Ha-Joon Chang is a Distinguished Research Professor of economics at SOAS University of London. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, he has published 17 authored books, which include The Political Economy of Industrial Policy (1994), Kicking Away the Ladder (2002), Bad Samaritans (2007), 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism (2010), Economics: The User’s Guide (2014), and Edible Economics (2022). His writings have been published in 46 languages and 48 countries. Worldwide, his books have sold around 2.5 million copies. He is the winner of the 2003 Gunnar Myrdal Prize and the 2005 Wassily Leontief Prize.