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Developmental state, n.: the government, motivated by desire for economic advancement, intervenes in industrial affairs. The notion of the developmental state has come under attack in recent years. Critics charge that Japan's success in putting this notion into practice has not been replicated elsewhere, that the concept threatens the purity of freemarket economics, and that its shortcomings have led to financial turmoil in Asia. In this...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0801485665
ISBN13:9780801485664
Release Date:June 1999
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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Excellent collection of developmental litarature
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Grand theory tends to be disorderly. This book has re-examined the concept of the developmental state that has been rather messy, and successfully shown the dangers and usefulness of the concept in analysing/explaining the relationship between economic growth and political institution. One of the successes of this collection would be the application of the developmental state model to a Western Democracy, France (A Chapter by M. Loriaux). The comparison between Northeast Asia and Franch is stimulating, and poses many questions to the technocratic mode of policy-making in globalising economies.
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