![]() ![]() ![]() For Chang, chocolate is a life-long addiction, but more exciting are the insights it offers into post-industrial knowledge economies and while okra makes Southern gumbo heart-meltingly smooth, it also speaks of capitalism’s entangled relationship with freedom and unfreedom. He uses histories behind familiar food items – where they come from, how they are cooked and consumed, what they mean to different cultures – to explore economic theory. In Edible Economics, Chang makes challenging economic ideas more palatable by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world. Just as eating a wide range of cuisines contributes to a more interesting and balanced diet, so too is it essential we listen to a variety of economic perspectives. ![]() But this is bland and unhealthy – like British food in the 1980s, when bestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang first arrived in the UK from South Korea. Economic thinking – about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more – in its most digestible formįor decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |