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Ha-Joon Chang
kicking-away-the-ladder; institutional development.
Ha-Joon Chang is a professor of economics at SOAS, University of London, having previously spent decades at Cambridge. He built his reputation challenging free-market orthodoxy through institutional and historical analysis of development. His 'kicking-away-the-ladder' thesis holds that wealthy nations climbed to prosperity via industrial policy and tariffs, then promoted free-trade rules that prevent poorer nations from replicating that path.
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Attributed to Ha-Joon Chang
Mental models, principles, and operating frameworks extracted from sources where Ha-Joon is the credited author or speaker.
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Economic Literacy as Civic Defence
If you don't know any economics, you don't really know what you're voting for.
Self-Mastery·from Who's Really Crashing the Economy?
Horses for Courses Economics
Match the economic school to the question — no single theory explains everything.
Strategy·from Who's Really Crashing the Economy?
Imitate Whole Models, Not Slogans
Copy the full toolkit or don't copy at all.
Strategy·from Who's Really Crashing the Economy?
Sacrifice the Present for the Future Investment Doctrine
Economic catch-up is a society choosing to under-consume now so it can invest more.
Strategy·from Who's Really Crashing the Economy?
Short-Term Shareholder Value Trap
When average holding periods collapse, ownership becomes extraction.
Finance·from Who's Really Crashing the Economy?
Tax Quality Over Quantity
What matters is not the tax rate but what the tax buys.
Finance·from Who's Really Crashing the Economy?
The Household Fallacy
A national economy is not a household — your spending is someone else's income.
Finance·from Who's Really Crashing the Economy?
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Framework distribution
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Strategy3 frameworks · 42.9%
Finance3 frameworks · 42.9%
Self-Mastery1 framework · -0.1%
Bibliography
Sources by Ha-Joon Chang
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Appears alongside
Top neighbors of Ha-Joon Chang
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Abhijit Banerjee
RCT development framework; Poor Economics.
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02Adam Smith
invisible hand; division of labor.
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03Albert Hirschman
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty; linkages.
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04Alfred Marshall
supply-and-demand; consumer surplus.
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05Alvin Roth
market design; matching theory.
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06Amartya Sen
capability approach; social choice.
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07Amos Tversky
heuristics-and-biases (would-be Nobel; foundational to behavioral econ).
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08Angus Deaton
consumption and welfare measurement.
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Last updated
10 May 2026