PART I Financial system and financial crisis; 1. The global financial crisis: lessons for Taiwan; 2. A perspective on the US dollar after the current financial crisis: lessons from the fall of the pound sterling and the gold standard after World War I; 3. De-privatization? Case studies of...

"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...