95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential … - Ha-Joon Chang

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Ha-Joon Chang

95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms.

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Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.

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Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rick as what they are -- a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.

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As South Korea shows, active participation in international trade does not require free trade. Indeed, had South Korea pursued free trade and not promoted infant industries, it would not have become a major trading nation. It would still be exporting raw materials (e. g. , tungsten ore, fish, seaweed) or low-technology, low-price products (e. g. , textiles, garments, wigs made with human hair) that used to be its main export items in the 1960s.

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Equality of opportunity is not enough. Unless we create an environment where everyone is guaranteed some minimum capabilities through some guarantee of minimum income, education, and healthcare, we cannot say that we have fair competition. When some people have to run a 100 metre race with sandbags on their legs, the fact that no one is allowed to have a head start does not make the race fair. Equality of opportunity is absolutely necessary but not sufficient in building a genuinely fair and efficient society.

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The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.

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