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Zusatztext 'Provocative and stimulating.' - Cambridge Journals'This book forwards the hypothesis that similar political and economic intituations created economic growth across East Asia. For the author! the parallels are so strong and different from practices elsewhere that hecan speak of an 'East Asian growth system.' - R. Bin Wong! UCLA Asia Institute Informationen zum Autor Xiaoming Huang is a senior lecturer in East Asian politics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His research interests focus on the patterns of political and social change in different institutional settings, and frameworks for their meaningful description and explanation to people across critical boundaries, national, cultural or otherwise. Zusammenfassung Huang gives important and high-quality research on the economic growth in East Asia from 1945 to the present, assessing the various theories put forward to explain the phenomenon, and appraising the various factors which have contributed to economic growth in East Asia. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Making Sense of the 50-Year Growth: Theories and Evidence Part 2: Initial Conditions: Growth Imperatives and Alternative Scenarios Part 3: Striving for Sustainable International Competitiveness Part 4: Cultural and Social Setting Part 5: Crafting The National Growth System Part 6: The Dynamism and Consequences of East Asian Growth Part 7: Conclusion: Institutional Competitiveness and East Asian Growth
