Prof Ha-Joon Chang delivers the Annual Alice Amsden Memorial Lecture. Prof Ha-Joon Chang teaches economics at SOAS University of London and is Co-Director of Development Leadership Dialogue (DLD) and the Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation (CSST) at SOAS. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, he has published 17 authored books (five co-authored) and 11 edited books. His main books include The Political Economy of Industrial Policy (1994), Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (2002), Bad Samaritans: Rich Nations, Poor Policies, and the Threat to the Developing World (2007), 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism (2010), Economics: The User’s Guide (2014), and Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World (2022). His writings have been translated and published in 45 languages and 46 countries. Worldwide, his books have sold around 2.5 million copies. He is currently a member of the Committee for Development Policy, the UN’s highest advisory body on development issues, as well as committees overseeing or advising other international organisations and academic bodies. He is the winner of the 2003 Gunnar Myrdal Prize and the 2005 Wassily Leontief Prize.
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