Ha-Joon Chang
Ha-Joon Chang is a South Korean economist and academic. Chang specialises in institutional economics and development, and lectured in economics at the University of Cambridge from 1990–2021 before becoming professor of economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 2022. Chang is the author of several bestselling books on economics and development policy, most notably Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (2002). In 2013, Prospect magazine ranked Chang as one of the top 20 World Thinkers.
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Far Left
Ha-Joon Chang, a heterodox economist, is in the news for discussing the end of the old economic order as an opening for the left in Jacobin.
The Far Left views Chang as an important voice challenging mainstream economic orthodoxy, providing intellectual backing for the necessity of radical structural economic transformation and a path beyond neoliberalism.