Ha-Joon Chang Quotes About Free Market
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Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.
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There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that.
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The free market doesn't exist. Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.
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There is no such thing as a free market.
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Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past.
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The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double standards involved in recommending free trade and free market to developing countries.
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