How Asia works : success and failure in the world's most dynamic region / Joe Studwell.

By:

Studwell, Joe

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Grove Press, c2013.Description: xxviii, 366 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780802119599
080211959X

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DDC classification:

338.95

LOC classification:

HC 460.5 S933h 2013

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Contents:

Pt. 1. Land : the triumph of gardening. Journey 1: Tokyo to Niigata ; Journey 2: Negros occidental -- pt. 2. Manufacturing : the victory of the historians. Journey 3: Seoul to Pohang and Ulsan ; Journey 4: Across Malaysia -- pt. 3. Finance : the merits of a short leash. Journey 5: Jakarta -- pt. 4. Where China fits in -- Epilogue: Learning to lie.

Summary: A provocative look at what has worked--and what hasn't--in East Asian economics. It explores how policies ridiculed by economists created titans in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, and are now behind the rise of China, while the best advice the West could offer sold its allies in south-east Asia down the economic river.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Vol info	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Ciencias Sociales	Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso)	HC 460.5 S933h 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	1	Available		00000110238

Originally published: London : Profile, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-350) and index.

A provocative look at what has worked--and what hasn't--in East Asian economics. It explores how policies ridiculed by economists created titans in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, and are now behind the rise of China, while the best advice the West could offer sold its allies in south-east Asia down the economic river.

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