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D-Index
48
Citations
23348
World Ranking
1474
National Ranking
162

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Leontief Prize, Global Development and Environment Institute

Overview

Ha-Joon Chang is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and specializes primarily in the field of Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their scholarly activity spans various subfields including General Economics, Econometrics and Finance; Economics and Econometrics; General Health Professions; Sociology and Political Science; and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

Their research addresses a range of topics such as Economic and Technological Innovation, Employment and Welfare Studies, Economic Theory and Policy, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Asian Industrial and Economic Development, and Natural Resources and Economic Development.

Chang has contributed extensively to academic journals with recent notable publications including:

  • "Industrial Policy in the 21st Century" (2020, Development and Change)
  • "Bringing Production Back into Development: An introduction" (2021, European Journal of Development Research)

Other significant papers related to their research or co-authored works by frequent collaborators include:

  • "Defining and conceptualising the commercial determinants of health" (2023, The Lancet)
  • "Natura Non Facit Saltus: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Industrialisation Across Developing Countries" (2021, European Journal of Development Research)
  • "The Missing Dimensions of the Human Capabilities Approach: Collective and Productive" (2021, European Journal of Development Research)

Chang has published in various venues, most frequently in the European Journal of Development Research, followed by SSRN Electronic Journal, The Lancet, Development and Change, and Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics.

Their work is collaborative, featuring frequent co-authors such as Antonio Andreoni, Mohsen Javdani, Anna Gilmore, Alice Fabbri, and Fran Baum.

In addition to journal articles, Chang has authored works in book form, including a publication in the Working Paper Series titled "From fiscal stabilization to economic diversification: A developmental approach to managing resource revenues" published in 2020.

Recognition within the field includes receiving the Leontief Prize from the Global Development and Environment Institute in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Kicking away the ladder : development strategy in historical perspective

    Ha-Joon Chang

  • The political economy of industrial policy

    Ha-Joon Chang

  • Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

    Ha-Joon Chang

  • Should Industrial Policy in Developing Countries Conform to Comparative Advantage or Defy it? A Debate Between Justin Lin and Ha‐Joon Chang

    Justin Lin;Ha-Joon Chang

  • Institutions and economic development: theory, policy and history

    Ha-Joon Chang

  • Breaking the mould: an institutionalist political economy alternative to the neo‐liberal theory of the market and the state

    Ha‐Joon Chang

  • The East Asian Development Experience: The Miracle, the Crisis and the Future

    Ha-Joon Chang

  • The political economy of industrial policy in Korea

    Ha-Joon Chang

  • Reclaiming Development: An Alternative Economic Policy Manual

    Ha-Joon Chang;Llene Grabel

  • Interpreting the Korean crisis: financial liberalisation, industrial policy and corporate governance

    Ha-Joon Chang;Hong-Jae Park;Chul Gyue Yoo

  • Economics: The User's Guide

    Ha-Joon Chang

  • Kicking away the ladder

    Ha-Joon Chang

  • Rethinking development economics

    Ha-Joon Chang;Amit Bhaduri

  • Microfinance and the Illusion of Development: From Hubris to Nemesis in Thirty Years

    Milford Bateman;Ha-Joon Chang

  • 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

    Ha-Joon Chang

  • Korea: The misunderstood crisis

    Ha-Joon Chang

  • Industrial Policy in the 21st Century

    Ha‐Joon Chang;Antonio Andreoni

  • The political economy of industrial policy: Structural interdependencies, policy alignment and conflict management

    Antonio Andreoni;Ha-Joon Chang

  • Kicking Away the Ladder: Infant Industry Promotion in Historical Perspective

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  • Institutional change and economic development

    Ha-Joon Chang

  • Microfinance and the Illusion of Development: From HubrisTo Nemesis in Thirty Years

    Milford Bateman;Milford Bateman;Ha-Joon Chang

Frequent Co-Authors

Justin Yifu Lin
Justin Yifu Lin Peking University
Keun Lee
Keun Lee Chung-Ang University
Robert Rowthorn
Robert Rowthorn University of Cambridge
Ajit Singh
Ajit Singh University of Birmingham
Anne O. Krueger
Anne O. Krueger Johns Hopkins University
Jong-Wha Lee
Jong-Wha Lee Korea University
Partha Dasgupta
Partha Dasgupta University of Cambridge

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