<DIV><P>The acclaimed Ha-Joon Chang is a voice of sanity-and wit-in this lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the dominant school of neoliberal economists have spun since the Age of Reagan.<I> 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism</I> uses twenty-three short essays (a few great examples: <I>"There Is No Such Thing as a Free Market,"</I> <I>"The Washing Machine Has Changed the World More than the Internet Has"</I>) to equip readers with an understanding of how global capitalism works, and doesn't, while offering a vision of how we can shape capitalism to humane ends, instead of becoming slaves of the market.</P><br><P><B>Praise for<I> 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism</I>:</B> </P><br><P>"A lively, accessible and provocative book."-<B><I>Sunday Times</I> </B>(UK )</P><br><P>"Chang, befitting his position as an economics professor at Cambridge University, is engagingly thoughtful and opinionated at a much lower decibel level. 'The "truths" peddled by free-market ideologues are based on lazy assumptions and blinkered visions,' he charges."-<B><I>Time</I></B> </P></DIV>