HARNESSING GLOBALIZATION
A Review of East Asian Case Histories
by Henry Y Wan (Cornell University, USA)
Table of Contents (85k)
Preface (39k)
A Note on Knowledge Capital and the Needham Paradox (805k)
About the AuthorHenry Y Wan, Jr is a Professor of Economics at Cornell University; a Correspondence Researcher at the Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taiwan; and a foreign member of the Center of International Joint Research of Economic Analysis and Policy, Kobe University, Japan. He was the President of the Chinese Economists Association in North America, 1993; the first holder of the Goh Keng Swee Professorship at the National University of Singapore in 1999; and co-recipient of the Levy Gold Medal of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, USA. He has given lecture series at Kobe University in 2004 and Peking University in 2005.
At a time of robust worldwide debates on globalization, this compact volume shows
• how successful each of the East Asian economies have been in harnessing globalization by appropriate and alternative means to catch up with the advanced economies and
• what implications can be drawn to assess Chinese economic growth in context.
The essays in this book include supporting notes to review effectively the highlights of the development of East Asia, over the six decades after World War II:
• why the region has performed so well economically relative to the rest of the developing world;
• which are the most challenging limitations to be addressed; and
• several sensational controversies in the development economics literature to be sensibly resolved.
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