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Ha Joon Chang

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.
— Ha Joon Chang history
By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.
— Ha Joon Chang women
As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.
— Ha Joon Chang money
People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
— Ha Joon Chang age
To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.
— Ha Joon Chang success
People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
— Ha Joon Chang change
It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
— Ha Joon Chang hell
As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
— Ha Joon Chang art
Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.
— Ha Joon Chang end
Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will.
— Ha Joon Chang will
I don't drink at lunchtime because I'm very weak at alcohol like most Asians.
— Ha Joon Chang time
When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.
— Ha Joon Chang poor
When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
— Ha Joon Chang change
Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived under free trade. But actually, if you look at the history, this is actually the country that has succeeded most with protectionist policies.
— Ha Joon Chang history
Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
— Ha Joon Chang science
Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.
— Ha Joon Chang change
Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.
— Ha Joon Chang work
The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.
— Ha Joon Chang work
We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
— Ha Joon Chang life
Why do tax havens exist? Because rich countries allow them to. If the U.S. came down on tax havens in the same way they come down on countries that trade with Iran and Cuba, we'd have no tax havens in the world.
— Ha Joon Chang world
I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.
— Ha Joon Chang music
I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it's not supported by evidence.
— Ha Joon Chang work
I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
— Ha Joon Chang art
I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
— Ha Joon Chang work
Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
— Ha Joon Chang war

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