilliant study of economic policy; In this pioneering book, Ha-Joon Chang, Assistant Director of Development Studies at Cambridge University, explores development strategies in theory and practice. First, he studies how the developed countries became developed using...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-08-2008; The practical effects of free trade and "comparative advantage" for the undeveloped world; Ha-Joon Chang argues that free trade and the principle of comparative advantage were used by advanced industrial countries to keep undeveloped countries on agriculture instead of developing their own manufactures (which would have made...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-08-2008; The practical effects of free trade and "comparative advantage" for the undeveloped world; Ha-Joon Chang argues that the principle of comparative advantage was used by advanced industrial countries to keep undeveloped countries on agriculture instead of developing their own manufactures (which would have made them competition...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-05-2009; a heterodox economics classic; Among heterodox economists, Ha-Joon Chang is a heavyweight. His winning of the Leontief Prize (awarded by the Global Development and Environment Institute) and the Gunnar Myrdal Prize (awarded by European Association for Evolutionary...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-29-2006; Decent discussion of economic growth historically; [NOTE: There is another review of this book here that I wrote a few years ago with an old account that I can't manage to log into. Please disregard that earlier review, and any Amazon staff should delete it] In this book, Ha-Joon Chang...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-31-2004; Reconsidering my 2 star review; I previously gave this book two stars and a very negative review because I felt Chang's argument relied on the assumption that correlation proves causation (I am editing that review, as Amazon no longer allows a user to post multiple...; read full review | report as inappropriate