num_pages: 430
description: Few observers of Mexico and Brazil in the 1930s or South Korea and Taiwan in the mid-1950s would have predicted that these nations would become economic miracles several decades later. These newly industrializing countries (NICs) challenge much of our conventional wisdom about economic development and raise important questions about international competitiveness and export success in manufacturing industries. In this volume economists sociologists and political scientists seek to explain the growth of the NICs in Latin America and East Asia and to reformulate contemporary development theory through an in-depth analysis of these two dynamic regions. Gary Gereffi and Colin I. Bradford Jr. provide an overview of national development trajectories in Latin America and East Asia while Barbara Stallings Gereffi Robert R. Kaufman Tun-jen Cheng and Frederic C. Deyo discuss the role of foreign capital governments and domestic coalitions in shaping development outcomes. Gustav Ranis Robert Wade Chi Schive and Ren Villarreal look at the impact of economic policies on industrial performance and Fernando Fajnzylber Ronald Dore and Christopher Ellison with Gereffi examine new agendas for comparative development research.
language: English
title: Manufacturing Miracles. Paths of Industrialization in Latin America and East Asia.
publisher: Princeton University Press