Economic Liberalism And The Developmental State

Author : Bryan Cheang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031081002

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Economic Liberalism and the Developmental State by Bryan Cheang Pdf

This book provides a fresh perspective on the debate over the role of the state in East Asia’s development history. Comparing the post-war development policies of Singapore and Hong Kong, it argues that their strong economic performances preceded and persisted despite, not because of, developmental state policies. While both nations are not pure free markets, the Hong Kong economy comes closer to that ideal and exhibited clear advantages over state-driven Singapore, in terms of greater levels of indigenous entrepreneurship, productivity and innovation. The book highlights the complex ways in which states penetrate markets, which are often neglected in liberal accounts of Hong Kong and Singapore as ‘free-market success stories’. At the same time, it also stands as a cautionary tale on the use of non-comprehensive development planning in the twenty-first century, where an unprecedented degree of complexity complicates economic policy and industrial upgrading. The book renews the case for economic liberalism in development policy through a unique Asian cultural lens.

Author : Iain Pirie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134141579

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The Korean Developmental State by Iain Pirie Pdf

The Korean Developmental State is a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of processes of state and economic restructuring in South Korea since the 1997 crisis. The book distinguishes itself from previous studies by consistently arguing that structural changes in the global political economy have played a crucial role in reshaping the Korean state’s own economic project. More precisely, Iain Pirie seeks to demonstrate how the Korean state increasingly adopted neo-liberal policies from the 1980s onwards as a rational response to the evolution of global economic structures; an evolution which has been driven by the continuous attempts of major global firms and leading capitalist states to overcome the chronic profitability problems that have dogged the core capitalist area since the late 1960s. The radical restructuring programme the Korean state initiated after the 1997 crisis must be understood as a logical conclusion to these earlier, more incremental, processes of reform it initiated almost two decades earlier. This book seeks to establish the neo-liberal character of the Korean state through a close analysis of key institutional and policy reforms, and serious engagement with more theoretical debates concerning the nature of the neo-liberal state itself. The Korean Developmental State offers a new perspective on the economic experience of Korea as a development model, one that emphasizes global trends and contradictions for Korea’s economic crisis and resulting transformation, and as such will be of significant interest to scholars of Korean studies and the Asian economy.

Author : Institute of Development Studies (Brighton, England)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198288115

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States Or Markets? by Institute of Development Studies (Brighton, England) Pdf

This volume examines the usefulness of neo-liberal theory and its prescriptions for tackling problems in developing countries, ranging through agriculture, industry, education, and health. It considers the impact of neo-liberal theory on the poor and on women, and assesses the neo-liberalrecord on trade, and financial and structural adjustment problems.

Author : Richard Boyd,Tak-Wing Ngo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134281169

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Asian States by Richard Boyd,Tak-Wing Ngo Pdf

A team of international leading experts provide a much needed re-examination of the theoretical claims and the empirical foundation of developmental state theory. Asian States argues that regardless of the merits of the developmental state as an explanation of economic growth, it falls far short of being an adequate theory of the state in Asia. The contributors critically review claims about agency, state-society and state-market relations that shape developmental projects. It broadens the analysis of state involvement in developmental projects and considers the variety of political and social bases for state projects across East and Southeast Asia in a theoretically sensitive, thematic and empirically rich way.

Author : Chang Kyung-Sup
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030145767

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Developmental Liberalism in South Korea by Chang Kyung-Sup Pdf

This book characterizes South Korea’s pre-neoliberal regime of social governance as developmental liberalism and analyzes the turbulent processes and complex outcomes of its neoliberal degeneration since the mid-1990s. Instead of repeating the politically charged critical view on South Korea’s failure in socially inclusionary and sustainable development, the author closely examines the systemic interfaces of the economic, political, and social constituents of its developmental transformation. South Korea has turned and remained developmentally liberal, rather than liberally liberal (like the United States), in its economic and sociopolitical configuration of social security, labor protection, population, education, and so forth. Initially conceived in the late 1980s, ironically along its democratic restoration, and radically accelerated during the national financial crisis in the late 1990s, South Korea’s neoliberal transition has become incomparably volatile and destructive, due crucially to its various distortive effects on the country’s developmental liberal order.

Author : C. Kyung-Sup,B. Fine,L. Weiss
Publisher : Springer
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137028303

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Developmental Politics in Transition by C. Kyung-Sup,B. Fine,L. Weiss Pdf

Blending theory and case studies, this volume explores a vitally important and topical aspect of developmentalism, which remains a focal point for scholarly and policy debates around democracy and social development in the global political economy. Includes case studies from China, Vietnam, India, Brazil, Uganda, South Korea, Ireland, Australia.

Author : Meredith Woo-Cumings
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501720383

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The Developmental State by Meredith Woo-Cumings Pdf

Developmental state, n.: the government, motivated by desire for economic advancement, intervenes in industrial affairs. The notion of the developmental state has come under attack in recent years. Critics charge that Japan's success in putting this notion into practice has not been replicated elsewhere, that the concept threatens the purity of freemarket economics, and that its shortcomings have led to financial turmoil in Asia. In this informative and thought-provoking book, a team of distinguished scholars revisits this notion to assess its continuing utility and establish a common vocabulary for debates on these issues. Drawing on new political and economic theories and emphasizing recent events, the authors examine the East Asian experience to show how the developmental state involves a combination of political, bureaucratic, and moneyed influences that shape economic life in the region. Taking as its point of departure Chalmers Johnson's account of the Japanese developmental state, the book explores the interplay of forces that have determined the structure of opportunity in the region. The authors critically address the argument for centralized political involvement in industrial development (with a new contribution by Johnson), describe the historical impact of colonialism and the Cold War, consider new ideas in economics, and compare the experiences of East Asian countries with those of France, Brazil, Mexico, and India.

Author : Benjamin F. Bobo,Hermann Sintim-Aboagye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1592217893

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Neo-liberalism, Interventionism and the Developmental State by Benjamin F. Bobo,Hermann Sintim-Aboagye Pdf

Author : Charles K. Rowley
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015037480418

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The Political Economy of the Minimal State by Charles K. Rowley Pdf

Four essays reprinted from separate volumes in the Locke Institute's Shaftesbury Paper Series defend classical liberal philosophy and justify the minimal state. They are Anthony de Jasay's Before Resorting to Politics, Norman Barry's Classical Liberalism in the Age of Post-Communism, Edwin West's Adam Smith into the Twenty-First Century, and Richard E. Wagner's Economic Policy in a Liberal Democracy. Editor Rowley (economics, George Mason U.) ties them together in an introduction that explains why some notable scholars have abandoned classical liberalism. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Stephan Haggard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108605304

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Developmental States by Stephan Haggard Pdf

The concept of the developmental state emerged to explain the rapid growth of a number of countries in East Asia in the postwar period. Yet the developmental state literature also offered a theoretical approach to growth that was heterodox with respect to prevailing approaches in both economics and political science. Arguing for the distinctive features of developmental states, its proponents emphasized the role of government intervention and industrial policy as well as the significance of strong states and particular social coalitions. This literature blossomed into a wider approach, firmly planted in a much longer heterodox tradition, that explored comparisons with states that were decidedly not developmentalist, thus contributing to our historical understanding of long-run growth. This Element provides a critical but sympathetic overview of this literature and ends with its revival and a look forward at the possibility for developmentalist approaches, both in the advanced and developing world.

Author : Paul A. Haslam,Pablo Heidrich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317418900

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The Political Economy of Natural Resources and Development by Paul A. Haslam,Pablo Heidrich Pdf

The Political Economy of Resources and Development offers a unique and multidisciplinary perspective on how the commodity boom of the mid-2000s reshaped the model of development throughout Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. Governments increased taxes and royalties on the resource sector, the nationalization of foreign firms returned to the mainstream economic policy agenda, and public spending on social and developmental goals surged. These trends, often described as resource nationalism, have developed into a strategy for economic development, generated a re-imagining of the state and its institutional possibilities, and created a new but very significant political risk for extractive enterprises. However, these innovations, which constitute the most dramatic change in development policy in Latin America since the advent of neoliberalism, have so far received little attention from either academic or policy-oriented publications. This book explores the reasons behind these policies, and their effects on states, firms, and development trajectories. This text brings together renowned thematic experts to examine the political-economic causes of resource nationalism, as well as its manifestation in six Latin American countries. The causal variables considered by the contributors to this collection include a range of political-economic determinants of policy including commodity prices; the influence of ideology and national politics; ideas about industrial policy; relations between host governments and investors; and how countries respond to opportunities provided by regional initiatives and the new geography of the global economy. This volume is essential reading in development economics, political economy, and Latin American studies, as well as for those who want to understand what economic development means after neoliberalism.

Author : David Alan Craig,Doug Porter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134363759

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Development Beyond Neoliberalism? by David Alan Craig,Doug Porter Pdf

Development’s current focus – poverty reduction and good governance – signals a turn away from the older neoliberal preoccupation with structural adjustment, privatization and downsizing the state. For some, the new emphases on empowering and securing the poor through basic service delivery, local partnership, decentralization and institution building constitute a decisive break with the past and a whole set of new development possibilities beyond neoliberalism. Taking a wider historical perspective, this book charts the emergence of poverty reduction and governance at the centre of development. It shows that the Poverty Reduction paradigm does indeed mark a shift in the wider liberal project that has underpinned development: precisely what is new, and what this means for how the poor are governed, are described here in detail. This book provides a compelling history of development doctrine and practice, and in particular offers the first comprehensive account of the last twenty years, and development’s shift towards a new political economy of institution building, decentralized governance and local partnerships. The story is illustrated with extensive case studies from first hand experience in Vietnam, Uganda, Pakistan and New Zealand.

Author : Sylvia Chan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521004985

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Liberalism, Democracy and Development by Sylvia Chan Pdf

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Author : Yusuke Takagi,Veerayooth Kanchoochat,Tetsushi Sonobe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9811329036

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Developmental State Building by Yusuke Takagi,Veerayooth Kanchoochat,Tetsushi Sonobe Pdf

This open access book modifies and revitalizes the concept of the ‘developmental state’ to understand the politics of emerging economy through nuanced analysis on the roles of human agency in the context of structural transformation. In other words, there is a revived interest in the ‘developmental state’ concept. The nature of the ‘emerging state’ is characterized by its attitude toward economic development and industrialization. Emerging states have engaged in the promotion of agriculture, trade, and industry and played a transformative role to pursue a certain path of economic development. Their success has cast doubt about the principle of laissez faire among the people in the developing world. This doubt, together with the progress of democratization, has prompted policymakers to discover when and how economic policies should deviate from laissez faire, what prevents political leaders and state institutions from being captured by vested interests, and what induce them to drive economic development. This book offers both historical and contemporary case studies from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Rwanda. They illustrate how institutions are designed to be developmental, how political coalitions are formed to be growth-oriented, and how technocratic agencies are embedded in a network of business organizations as a part of their efforts for state building.

Author : Hyeong-ki Kwon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192635617

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Changes by Competition by Hyeong-ki Kwon Pdf

By tracing the evolution of South Korean state-led capitalism and comparing it with other economies, this book critiques prevalent theories including neoliberalism, the developmental state, and institutionalism, and proposes a theoretical alternative focusing on endogenous changes through elites' competition within and outside the state. Unlike the arguments of neoliberals, this volume asserts that the state can still play an active role in reconstituting the national economy through globalization. The Korean state successfully fosters economic growth by nurturing industrial commons through globalization, rather than by adopting a neoliberal free-market system. This volume exerts that the Korean economy has successfully grown over the past 50 years because it has moved toward a new version of state-led developmentalism. In order to better account for the evolution of state-led developmentalism, this book proposes changes by competition within, as well as outside, the state, in order to bring about changes in developmentalism and the ability to adjust to new contexts. Unlike prevalent accounts of developmental state theory, Changes by Competition argues that the state is neither unitary nor cohesive, but a locus of competition.