Europe and Asia followed very different paths to economic integration after 1945. By 2000, an economic union with free movement of goods and factors of production and a common currency linked much of Europe. Meanwhile, effective economic integration agreements were absent from Asia, although...

Introduction / Richard Pomfret -- Part I: Flying geese and NIEs -- A theory of unbalanced growth in the world economy / Kaname Akamatsu -- The "flying geese" model of Asian economic development : origin, theoretical extensions, and regional policy implications / Kiyoshi Kojima -- Economic...