Development Success in Asia Pacific: An Exercise in Normative-Pragmatic Balance - Rilegato

Somjee, A. H.; Somjee, Geeta

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0333626966 ISBN 13: 9780333626962

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 1995

Riassunto

Many new social and economic organizations are emerging in different parts of Asia Pacific which have skillfully adapted western capitalism to suit their own specific requirements. They have also put to effective use their own social and cultural values to get the best economic results. Japan used its heritage of associated living to overcome adversarial labour and management relations; Singapore made use of Confucial emphasis on social discipline and respect for merit to build a meritocratic society; Indonesia used its genius for eclecticism to build its own brand of social pragmatism, and then used it for economic growth; Thailand used the concept of merit in Theravada Buddhism to accelerate economic growth; and Malaysia used its own growing pragmatism to balance conflicting ethnic demands. The book examines the variety of address their respective core development issues and simultaneously register an explosive economic growth.

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L'autore

A.H. SOMJEE
GEETA SOMJEE

Contenuti

Preface - Introduction - PART 1: SINGAPORE: A SUPER PRAGMATIC SOCIETY - Social Organization - Dynamic Political Economy - The Vision of the Founding Fathers and Political Institutions - Normative-Pragmatic Balance in a Meritocratic Society - Some General Observations - PART 2: MALAYSIA: ETHNIC DISPARITIES AND SEARCH FOR A NORMATIVE-PRAGMATIC BALANCE - Background and Legacies - The Ethnic Mosaic and the Matrix of Development Process - The Tangled Incorporation Process - Economic and Political Disparities - A Troubled Political Society - PART 3: INDONESIA: CULTURAL ECLECTICISM AND PRAGMATIC APPLICATIONS - Historical Background - The Nature of Social Organization - Political Process - Changing Attitudes - Indigenous Perceptions - PART 4: THAILAND: NORMATIVE HERITAGE AND PRAGMATIC ADJUSTMENTS - Historical and Social Background - Social Organization - Some Public Policies - Political Process - Some General Observations - PART 5: THE PHILIPPINES: UNCRYSTALLIZED NORMATIVE BASE: UNHINGED POLITICAL CYNICISM - Background Factors - Social Organization and Implications for Political Effectiveness - Public Policy - Political Process - PART 6: BRUNEI: AFFLUENT WELFARE STATE, TRADITIONAL NORMS, UNDEVELOPED POLITICAL PROCESS - Historical Legacies - Social Organization - Political Economy - Undeveloped Political Process - Notes and References - Index

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0333626966
• ISBN 13: 9780333626962
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 221
• Contatto del produttore: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italia