It shows that getting to grips with the economy is like learning a recipe: when we understand it, we can adapt and improve it-and better understand our world. He is an academic who can talk at the same time to specialists and to anyone who has an interest in how the global economy works. Ha-Joon Chang proves yet again that he is one of the most exciting economists at work today.' Owen Jones 'A fascinating stew of food, history and economics. Myth-busting, witty, and thought-provoking, Edible Economics serves up a feast of bold ideas about globalization, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation, and why carrots need not be orange. Ha-Joon Chang is a South Korean development and heterodox economist known for his ideas about the role of manufacturing in the economy. Edible Economicsis a moveable feast of alternative economic ideas wrapped up in witty stories about food from around the world. Ha-Joon Chang Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World Kindle Edition by Ha-Joon Chang (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 109 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 17. For Chang, chocolate is a lifelong addiction, but more exciting are the insights it offers into postindustrial knowledge economies and while okra makes Southern gumbo heart-meltingly smooth, it also speaks of capitalism’s entangled relationship with freedom.
But this intellectual monoculture is bland and unhealthy.īestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang makes challenging economic ideas delicious by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world, using the diverse histories behind familiar food items to explore economic theory. Edible Economics brings the sort of creative fusion that spices up a great kitchen to the often too-disciplined subject of economicsįor decades, a single, free-market philosophy has dominated global economics.
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