Robert C. Feenstra

Emergent Economies, Divergent Paths (eBook, PDF)

Economic Organization and International Trade in South Korea and Taiwan

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Produktbeschreibung

The economies of South Korea and Taiwan in the second half of the twentieth century are to scholars of economic development what the economy of Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteeth centuries is to economic historians. This book, first published in 2006, is a collaboration between a leading trade economist and a leading economic sociologist specializing in East Asia, and offers an explanation of the development paths of post-World War II Korea and Taiwan. The ambitions of the authors go beyond this, however. They use these cases to reshape the way economists, sociologists, and political scientists will think about economic organization in the future. They offer nothing less than a theory of, and extended evidence for, how capitalist economies become organized. One of the principal empirical findings is that a primary cause for the industrialization of East Asia is the retail revolution in the United States and the demand-responsiveness of Asian manufacturers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511166389
• Artikelnr.: 38205012

Autorenporträt

Robert C. Feenstra is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Davis. He also directs the International Trade and Investment program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the former editor of the Journal of International Economics and an Associate Editor of the American Economic Review. Feenstra has published over 70 articles in international trade and edited 8 books.
Gary G. Hamilton is a Professor of Sociology at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He has published numerous books and articles, including most recently Cosmopolitan Capitalists: Hong Kong and the Chinese Diaspora at the end of the 20th Century, editor and contributor (University of Washington Press, 1999), The Economic Organization of East Asian Capitalism, with Marco Orrù and Nicole Biggart (Sage 1997) and Asian Business Networks, editor (de Gruyter, 1996).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Business Groups and Economic Organization: 1. The problem of economic organization
2. Interpreting business groups in South Korea and Taiwan
3. A model of business groups: the interaction of authority and market power in the context of competitive economic activity
4. Economic organization in South Korea and Taiwan: a first test of the model
Part II. Emergence and Divergence of the Economies: 5. The origins of capitalist economic organization
6. The rise of intermediary demand: a reassessment of the 'Asian miracle'
7. Global matching, demand responsiveness, and the emergence of divergent economies
8. Trade performance of South Korea and Taiwan: a second test of the model
Conclusions
Appendix A. Mathematical model of business groups
Appendix B. Examples of differential pricing practices of Korean groups
Appendix C. Hypothesis tests of the model
Appendix D. The role of debt in the Korean financial crisis, 1997
References
Index.