The Rise and Fall of the East Asian Growth System, 1951-2000: Institutional Competitiveness and Rapid Economic Growth (Routledgecurzon Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia)

huang Examines A Recurring Pattern Of Rapid Economic Growth In East Asia From 1951 To The Present And Explores How Far A Single East Asian Growth Model Can Be Said To Exist. Assessing The Various Theories Put Forward To Explain The Phenomenon And Supported By The Most Comprehensive Data, The Book Finds That Methods Of Institutional Enhancement Were At The Core Of The Growth. This Institutional Enhancement Affected State Structure And Functions, Economic Policy, Corporate Arrangements, Social Structure And Relations, Individual Behaviour, And Domestic And International Interaction. Each Of These Elements Was A Critical Aspect Of The Growth System That Defined And Propelled The Rapid Growth. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 List of figures......Page 12 List of tables......Page 14 List of abbreviations......Page 15 Preface......Page 20 Introduction......Page 22 Making sense of the 50-year growth: theories and evidence......Page 27 Initial conditions: growth imperatives and alternative scenarios......Page 69 Striving for sustainable international competitiveness......Page 101 Cultural and social setting......Page 117 Crafting the national growth system......Page 133 The dynamism and consequences of East Asian Growth......Page 183 Conclusion: institutional competitiveness and East Asian Growth......Page 227 Notes on data and appendixes......Page 245 Appendix A: individual EAE datasets......Page 248 Appendix B: EAE and OECDE comparative data......Page 259 Appendix C: East Asian Growth timelines (1951-2000)......Page 262 Notes......Page 269 Bibliography......Page 273 Index......Page 287 "This book examines a recurring pattern of rapid economic growth in East Asia from 1951 to the present and explores how far a single East Asian Growth model can be said to exist. Assessing the various theories put forward to explain the phenomenon and supported by the most comprehensive data, the book finds that methods of institutional enhancement were at the core of the growth. This institutional enhancement affected state structure and functions, economic policy, corporate arrangements, social structure and relations, individual behavior, and domestic and international interaction. Each of these elements was a critical aspect of the growth system that defined and propelled the rapid growth."--BOOK JACKET 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. This book examines the long run of 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