A review by frogwithlittlehammer
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang

Did not finish book. Stopped at 22%.

My unholy trinity looks like Santana, Quinn, and Brittany so his can look like IMF, WB, and WTO 😇✌️

I’m sorry to say it brother but you need a glass of water while reading because man writes dryer than dry dry ruins and bone dry dunes COMBINED. I think he thought he was being edgy like all economists do 😅 or maybe it’s more that he gives neoliberals the benefit of the doubt in assuming that they actually know what a free market is here… but they really don’t I promise you that. Anyway.

Big critique is that his chains of reasoning kind of exist in individual vacuums?? Like hello, slavery being a factor of globalization is effectively ignored altogether??? Need to find a woman economist 🤔