A Region of Regimes: Prosperity and Plunder in the Asia-Pacific
T. J. Pempel, "A Region of Regimes: Prosperity and Plunder in the Asia-Pacific "
English | ISBN: 1501758799 | 2021 | 252 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1501758799 | 2021 | 252 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A Region of Regimes traces the relationship between politics and economics―power and prosperity―in the Asia-Pacific in the decades since the Second World War. This book complicates familiar and incomplete narratives of the "Asian economic miracle" to show radically different paths leading to high growth for many but abject failure for some. T. J. Pempel analyzes policies and data from ten East Asian countries, categorizing them into three distinct regime types, each historically contingent and the product of specific configurations of domestic institutions, socio-economic resources, and external support.
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