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The Political Economy of East Asian Development: Against the Orthodoxy
The Political Economy of East Asian Development Against the Orthodoxy Author:Jeffrey Henderson From the re-emergence of Japan as an industrial power in the 1950s through to the contemporary rise of China as a potential economic-political behemoth, the story of East Asian development has been central to any serious analysis of the dynamics and trajectory of the global political economy. This book examines the key political-economic issues ... more »of East Asian development: the relation between the state and markets; the changing nature of economic governance and its relation to inequality; and the rise of China and its international consequences. Very few books consider the international consequences of China?s rise nor the relationship with inequality. This book engages with relevant issues and debates, written by an acknowledged expert in the field in an open, non-technical language making it useful as an advanced textbook not only for East Asian studies, but more generally in international political economy and development studies.« less