Politics and markets in the wake of the Asian crisis
By: edited by Richard Robison ... [et al.].
Contributors: Robison, Richard, 1943-; Asia Research Centre.; Yŏnse Taehakkyo.
Series: Asian capitalisms
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: Financial crises -- East Asia; Capitalism -- East Asia; East Asia -- Economic conditions
Description: The contributors to this text argue that globalization processes are driven by political forces and it is not enough to look at economic factors in isolation. Chapters focus on the political and market institutions forged in the wake of the Asian crisis.
Notes: This volume is an outcome of the proceedings of an international conference in August 1998, organized by the Asia Research Centre, and Yongsei University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: interpreting the crisis / Mark Beeson and Richard Robison; title: Comment: crisis and the developmental state in East Asia / K.S. Jomo; title: The financial crisis in Southeast Asia / Jeffrey A. Winters; title: State power and economic strength revisited: what's so special about the Asian crisis? / Linda Weiss and John M. Hobson; title: The state, structural rigidity, and the end of Asian capitalism: a comparative study of Japan and South Korea / Chung In Moon and Sang-Young Rhyu; title: Fragility or continuity? economic governance of East Asian capitalism / Hyuk-Rae Kim; title: The dilemma of market liberalization: the financial crisis and the transformation of capitalism / Yeon-Ho Lee and Hyuk-Rae Kim; title: A meltdown with 'Chinese characteristics'? / Lance L.P. Gore; title: The Asian crisis and the perils of enterprise association: explaining the different outcomes in Singapore, Taiwan and Korea / James Cotton; title: Surviving the meltdown: liberal reform and political oligarchy in Indonesia / Richard Robison and Andrew Rosser; title: Thailand's capitalism before and after the economic crisis / Kevin Hewison; title: Economic nationalism and its discontents: Malaysian political economy after July 1997 / Khoo Boo Teik; title: The Philippines: the making of a neo-classical tragedy / Walden Bello; title: The international relations of the Asian economic crisis: a study in the politics of resentment / Richard Higgott; title: Moral (and other) hazards: the IMF and the systemic Asian crisis / Richard Leaver; title: Australia in the shadow of the Asian crisis / Mark Beeson and Stephen Bell; title: Authoritarian liberalism, governance and the emergence of the regulatory state in post-crisis East Asia / Kanishka Jayasuriya.