The Free Market Myth

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

If you can get used to this guy's slightly irritating delivery, most RevLefters will enjoy this video of a lecture exposing the Free Market myth, given by a leading bourgeois economist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5-ojv5-b3U

His jokes are quite good, too.

[Zurdito]

According to the conventional wisdom popularized by Thomas Friedman, countries can grow rich only by means of unfettered capitalism and pure free trade. In his controversial book, Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism, Ha-Joon Chang takes aim at this orthodoxy.


Not sure about the two highlighted bits.

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

Sure, but I was referring only to the video.

But, his thesis is controversial for 'mainstream' opinion.