"A well-researched and readable case against free-trade orthodoxy."—Business Week

"This is a marvelous book.  Well researched, panoramic in its scope, and beautifully written, Bad Samaritans is the perfect riposte to devotees of a one-size-fits-all model of growth and globalization.  I strongly urge you to read it."—Larry Elliott, economics editor, The Guardian (UK)

"Lucid, deeply informed, and enlivened with striking illustrations, this penetrating study could be entitled 'economics in the real world.' Chang reveals the yawning gap between standard doctrines concerning economic development and what really has taken place from the origins of the industrial revolution until today. His incisive analysis shows how, and why, prescriptions based on reigning doctrines have caused severe harm, particularly to the most vulnerable and defenseless, and are likely to continue to do so. He goes on to provide sensible and constructive proposals, solidly based on economic theory and historical evidence, as to how the global economy could be redesigned to proceed on a far more humane and civilized course. And his warnings of what might happen if corrective action is not taken are grim and apt."—Noam Chomsky

"A smart, lively, and provocative book that offers us compelling new ways of looking at globalization."—Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate in economics, 2001

"Every orthodoxy needs effective critics. Ha-Joon Chang is probably the world’s most effective critic of globalization. He does not deny the benefits to developing countries of integration into the world economy. But he draws on the lessons of history to argue that they must be allowed to integrate on their own terms."—Martin Wolf, Financial Times, author of Why Globalization Works

"This is a marvelous book. Well researched, panoramic in its scope and beautifully written, Bad Samaritans is the perfect riposte to devotees of a one-size-fits-all model of growth and globalisation. I strongly urge you to read it."—Larry Elliott, economics editor, the Guardian