《富国的伪善》准确地预言了当下的危机，那是不太合乎事实的，但是这次危机的确证实了《富国的伪善》所提出的两个中心命题。首先，这场危机暴露了新自由主义经济理论的缺陷，而这些理论正是《富国的伪善－自由贸易的迷思与资本主义秘史》所批判的对象。《富国的伪善》揭示了新自由主义政策，比如解除管制、开放市场和私有化，是如何造成了更缓慢的增长、更大的收入差距以及更多的经济不稳定。时至今日，虽然富国的经济绩效也有所恶化，但主要还是发展中国家深受其害。不过，这场危机表明，即便在富国，新自由主义政策也行不通了。危机结束后，新自由主义所取得的经济成绩将会比现在更加糟糕。
其次，这场危机证实了富国的伪善最富戏剧性的一面，而这也正是《富国的伪善－自由贸易的迷思与资本主义秘史》所讨论到的。在书中，我揭露了富国是如何向中国这样的发展中国家宣传一套，却又实践另外一套。在历史上，为了发展经济，富国广泛地运用保护主义、工业和金融业的国有制、管制外国投资、疏于执行知识产权法律等政策，但是现在它们却告诫发展中国家不要采用，因为这些都是“坏”的政策。这种伪善没有成为过去的历史。比如，我在《富国的伪善－自由贸易的迷思与资本主义秘史》第七章中指出，富国为了使发展中国家“量人为出”，强迫它们在金融危机时期实现预算盈余，但是每当富国自己经历金融危机之时，却总是诉诸“寅吃卯粮”的赤字开支政策。

"Lucid, deeply informed, and enlivened with striking illustrations, this penetrating study could be entitled 'Economics in the Real World.' Chang reveals the yawning gap between standard doctrines concerning economic development and what really has taken place from the origins of the industrial revolution until today. His incisive analysis shows how, and why, prescriptions based on reigning doctrines have caused severe harm, particularly to the most vulnerable and defenseless, and are likely to continue to do so."--Noam Chomsky Using irreverent wit, an engagingly personal style, and a battery of examples, Chang blasts holes in the "World I s Flat" orthodoxy of T homas Friedman and other liberal economists who argue that only unfettered capitalism and wide-open international trade can lift struggling nations out of poverty. On the contrary, Chang shows, today's economic superpowers--from the U .S. to Britain to his native Korea--all attained prosperity by shameless protectionism and government intervention in industry. We have conveniently forgotten this fact, telling ourselves a fairy tale about the magic of free trade and--via our proxies such as the World Bank, I nternational Monetary Fund, and World T rade Organization--ramming policies that suit ourselves down the throat of the developing world.

Thing 1: There is no such thing as free market.
Thing 4: The washing machine has changed the world more than the Internet.
Thing 5: Assume the worst about people, and you get the worst.
Thing 13: Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.
If you've wondered how we did not see the economic collapse coming, Ha-Joon Chang knows the answer: We didn't ask what they didn't tell us about capitalism. This is a lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the dominant school of neoliberal economists—the apostles of the freemarket—have spun since the Age of Reagan.
Chang, the author of the international bestseller Bad Samaritans , is one of the world's most respected economists, a voice of sanity—and wit—in the tradition of John Kenneth Galbraith and Joseph Stiglitz. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism equips readers with an understanding of how global capitalism works—and doesn't. In his final chapter, "How to Rebuild the World," Chang offers a vision of how we can shape capitalism to humane ends, instead of becoming slaves of the market.
Ha-Joon Chang teaches in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. His books include the bestselling Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism . His Kicking Away the Ladder received the 2003 Myrdal Prize, and, in 2005, Chang was awarded the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.

How did the rich countries really become rich?  In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development. His conclusions are compelling and disturbing: that developed countries are attempting to 'kick away the ladder' with which they have climbed to the top, thereby preventing developing countries from adopting policies and institutions that they themselves have used.

Ha-Joon Chang provides an overview of the East Asian development model from the 1960s to the present day. He examines its relative success particularly in relation to industrial policy, in contrast to Africa. He takes a fresh look at the crisis that exploded in 1997, criticizing many mainstream explanations and looking in particular at the economy of South Korea.Looking to the future, he makes proposals for industrial policy and how local corporations in a country like Korea should be reformed.