Emergent Economies, Divergent Paths: Economic Organization and International Trade in South Korea and Taiwan: 29 (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, Series Number 29) - Hardcover

Feenstra, Robert C.; Hamilton, Gary G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521622093 ISBN 13: 9780521622097

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

The economies of South Korea and Taiwan in the second half of the twentieth century are to scholars of economic development what the economy of Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteeth centuries is to economic historians. This book, first published in 2006, is a collaboration between a leading trade economist and a leading economic sociologist specializing in East Asia, and offers an explanation of the development paths of post-World War II Korea and Taiwan. The ambitions of the authors go beyond this, however. They use these cases to reshape the way economists, sociologists, and political scientists will think about economic organization in the future. They offer nothing less than a theory of, and extended evidence for, how capitalist economies become organized. One of the principal empirical findings is that a primary cause for the industrialization of East Asia is the retail revolution in the United States and the demand-responsiveness of Asian manufacturers.

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'Emergent Economies, Divergent Paths is an inspiring book containing grand theory as well as in-depth empirical details on the history, economy, politics and society of the two countries ' Journal of International Management

Book Description:

The economies of South Korea and Taiwan in the second half of the twentieth century are to scholars of economic development what the economy of Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is to economic historians. This book, first published in 2006, offers an explanation of the development paths of these two countries after the Second World War.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521622093
• ISBN 13: 9780521622097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 476