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Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization
Robert Wade
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Description for Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization
Paperback. Reviews the debate about industrial policy in East and Southeast Asia and chronicles the changing fortunes of these economies over the 1990s. This title extends the argument to explain the boom of the first half of the decade and the crash of the second, stressing the links between corporations, banks, governments, and others. Num Pages: 496 pages, 28 tables. 4 line illus. BIC Classification: 1FP; JPA; KCA; KCP; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 34. Weight in Grams: 770.
Published originally in 1990 to critical acclaim, Robert Wade's Governing the Market quickly established itself as a standard in contemporary political economy. In it, Wade challenged claims both of those who saw the East Asian story as a vindication of free market principles and of those who attributed the success of Taiwan and other countries to government intervention. Instead, Wade turned attention to the way allocation decisions were divided between markets and public administration and the synergy between them. Now, in a new introduction to this paperback edition, Wade reviews the debate about industrial policy in East and Southeast Asia ... Read more
Published originally in 1990 to critical acclaim, Robert Wade's Governing the Market quickly established itself as a standard in contemporary political economy. In it, Wade challenged claims both of those who saw the East Asian story as a vindication of free market principles and of those who attributed the success of Taiwan and other countries to government intervention. Instead, Wade turned attention to the way allocation decisions were divided between markets and public administration and the synergy between them. Now, in a new introduction to this paperback edition, Wade reviews the debate about industrial policy in East and Southeast Asia ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
764g
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691117294
SKU
V9780691117294
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About Robert Wade
Robert Wade is Professor of Political Economy at the London School of Economics. He has a long-standing interest in the causes of economic growth and economic inequality on a world scale and has conducted field research in Pitcairn Island, Italy, India, South Korea, Taiwan, and the World Bank. He worked earlier as an economist in the World Bank and in ... Read more
Reviews for Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization
Winner of the 1992 Best Book Award of the Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association "[This] study by Robert Wade is one of only a handful that describes how economic policy in East Asia has actually worked... A superb book... Governing the Market demystifies East Asia's miracle without making it seem any less remarkable. It assaults idle ... Read more