{"id":5954,"date":"2011-04-09T08:54:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T13:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=5954"},"modified":"2011-04-09T09:00:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T14:00:52","slug":"23-things-they-dont-tell-you-about-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/04\/09\/23-things-they-dont-tell-you-about-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"23 Things They Don&#8217;t Tell You About Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TheRealNews.com is conducting a <a title=\"Links to the series of interviews\" href=\"http:\/\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=33&amp;Itemid=74&amp;jumival=708\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>series of interviews with Ha-Joon Chang<\/strong><\/a>, the author of <em><strong>23 Things They Don&#8217;t Tell You About Capitalism<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing there are only 4 published segments in the series, and they have gotten about half way through the 23 things.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the things that have been covered so far are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is no such thing as a free market<\/li>\n<li>Companies should not be run in the interest of their owners<\/li>\n<li>Most people in rich countries are paid more than they should be<\/li>\n<li>We do not live in a post-industrial age<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are fascinating insights that come out of the discussions with Ha-Joon Chang.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Ha-Joon Chang<\/strong> (<a title=\"Korean language\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/\/wiki\/index.php?title=Korean_language\">Korean<\/a>: \uc7a5\ud558\uc900, <a title=\"Hanja\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/\/wiki\/index.php?title=Hanja\">Hanja<\/a>: \u5f35\u590f\u51c6, b. <a title=\"South Korea\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/\/wiki\/index.php?title=South_Korea\">South Korea<\/a> in 1963) is one of the leading heterodox economists specialising in <a title=\"Development economics\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/\/wiki\/index.php?title=Development_economics\">development economics<\/a>. After graduating from <a title=\"Seoul National University\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/\/wiki\/index.php?title=Seoul_National_University\">Seoul National University<\/a> Department of Economics, he trained at the <a title=\"University of Cambridge\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/\/wiki\/index.php?title=University_of_Cambridge\">University of Cambridge<\/a>,  where he currently works as a Reader in the Political Economy of  Development, Chang is the author of several influential policy books,  including 2002&#8217;s <em>Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TheRealNews.com is conducting a series of interviews with Ha-Joon Chang, the author of 23 Things They Don&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5956,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954\/revisions\/5956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}