Ha-Joon Chang on Economics

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  • Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
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    What is economics? In the second of our exciting series of events celebrating the return of the popular and accessible Pelican books, economist Ha-Joon Chang will provide the tools that every responsible citizen needs to understand - and address - our current economic woes. Chaired by Guardian columnist Zoe Williams.
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Комментарии • 43

  • @MRDKastel
    @MRDKastel 10 лет назад +31

    The world needs more Ha Joon Chang's. Excellent!

  • @elizabethbennet6825
    @elizabethbennet6825 9 лет назад +23

    Ha Joon Chang's writing is wonderful. He's the best writer I've encountered in years.

  • @rsaorg
    @rsaorg  10 лет назад +27

    '95% of economics is common sense' Ha Joon Chang tells us what we need to know about economics

  • @supertown12
    @supertown12 8 лет назад +36

    Can't believe people need to comment on his accent. I didn't have trouble at all understanding everything he said. Didn't even notice the idiosyncrasies. You should try listening to Slavok Zizek deliver a lecture - yet few comment on his accent because it would be petty and pointless. Just be grateful it's in English and not Korean!

    • @veronicacheaux
      @veronicacheaux 6 лет назад +4

      yes the world doesn't revolve around english speakers!

  • @Achrononmaster
    @Achrononmaster 5 лет назад +3

    Monetary Circuit Theory explains Singapore quite well. In MCT/MMT when the government provides affordable controlled rent housing, universal healthcare and universal education, then the level of private debt is reduced, and in MCT/MMT that means credit money gets a lot more done before there is a debt crisis.

  • @OMGmyFACE
    @OMGmyFACE 9 лет назад +6

    I find it hard to believe that there are people interested in economics that don't find it a waste of time to bitch about this guy's dialect. Admit it, it's finally nice to hear an economist without an English accent. If I have to hear about "Call Mox" one more time...

  • @rashshawn779
    @rashshawn779 8 лет назад +8

    I like his accent, yeah.

  • @nataliegilbert9356
    @nataliegilbert9356 10 лет назад +4

    Very good talk! Im getting his book.

  • @stepananokhin693
    @stepananokhin693 4 года назад +1

    Brilliant! Thanks a lot!

  • @dechenwangmo7938
    @dechenwangmo7938 5 лет назад +1

    2019. Thank you sir.

  • @thatguybloke4849
    @thatguybloke4849 4 года назад +2

    " ..and it is entirely possible for people who are not professional economists to have to sound judgment on economic issues, and sometimes their judgments are even better than professional economists because they may be more grounded in reality and less narrowly focused. I'll go one step further and argue that the willingness on the part of ordinary citizens to challenge professional economists and other experts is a foundation of democracy." Nice one Mr Chang. Check this out: thesovereigneconomy.home.blog

  • @setoelkahfi
    @setoelkahfi Год назад

    The last sentence is the one you're looking for.

  • @LeonVerhulst
    @LeonVerhulst 8 лет назад +2

    Genius.

  • @peterjol
    @peterjol 10 лет назад +2

    More Experts and good speakers are badly needed to explain the Non monetary, resource based economic system being advocated by the Zeitgeist movement and the Venus project.

  • @bbbaaa8364
    @bbbaaa8364 8 лет назад +11

    The renown professor providing amazing speech and couch potatos trying to judge with his accent
    Do you think you know better English then the lecturer ? I think not

  • @UniversalPotentate
    @UniversalPotentate 10 лет назад +1

    The most common sense place to begin is to simply define "The economy."
    It's the means by which we get stuff people need and want to them. The word "economic" implies a form of efficiency.
    Instead of looking at economics through a limited lens or (as Mr. Change suggests) multiple limited lenses, we should simply seek to understand the most efficient ways of fairly distributing resources.
    While I don't agree with all its tenants, at least the Resource Based Economy theory is attempting to do this.

  • @beansofproduction
    @beansofproduction 10 лет назад +3

    Resource based economy.

  • @zabulnaniyang9200
    @zabulnaniyang9200 9 лет назад +1

    In this lecture, he is duplicating the most parts of contents of the lecture on Economics addressed to Seouletes at Seoul Metropolitan Liabray

    • @shan9175
      @shan9175 9 лет назад +1

      yep true, i just watched that one and the intro is the same haha

    • @Curlyhairedasian
      @Curlyhairedasian 6 лет назад +1

      Do you have a link to that? (I speak Korean)

  • @BretLaRoche
    @BretLaRoche 10 лет назад +2

    ha ha ha...he just called taxi owners in SA, gangsters.

    • @parek991
      @parek991 10 лет назад +1

      Because they charge unfair fares. Which makes them sort of gangster like but he is over generalising though, surely not all the taxi owners in SA are charge unfairly.

    • @veronicacheaux
      @veronicacheaux 6 лет назад +1

      Chang is referring to the combi (minibus) taxis, the vast majority controlled by rival cartels.

  • @TemporalOnline
    @TemporalOnline 10 лет назад +1

    I disagree with him only in the point that there are specialists that are rooted in things whose findings or assertions or papers that can be countered with other papers based on DATA and/or were capable of making pinpoint predictions or good model of the past.

  • @goegelwoegel
    @goegelwoegel 10 лет назад +3

    The substitles and transcript are incomprehensible, especially for people whose first language is not English. In order to understand accurate issues, understandable language would be a plus!

    • @brianryu87
      @brianryu87 10 лет назад +7

      I can understand him just fine. I think he speaks perfect English, perhaps better than those with English as their mother tongue. Maybe if you try to focus on what he's trying to say instead of his accent, you'll understand better.

    • @goegelwoegel
      @goegelwoegel 10 лет назад

      brianryu87 It's also because I want to copy and save the transcript in Word. The text is unusable.

    • @KevTheImpaler
      @KevTheImpaler 10 лет назад

      I find him understandable. BTW what subtitles? I can't see no subtitles. Often I have a problem understanding Orientals, especially the Chinese. I know he's Korean. You just have to tune your ear in to his accent.

    • @KevTheImpaler
      @KevTheImpaler 10 лет назад +1

      William Wilde
      Found the transcript button. It's not brilliant. It translated "great deals" as "green beans", and It translated "dominant school of economics" as "Dumanis groovy climax".

    • @goegelwoegel
      @goegelwoegel 10 лет назад

      Kevin Varney Indeed, that's what I meant.

  • @MarkoKraguljac
    @MarkoKraguljac 10 лет назад +4

    To most people economics is tabooed just like sex. They can talk about it but only superficially. Its too important, raw and life-impacting to be discussed calmly, honestly and openly.
    Economics, if it were a science, would be first, most complex and greatest science of all. It would encompass all other sciences.

  • @alex22cod
    @alex22cod 10 лет назад +2

    why does he always say a silent faded you know at the end of every sentences aahahaha ohh ha joon

  • @BretLaRoche
    @BretLaRoche 10 лет назад

    ha ha ha....he just ca

  • @robertwilber1909
    @robertwilber1909 Год назад

    Sounds more like a philosophical sociologist than an economist.

  • @keyarthur4583
    @keyarthur4583 10 лет назад

    this guy fights a valiant battle with a strawman and even then he loses by choking on the straws...

    • @SomeOne1121
      @SomeOne1121 10 лет назад +7

      Explain what you mean. I'm currently studying economics and have been for a few semesters, I think this man is brilliant and most of my dumb "classmates" would do well to listen to him.

    • @veronicacheaux
      @veronicacheaux 6 лет назад

      crickets

  • @Money_Hoarder_95
    @Money_Hoarder_95 9 лет назад

    Fantastic lecture on the studies of Economics, but I wish he keeps his Idiosyncrasies to himself. If you notice sometimes at the end of his sentences he says "yeah".

    • @HamJeong
      @HamJeong 9 лет назад +1

      I wish he would keep*
      idiosyncrasies*

  • @havenbastion
    @havenbastion 10 лет назад +1

    you're very well-spoken, but please, please please, work on a more neutral english accent. your knowledge gets lost in the translation when you're difficult to listen to.