For decades, global economics was dominated by a single free market doctrine. This, however, is bland and unhealthy, similar to British food in the 1980s, when popular novelist and economist Ha-Joon Chang first arrived in the UK from South Korea. Just as eating a variety of cuisines helps to a more interesting and balanced diet, listening to a diversity of economic ideas is crucial. Chang serves up difficult economic ideas alongside anecdotes about food from around the world in Edible Economics. He explores economic theory by delving into the histories of common foods - where they come from, how they are cooked and consumed, and what they mean to different cultures. Chocolate is a lifelong addiction for Chang, but the insights it provides into post-industrial information economies are even more interesting; and while okra makes Southern gumbo heart-meltingly silky, it also speaks of capitalism's complex relationship with freedom and unfreedom. Ha-Joon Chang delivers up an easy-to-digest explanation of everything from the hidden cost of care work to the false jargon of the free market while cooking meals like anchovy and egg toast, Gambas al Ajillo, and Korean dotori mook. Myth-busting, witty and thought-provoking, Edible Economics shows that getting to grips with the economy is like learning a recipe: if we understand it, we can change it - and, with it, the world.