TheRealNews.com is conducting a series of interviews with Ha-Joon Chang, the author of 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism.

As of this writing there are only 4 published segments in the series, and they have gotten about half way through the 23 things.

Some of the things that have been covered so far are:

• There is no such thing as a free market
• Companies should not be run in the interest of their owners
• Most people in rich countries are paid more than they should be
• We do not live in a post-industrial age

There are fascinating insights that come out of the discussions with Ha-Joon Chang.

Ha-Joon Chang (Korean: 장하준, Hanja: 張夏准, b. South Korea in 1963) is one of the leading heterodox economists specialising in development economics. After graduating from Seoul National University Department of Economics, he trained at the University of Cambridge, where he currently works as a Reader in the Political Economy of Development, Chang is the author of several influential policy books, including 2002’s Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective.