About the book: year / Is free trade good? Does globalization benefit nations? Can an open market be beneficial? Leading Korean economist Ha Joon Chang believes not. Using numerous examples, he shows how the free market leads to the destruction and devastation of dozens of economies around the world, how neoliberal “experts” ruin entire continents with their incompetence, and large Western countries are introducing free trade, using it as their weapon in the struggle for power over the world. The ideas of the free market, says Ha Jun Chang, turned out to be a weapon more powerful for the West than the atomic bomb. It was with the help of the libertarian theory of “non-intervention of the state” that they managed to subjugate Africa and Latin America, most of Asia and Oceania. From the author of the bestseller “How the Economy Works”».