Asian Economic Systems provides readers with a crisp analytic framework, concepts and narrative highlighting contemporary Asia's systemic diversity. The framework facilitates insightful comparison with the western neoclassical ideal. This method allows students to easily appreciate the special...

"Decades of rapid economic growth in East Asia mask diverse national paths. Analyzing ten countries over forty years, the book identifies three major regime types and their discrete economic paradigms, some vastly successful, others mired in failure. In closing, the book shows how shifting...