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 Taiwan...

United States policy toward the Republic of China (ROC), after its founding in 1912, has been handled as a matter of foreign affairs, under the authority of the President and the Executive Branch. Unfortunately, there was no thorough review of the appropriateness of this policy in the in the...

This chapter summarizes the latest (post-2012) eminent domain law in Taiwan. It focuses on the six pillars of takings law, namely public interest criteria, subjects of the eminent domain power, just compensation, due process, distribution of development surpluses, and the dispute resolution...

In der Studie wird zunächst das Verhältnis von Ordnung und Moral einerseits und wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung andererseits auf einer allgemeinen Ebene diskutiert. Mit den dabei gewonnenen Erkenntnissen wird dann die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung Taiwans interpretiert. Für Taiwan bestanden in...

1. Posing the problem -- 2. Taiwan's political economies in historical perspective, 1683-1945 -- 2. Taiwan's new command economy and the tipping point, 1945-52 -- 4. The first debate, 1952-54 : command economy or market economy? -- 5. The second debate, 1954-58 : how to restructure the trade...