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Ha-Joon Chang

1963 - Today

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Ha-Joon Chang (; Korean: 장하준; born 7 October 1963) is a South Korean economist and academic. Chang specialises in institutional economics and development, and lectured in economics at the University of Cambridge from 1990-2021 before becoming professor of economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 2022. Chang is the author of several bestselling books on economics and development policy, most notably Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (2002). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ha-Joon Chang has received more than 660,913 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ha-Joon Chang is the 305th most popular economist (down from 280th in 2019), the 244th most popular biography from South Korea (up from 248th in 2019) and the most popular South Korean Economist.

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  • 19

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  • 2.20

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Ha-Joon Chang ranks 305 out of 315Before him are Leonid Abalkin, Walter Block, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, José Ángel Gurría, Henry Charles Carey, and Branko Milanović. After him are Ilham Tohti, Fischer Black, Rose Friedman, Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, Abdi Farah Shirdon, and Henryk Grossman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Ha-Joon Chang ranks 274Before him are David Koepp, Ukyo Katayama, Pavel Vrba, Simon Wright, Christopher Heyerdahl, and Jens Johansson. After him are Daniel Bravo, Johnny Marr, Manuela Di Centa, Jørn Andersen, Yasuharu Takanashi, and Brenda Bakke.

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In South Korea

Among people born in South Korea, Ha-Joon Chang ranks 244 out of 944Before him are Jeon Do-yeon (1973), Song Il-gook (1971), Jung Hae-in (1988), Choi Myung-gil (1962), Chung Won-shik (1928), and Cha Eun-woo (1997). After him are Lee Sun-kyun (1975), Kwon Sang-woo (1976), Yuna Kim (1990), Song Ji-hyo (1981), Han Ji-min (1982), and Lee Seung-gi (1987).

Among ECONOMISTS In South Korea

Among economists born in South Korea, Ha-Joon Chang ranks 1