Economic history of Taiwan: a survey

This article surveys research on Taiwan's economic history for the past fifteen years, covering a period from approximately the eighteenth to early twentieth century. It discusses the works of economists as well as studies by researchers in history and other fields. The topics selected for the survey are: change of Taiwan's per capita GDP in the long-term; trade and development; aborigine property rights; and institutional change in the early Japanese colonial period. Copyright Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd and the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand 2004.