Free trade and globalization spark debate about their benefits. Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang argues that they do not help. He shows how the free market harms the economies of many countries, and how incompetent neoliberal “experts” devastate entire regions. Western countries use free trade as a tool to establish control over the world. In Chang’s view, free-market ideas became for the West a powerful weapon that surpassed the atomic bomb—allowing it to dominate Africa, Latin America, much of Asia, and Oceania. The author of the book “How the Economy Works.”