Ha-Joon Chang's Quotes

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

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.

Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.

I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

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.

When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

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.

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.

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.