Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
by Ha-Joon Chang (Author)
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Release Date: December 26, 2007

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Starred Review. In the 1950s, South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world, suffering the aftereffects of decades of brutal Japanese colonialism and war with its northern counterpart. During his childhood, Chang (Kicking Away the Ladder), a respected economist at the University of Cambridge, witnessed the beginnings of Korea’s postwar economic miracle as Gen. Park Chung-Hee’s… ( read more )

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