Introduction and overview / Prema-chandra Athukorala -- Asian trade and investment : trends and patterns / Prema-chandra Athukorala and Hal Hill -- The spatial patterns of production and distribution networks in East Asia / Mitsuyo Ando and Fukunari Kimura -- Production fragmentation and...

The spectacular, sustained economic growth experienced in several East Asian countries leads to the question what Europe can learn from the East Asian economicmodel. Three advantages of the East Asian model stand out: small social transfers, low taxation and free labor markets. The superiority...

This chapter picks up the century-old communist idea that this system will one day evolve to dominate the capitalist system. Now that China is successfully catching up, it not only has gained considerable weight globally but it is also an emerging power in its own region of South East Asia....