The first culture shock you will experience as a foreigner is the food. Sometimes you feel that the food is bland, or sometimes you will find the food is way over your spice limit. Such exquisite experience may trigger a ‘hangry’ economist to write Edible Economics. Prof. Ha-Joon Chang also wrote several books on economics using catchy titles such as Kicking Away the Ladder – Development Strategy in Historical Perspective and 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism. Judging based on Edible Economics and several pages of Kicking Away the Ladder, he is focussing on development economics, especially around…