Bad Samaritans
by Ha-Joon Chang | 
Economics
by Ha-Joon Chang | 
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
by Ha-Joon Chang | 
Web of Debt
by Ellen Hodgson Brown | 
The New Road to Serfdom
by Daniel Hannan | 
The Global Minotaur
by Yanis Varoufakis |
The Case Against the Fed
by Murray N. Rothbard | 
The Lords of Creation
by Frederick Lewis Allen | 
The Price of Civilization
by Jeffrey D. Sachs |
America's Great Depression
by Murray N. Rothbard | 
The Globalization Paradox
by Dani Rodrik |
The Long Twentieth Century
by Giovanni Arrighi | 
The Bush Agenda
by Antonia Juhasz |
The Big Con
by Jonathan Chait | 
Owning the Earth
by Andro Linklater |
The Origin of Capitalism
by Ellen Meiksins Wood | 
Bourgeois Dignity
by Deirdre N. McCloskey | 
Global Capitalism
by Jeffry A. Frieden |
The Failure of the New Economics
by Henry Hazlitt |
Peddling Prosperity
by Paul Krugman |
How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative 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 a historical approach, Dr 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' with which they have climbed to the top, thereby preventing developing counties from adopting policies and institutions that they themselves have used. This book is the winner of the 2003 Myrdal Prize, European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy.