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Being told by the IMF to go easy on austerity is like being told by the to be more tolerant of heretics. - Ha-Joon Chang
" "Being told by the IMF to go easy on austerity is like being told by the to be more tolerant of heretics.
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About Ha-Joon Chang
(Hangul: 장하준; hanja: 張夏准; born 7 October 1963) is a South Korean institutional economist specialising in . Currently a reader in the Political Economy of Development at the University of Cambridge, Chang is the author of several widely discussed policy books, most notably Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (2002). In 2013 Prospect magazine ranked Chang as one of the top 20 World Thinkers.
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