"Mo and Weingast study three critical turning points in South Korea's remarkable transformation and offer a new view of how Korea was able to maintain pro-development policies with sustained growth by resolving repeated crises in favor of rebalancing and greater political and economic...

Empowering the coastal provinces, 1978-80 -- Initiating the special economic zones, 1980-81 -- Review and adjustment of the experiment, 1981-83 -- Coastal expansion, 1983-88 -- Initiating China's third way.

"This joint undertaking by scholars from Vietnam, North America, and Europe focuses on how Vietnam's governance shapes the country's politics, economy, social development, its relations with the outside world, and on the reforms required if Vietnam is to become a sustainable modern high-income...