![]() ![]() This is a difficult question, but I think Primo Levi. What we found was a fun-loving, charismatic and deeply thoughtful conversationalist. We wanted to know more about the thinker behind these global, mind-expanding ideas, so we invited Chang to answer our 21 Questions about life and literature. ![]() What can chocolate, for example, tell us about post-industrial knowledge economies? Or okra, about capitalism's entangled relationship with human liberation? ![]() The idea for the latest book from economics expert and university professor Ha-Joon Chang came to him because he’d been thinking about some heavy subject matter – the fact that, as he says, “within a capitalist society, almost all decisions are bound up with money” – and realised that he could discuss his captivating, world-changing ideas via another subject that was just as close to his heart (and stomach): food.Įdible Economics, Chang says, “is an attempt to reach out as far as possible, to a general audience, to get people interested in economics”, but it’s explained using food analogies. ![]()
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