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Conclusion: How to rebuild the world economy

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there is nothing "natural" about the situation we are in now (post-2008 financial crisis)--we need to understand how we got here and stop voting for neoliberal policies that will only hurt us in the end (in a nutshell)

Chang, H. (2011). Conclusion: How to rebuild the world economy. In Chang, H. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism. Bloomsbury Press, pp. 252-263

But we are material beings and cannot live on ideas, however great the knowledge economy may sound. Morever, we have always lived in a knowledge economy in the sense that it has always been a command over superior knowledge, rather than the physical nature of activities, that has ultimately decided which country is rich or poor. [...]

his argument here is that countries need to shift away from services, which are 1) not tradeable and 2) often highly dependent and even parasitic on the manufacturing sector, and instead invest more in infrastructure (more basic than the Internet) and industry

by Ha-Joon Chang 7 years, 7 months ago

But we are material beings and cannot live on ideas, however great the knowledge economy may sound. Morever, we have always lived in a knowledge economy in the sense that it has always been a command over superior knowledge, rather than the physical nature of activities, that has ultimately decided which country is rich or poor. [...]

his argument here is that countries need to shift away from services, which are 1) not tradeable and 2) often highly dependent and even parasitic on the manufacturing sector, and instead invest more in infrastructure (more basic than the Internet) and industry

by Ha-Joon Chang 7 years, 7 months ago