Local Cultures and the New Asia : The State, Culture, and Capitalism in Southeast Asia /

Southeast Asia, until the Asian economic crisis of 1997-2000, was a high economic growth area. However, despite the neo-liberal and globalizing logic of capitalism, local conditions and cultures determine that capitalism will spread in ways not entirely consonant with its Western origins. Capitalism...

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Autres auteurs: Wee, C.J.W.-L (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Singapore : ISEAS Publishing, [2002]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Social values.
Economic development > Social aspects.
Capitalism > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Valeurs sociales > Asie du Sud-Est.
Social values > Southeast Asia.
Economic development > Social aspects > Southeast Asia.
Capitalism > Social aspects > Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asia.
Electronic books.
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Résumé:Southeast Asia, until the Asian economic crisis of 1997-2000, was a high economic growth area. However, despite the neo-liberal and globalizing logic of capitalism, local conditions and cultures determine that capitalism will spread in ways not entirely consonant with its Western origins. Capitalism is not a free-floating entity -- it is a socially embodied phenomenon that needs to function in various cultural contexts. Consequently, the tension between the universal status that some claim capitalism now occupies in the post-Cold War world and the particularities of the local cultures it enters should be of great concern.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (245 pages).
ISBN:9789812307149

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