“Bookstore shelves are loaded with offerings by economists and commentators seeking to explain, in accessible prose, why free-trade-style globalization is desirable and even indispensable for countries the world over.
Now comes the best riposte from the critics that I have seen. Readers who are leery of open-market orthodoxy will rejoice at the cogency of Bad Samaritans. Ha-Joon Chang has the credentials — he’s on the economics faculty at Cambridge University — and the storytelling skill to make a well-informed, engaging case against the dogma propagated by globalization’s cheerleaders.
Believers in free trade will find that the book forces them to recalibrate and maybe even backpedal a bit.” Read the review at the Washington Post.
