How Asia Works
Subtitle: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Jun 25, 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780802119599
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Author's Note
pagenum: xi; title: Introduction
pagenum: xiii; label: Part 1
title: Land: The Triumph of Gardening
pagenum: 1; label: Journey 1
title: Tokyo to Niigata
pagenum: 14; label: Journey 2
title: Negros Occidental
pagenum: 34; label: Part 2
title: Manufacturing: The Victory of the Historians
pagenum: 71; label: Journey 3
title: Seoul to Pohang and Ulsan
pagenum: 108; label: Journey 4
title: Across Malaysia
pagenum: 134; label: Part 3
title: Finance: The Merits of a Short Leash
pagenum: 167; label: Journey 5
title: Jakarta
pagenum: 203; label: Part 4
title: Where China Fits In
pagenum: 221; title: Epilogue: Learning to Lie
pagenum: 267; title: Notes
pagenum: 273; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 339; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 351; title: Index
pagenum: 353