Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism, London, Penguin Books, 2010

Ha-Joon Chang’s 2010 book deserves probably to be called the Inconvenient Truth of today’s economics, although its reception has so far been scarce, compared to the Nobel Peace Prize and Academy Award that the above-quoted book/documentary brought to the former vice-president of the United States, Al Gore. Hidden behind the ironic, conspiracy theory kind of title 23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism, there is a warning concerning the ills that a malfunction of capitalism or the misunderstanding of some basic principles of the market can bring about...