Ha-Joon Chang Quotes & Sayings
49 most famous Ha-Joon Chang quotes and sayings (economist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.”
“By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.”
“As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.”
“People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.”
“People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.”
“We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.”
“As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.”
“Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.”
“When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.”
“Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will.”
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