The East Asian Economic Miracle
03 Oct 1994 12:00That is, the growth of East Asian market economies since, say, the Second World War.
East Asian views of what happened and why. Western views; compared with views of Prussia/Germany in the late 19th century and and early 20th; with views of Soviet Union in the early years. Third-world views. Significance, as sources of export earnings, of drugs, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, sex tourism. Connections to political repression, democracy, learning and the arts. Comparison to earlier industrialization of Japan --- connections to that?
- To read:
- Alice H. Amsden, The Rise of "the Rest": Challenges to the West from Late-Industrialization Economies
- Stephen G. Bunker and Paul S. Ciccantell, East Asia and the Global Economy: Japan's Ascent, with Implications for China's Future [Blurb]
- Chan, East Asian Dynamism
- Cotterell, East Asia
- W. G. Huff, The Economic Growth of Singapore : Trade and Development in the Twentieth Century
- Barry Naughton, The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth [Blurb]
- Stiglitz (ed.), Rethinking the East Asian Miracle
- World Bank, East Asian Miracle
- Woronoff, Asia's "Miracle" Economies
