| Title | : | The East Asian Development Experience: The Miracle, the Crisis and the Future |
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| ISBN | : | 1842771418 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781842771419 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 310 |
| Publication | : | First published September 19, 2006 |
Today East Asia is the richest part of the world outside the old industrial centres of Western Europe and North America. Despite political authoritarianism, human rights violations, corruption, repression of labour unions, gender discrimination and mistreatment of ethnic minorities, the citizens of the East Asian economies have experienced improvements in income and general well-being unparalleled in human history.
In this book, Ha-Joon Chang provides a fresh analysis of this spectacular growth. He considers East Asian economies’ unorthodox methods, and their rejection of ‘best practice’ and so-called Washington Consensus policies. East Asia, he claims, can teach us much about the whole process of economic development. Full of new facts and policy suggestions, this is a lively and unconventional introduction to a global phenomenon.
In this book, Ha-Joon Chang provides a fresh analysis of this spectacular growth. He considers East Asian economies’ unorthodox methods, and their rejection of ‘best practice’ and so-called Washington Consensus policies. East Asia, he claims, can teach us much about the whole process of economic development. Full of new facts and policy suggestions, this is a lively and unconventional introduction to a global phenomenon.
The East Asian Development Experience: The Miracle, the Crisis and the Future Reviews
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Not really about "East Asian Development" in general but mostly just Korean development experience. Nevertheless, it is a clear, brief, easy-to-read account. I could not say I completely agree with everything, but overall it has some strong arguments. Moreover, this book is not a thoroughly and comprehensively investigation. It is in fact a re-cap. Economics students interested in the validity of the argument would have to look somewhere else, more specialized journal articles. But keep in mind that this is unorthodox economics.
