[KS] Ha-Joon Chang has a new website

[Afostercarter at aol.com]

Dear friends and colleagues, 
 
I think and hope the name and work of Ha-Joon  Chang
will be known to many on these lists.
 
Currently teaching in Cambridge (the original one),  he
is one of the most interesting economists alive  today.
At a time when capitalism manifestly isn't working  well,
his heterodox views are all the more important to  hear.
 
He has a new website: _www.hajoonchang.net_ (http://www.hajoonchang.net) 
which is an good place to get to know his work.
 
Don't miss his vivid account of growing up in a poorer  Korea:
_http://www.hajoonchang.net/downloads/Bad%20Samaritans%20Prologue.pdf_ 
(http://www.hajoonchang.net/downloads/Bad%20Samaritans%20Prologue.pdf) 
This would be an excellent text to give to students also.
 
Unbelievably, in 2008 some of his books were blacklisted by the
ROK military from conscripts' reading, as supposedly seditious!
_http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/301730.html_ 
(http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/301730.html) 
 
I don't know whether this idiotic and shameful ban is still in  place,
or if MND has now seen sense. (Of course, it only boosted sales.)
 
Best wishes
Aidan FC
 
 
 
Aidan  Foster-Carter 
Honorary Senior Research  Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds 
University, UK 
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