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Harnessing Globalization : a Review of East Asian Case Histories.

At a time of robust worldwide debates on globalization, this compact volume shows: how successful each of the East Asian economies have been in harnessing globalization by appropriate and alternative means to catch up with the advanced economies and; what implications can be drawn to assess Chinese...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wan, Henry Y.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface
  • pt. I. Harnessing globalization
  • how has East Asia done it. The pre-conditions : East Asia missed out in launching the industrial revolution (brief note 1). Article 1. A note on knowledge capital and the Needham paradox / Academia Economic Papers. The second chance after WWII: the record of East Asia among the late-comers (brief note 2). Article 2. On the mechanism of catching up, jointly with Man-lui Lau / European Economic Review. Japan pioneered industrialization via institutional development: the post-WWII transformation of corporate governance (brief note 3). Article 3. Nipponized Confucian ethos or incentive-compatible institutional design: notes on Morishima, "Why has Japan succeeded?" / International Economic Journal. East Asian development : Japan as the growth pole (brief note 4). Article 4. Comments on Chakravarty's 'Marxist economics and contemporary developing economies' / Cambridge Journal of Economics. Deregulation in reform : the taking-off of Korean growth (brief note 5). Article 5. Reform unleashed Korean growth / German Economic Review. Moving along the upper bound : Singapore reaching out for its potential (brief note 6). Article 6. The Singaporean economy: prospects for the 21st century / The Singapore Economic Review. To have and have not an industrial policy : the Hong Kong-Taiwan comparison (brief note 7). Article 7. Industrial targeting: lessons from past errors and successes of Hong Kong and Taiwan, jointly with Erik Thorbecke and An-Chi Tung / The World Economy. The win-win game of intermediation : the Hong Kong PRC connection (brief note 8). Article 8. Hong Kong: the fragile economy of Middlemen, jointly with Jason Weisman / Review of International Economics. Challenges for a billion-people economy: a prognosis for the development of the PRC (brief note 9). Article 9. How size matters to future Chinese growth: some trade-theoretic considerations / Critical Issues in China's Growth and Development. Interdependent evolution : the North-South interactions (brief note 10). Article 10. Emulative development through trade expansion: East Asian evidence, jointly with P.H. Van / International Trade Policy and the Pacific Rim
  • pt. II. East Asia in context. Contrast among the Chinese economies (brief note 11). Article 11. Six challenges facing the Chinese economies, three Chinese economies
  • China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: challenges and opportunities. Alternative approaches for the industrial structure (brief note 12). Article 12. Specialization pattern and multistaged growth: Korea and Taiwan compared, jointly with Toshiyasu Kato / Review of Development Economics. Comparative worldwide development records (brief note 13). Article 13. Towards a unified theory of the growth process, jointly with Erik Thorbecke / WIDER Angle
  • pt. III. Some debates in development theory. Must trade retard growth for the developing economies? (brief note 14). Article 14. Why trade matters to development: a learning model / Economic Theory and International Trade: Essays in Honour of Murray C. Kemp. Why rapid growth is associated with stagnant total productivity? (brief note 15). Article 15. Total factor productivity and the catching-up process, jointly with Yeun Yeun Lim / Human Capital, Trade and Public Policy in Rapidly Growing Economies: From Theory to Empirics.