How Asia Works, Joe Studwell
How Asia Works, Joe Studwell
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How Asia Works
Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region

Author: Joe Studwell

Narrator: Nigel Patterson

Unabridged: 11 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/15/2017


Synopsis

In the 1980s and 1990s many in the West came to believe in the myth of an East-Asian economic miracle, with countries seen as not just development prodigies but as a unified bloc, culturally and economically similar, and inexorably on the rise. In How Asia Works, Joe Studwell distills extensive research into the economics of nine countries—Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, and China—into an accessible narrative that debunks Western misconceptions, shows what really happened in Asia and why, and for once makes clear why some countries have boomed while others have languished.

Impressive in scope, How Asia Works is essential listening for anyone interested in a region that will shape the future of the world.

About Joe Studwell

Joe Studwell is the founding editor of the China Economic Quarterly. A freelance journalist in Asia for over twenty years, he has also written for the Economist Intelligence Unit, the Economist, the Financial Times, the Asian Wall Street Journal, and the Far Eastern Economic Review. He is the author of The China Dream and Asian Godfathers.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Matthew

This was excellent, very well organized and concisely argued. Basic point I think is that nations need to take control of their own economic and industrial narratives. The first part was eye opening for me, focusing on agricultural policy and land reform - effectively arguing that the first stage of......more

Goodreads review by Luciano

This book should be mandatory reading in any development economics program. It makes a compelling case for the "northeast Asian" economic development model, which may look simple as "one, two, three", as the author puts it, but VERY hard to achieve. Which democratic country could sustain many years......more