Capitalist restructuring and the Pacific Rim


Ravi Arvind Palat.
Bok Engelsk 2004 Ravi Arvind. Palat,· Electronic books.
Utgitt
London ; New York : : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2004.
Omfang
1 online resource (292 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Dragons, tigers, and other myths of our time; Geopolitical ecology of US hegemony; Strong states, weak societies: State and class in the Asian rimlands; The making of industrial behemoths: Patterns of state intervention and industrial organization; Crisis of US hegemony and the growth of regional economic integration in Pacific-Asia; Debts and delusions: Crumbling of a regional economy; A bonfire of illusions; Epilogue: A future imperfect: Remaking a regional economy; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - This book situates the evolution of capitalist economies along Asia's Pacific Rim after the Second World War within broader global, political and economic changes. Specifically, it charts their growth at the interface of periodic crises and successive waves of restructuring, and links changes in the world economy to shifts in regional dynamics in east and southeast Asia. It suggests that while the expansion of Japanese corporate networks was crucial to the emergence of the region as a low-cost exporter to the world, the reintegration of China into the world market will free the region from its
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