Economist (professor at the University of Cambridge)
| Life | 1963 |
| Era | 현대 |
| Clan | 인동 장씨 |
Chang Ha-joon (born 1963) is a South Korean-born economist who studied economics at Seoul National University before earning his master's and doctoral degrees at the University of Cambridge, where he went on to teach development political economy. His father, Chang Jae-sik, held senior positions in the South Korean government.
He is best known for the books Kicking Away the Ladder (2003) and Bad Samaritans (2007), through which he critiqued neoliberal free-market orthodoxy and developed what he calls “institutionalist political economy,” emphasizing economic history and socio-political factors over mainstream theory. He was the youngest-ever recipient of the Gunnar Myrdal Prize from the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (2003) and the Leontief Prize from the Global Development and Environment Institute (2005), and is widely regarded as an influential economist both in Korea and internationally.