"This book tells the story of Taiwan's economic revolution--how Taiwan transformed itself from a planned economy into a market economy between 1949 and 1965. The authors posit that it was the Kuomintang Government's endorsement of property rights reform and institutional change that enabled...

List of tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Economic structure, the international economy, and social-order development -- Data description, measurement, and case selection -- The international economy and political economy in the post-socialist region : an historical...