Ha-Joon Chang Short Quotes

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Assume the worst about people and you get the worst.

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We are not smart enough to leave things to the market.

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Financial markets need to become less, not more, efficient.

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Manufacturing is the most important... route to prosperity.

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Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.

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Corruption exists because there is too much, not too little, market.

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Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.

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Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.

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The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge.

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Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.

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Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor.

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The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.

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Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them.

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There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better.

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