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Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World |
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Author |
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Ha-Joon Chang |
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Allen Lane |
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ISBN |
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9780241585658 |
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Summary |
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In Edible Economics, Chang plates economic ideas alongside stories about food from around the world. For Chang, chocolate is a life-long addiction, but more exciting are the insights it offers into post-industrial knowledge economies; and while okra makes Southern gumbo heart-meltingly smooth, it also speaks of capitalism’s entangled relationship with freedom and unfreedom. Explaining everything from the hidden cost of care work to the misleading language of the free market, Ha-Joon Chang shows that getting to grips with the economy is like learning a recipe; if we understand it, we can change it – and, with it, the world. |