Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
by:
Jim Bond (author)
Ha-Joon Chang (author)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781423346869 (1423346866)
Publish date: December 1st 2007
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Edition language: English
I fell into deep depression reading this book. Basically, this book haunts me. Everything, every outlook seems so dismal. Why?Before continuing reading this review, you'd better know a bit about myself. I am essentially a child. My dream, until now, is still damn naive: changing the world. I know, I...
Despite an annoying writing style and some egregious typos ("the these," "casualty" for "causality" and "samller" for "smaller," among others), the substance of this book is a cogent dissection of the neo-liberal religion and the obsession with "globalization" that has brought even the giants of the...
I found this book at the new release section in the library. The title looked a little melodramatic to me, but I read the praise for it, and it came from all sorts of people--a Nobel laureate in economics, Noam Chomsky, a Financial Times editor & pro-globalization guy. So I decided to read it, and...