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. Adopting a historical approach, Dr Chang
finds that the economic evolution of now-developed countries
differed dramatically from the procedures that they now recommend
to poorer nations. 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 counties from adopting policies and institutions that
they themselves have used. This book is the winner of the 2003
Myrdal Prize, European Association of Evolutionary Political
Economy. For more information please see the book website: http:
//kickingawaytheladder.anthempressblog.com
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