Providing an integrated analysis of the event and its consequences, the chapters in the book consider the causes of the crisis, the response of the US government and International Monetary Fund, adjustments in the Korean monetary and fiscal policies, and the success of financial and corporate...

Contrary to the widely-held view that the East Asian developmental state is neutral in terms of the relationship between capital and labour, this text argues that the developmental state exists to promote the interests of capital over labour

Volume 32 of REA continues the series' on-going presentation of new and highly engaging anthropological research. Chapters contained herein reflect the diverse range of broad based and localized topics economic anthropologists currently explore from various critical perspectives. Spanning deep...

Dietmar Rothermund beschreibt eindrucksvoll das riesige wirtschaftliche und politische Potential der aufstrebenden Weltmacht Indien. Traumhafte Wachstumsraten, eine hoch motivierte Mittelschicht und eine stabile Demokratie machen das übervölkerte Armenhaus von ehedem zum strahlenden Gewinner...

"Korea's twin transitions--agrarian to industrial and industrial to post-industrial--effectively transformed the country's political economy. Moving away from the traditional focus on aspects such as market, state and world systems, culture, and colonialism, the author argues that Korea's...