"Chang, befitting his position as an economics professor at Cambridge University, is engagingly thoughtful and opinionated at a much lower decibel level. 'The "truths" peddled by free-market ideologues are based on lazy assumptions and blinkered visions,' he charges." -- Time "Chang presents an enlightening précis of modern economic thought--and all the places it's gone wrong, urging us to act in order to completely rebuild the world economy: 'This will [make] some readers uncomfortable.[;] it is time to get uncomfortable.'" -- Publishers Weekly "Myth-busting and nicely-written collection of essays" -- Independent (UK) "Shaking Economics 101 assumptions to the core . Eminently accessible, with a clearly liberal (or at least anticonservative) bent, but with surprises along the way--for one, the thought that markets need to become less rather than more efficient." -- Kirkus Reviews "For anyone who wants to understand capitalism not as economists or politicians have pictured it but as it actually operates, this book will be invaluable." -- John Gray, Observer (UK) "A lively, accessible and provocative book.

" -- Sunday Times (UK) "For 40 years, I have worked as a journalist and trained thousands of other journalists from my former perches as a University of Missouri Journalism School professor and as executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors. I have written newspaper articles, magazine features and entire books with heavy doses of economics policy and business behavior. I wish the book 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism had been available when I was a rookie; I would have been more alert to the hands-off-business catechism by which Americans are relentlessly indoctrinated." -- Steven Weinberg, Remapping Debate "I doubt there is one book, written in response to the current economic crisis, that is as fun or easy to read as Ha-Joon Chang's 23 Things They Don't Tell you About Capitalism ." -- AlterNet Executive Editor Don Hazen.