About the Speaker:
Prof. Ha-Joon Chang teaches economics at SOAS University of London and is Co-Director of Development Leadership Dialogue (DLD) and the Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation (CSST) at SOAS. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, he has published 17 authored books (five co-authored) and 11 edited books. His main books include The Political Economy of Industrial Policy (1994), Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (2002), Bad Samaritans: Rich Nations, Poor Policies, and the Threat to the Developing World (2007), 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism (2010), Economics: The User’s Guide (2014), and Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World (2022). His writings have been translated and published in 45 languages and 46 countries. Worldwide, his books have sold around 2.5 million copies. He is currently a member of the Committee for Development Policy, the UN’s highest advisory body on development issues, as well as committees overseeing or advising other international organisations and academic bodies. He is the winner of the 2003 Gunnar Myrdal Prize and the 2005 Wassily Leontief Prize.
Seminar 1
Alice Amsden Memorial Lecture: A New New International Economic Order (NNIEO) In A “New” World
Speaker: Prof. Ha-Joon Chang
About Alice Amsden
Alice Amsden was a leading thinker on industrial policy and an expert in economic development. She served as the Barton L. Weller Professor of Political Economy in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Amsden wrote extensively about the process of industrialisation in emerging economies, particularly in Asia. Her work has shaped thinking in how developing countries approach industrialisation and she was influential in understanding the importance of the state as a creator of economic growth. Her work challenged the idea that globalisation had produced generally uniform conditions in which emerging economies could find a one-size-fits-all path to prosperity.
About the Speakers:
Siviwe Mhlana
Siviwe Mhlana is a Researcher at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand. Her work focuses on informality, tax justice, social reproduction and gender. She serves on the board of the Institute for Economic Justice and is a research associate in the Department of Economics and Economic History at Rhodes University. She holds an MA in Social Policy and Labour Studies from Rhodes University and is currently completing her PhD at SOAS University of London. Ruth Castel-Branco Ruth Castel-Branco is a Senior Lecturer at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand. Her research is focused on the casualization of labour, worker organizing and the redistributive role of the state. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Ruth Castel-Branco
Ruth Castel-Branco is a Senior Lecturer at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand. Her research is focused on the casualization of labour, worker organizing and the redistributive role of the state. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of the Witwatersrand.