Renowned economist Ha-Jung Chang studies and questions the principles of neoliberalism: free markets and free trade. Are they really that good, and is it really only thanks to them that the current leading countries have succeeded? The book offers an excursion into history, an analysis of modern economics and a forecast. Ha-Joon Chang is an economist and thinker from South Korea, winner of the Gunnar Myrdal Prize and the Leontief Prize. He has advised the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Investment Bank, and a number of UN agencies. Published in Russian for the first time.