The Ha-Joon Chang
Framework
Kicking Away the Ladder & Industrial Policy
Ha-Joon Chang represents one of the most distinctive thinking patterns in their field. Ha-Joon Chang's approach — captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask. The kicking away the ladder & industrial policy framework distils Ha-Joon Chang's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds. Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Ha-Joon Chang made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Ha-Joon Chang's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.
A glimpse of Ha-Joon Chang's thinking.
The rules that rich countries now prescribe to developing nations are almost never the rules those same countries followed when they were developing — this is not coincidence, it is strategy. Markets are political constructs embedded in institutions, and the question is never *market vs. state* but *which institutions, protecting whose interests, at what stage of development*. Heterodox economics is not contrarianism; it is the recovery of suppressed historical memory against the amnesia of the powerful.
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.
"Which country that is now telling you to liberalize actually liberalized at your stage of development — and what is the evidence for that claim?"
4 more questions in Ha-Joon Chang's voice are unlocked with purchase.
Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.
The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Ha-Joon Chang actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.
Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.
- ✦Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in Ha-Joon Chang's documented worldview
- ✦Five signature mental models — each named, with concrete examples from their work
- ✦Decision heuristics — the concrete rules they actually used
- ✦Signature questions — five questions that sound like Ha-Joon Chang, not a generic MBA
- ✦What they would NOT do — the anti-patterns this framework rejects
- ✦Copy-paste activation prompt — drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
- ✦Worked example — the framework applied to a realistic scenario
- →ha-joon-chang.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to
~/.claude/skills/ - →ha-joon-chang-framework.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Ha-Joon Chang. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.