Ha-Joon Chang

Named by Prospect magazine as one of the Top 20 World Thinkers in 2013, Ha-Joon Chang is a South Korean institutional and development economist. A reader in the Political Economy of Development at the University of Cambridge – and a consultant to the World Bank and various U.N. agencies – Chang is the author of several widely discussed books in which he criticizes neoliberalism and mainstream economics, most notably “Bad Samaritans,” “23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism” and “Kicking Away the Ladder.”