![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, economics also matured in that time. Since then, I got to visit 20 or so new countries, so my food experiences were vastly expanded. However, I’m glad that I wrote it when I wrote it because I made a quick calculation and realized that since 2006, I must have had over 16,000 meals. For one reason or another, I never got to write this book until couple of years ago. My two greatest passions are food and economics, and I thought that this book was a natural pairing of two things that I dearly love. An edited version of the conversation follows. Chang believes that democracy is meaningless in a capitalist economy if not everyone understands basic economics, so he’s using stories about food from around the world to make economic theory more consumable. In this edition of Author Talks, McKinsey Global Publishing’s Raju Narisetti chats with Ha-Joon Chang, an institutional economist and professor at SOAS University of London, about his new book, Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World (PublicAffairs, January 2023). ![]()
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