Recently, Ha-Joon Chang gave two talks at the Instituto de Economia, in Unicamp, São Paulo Brazil at events commemorating the 50th anniversary of IE.
picture credit: Instituto de Economia
These talks at available at the institute’s YouTube channel:
- Economics, But Not As You Know It,
- Bringing Production Back In – Restructuring The Development Discourse.
The first talk is about what economics is and ought to be, how we define it, how it is taught and practiced and how much the public is aware of it, how it was political economy many years back and now pretends to be non-political and so on.
The second lecture is about development in general. It tells an interesting story in the start about Jakarta, Indonesia where there’s a separate lane for car pooling. Chang says how some rich person would enter the carpool by getting people at the entrance and whose job is to just sit in the car!