The economic rise of Asia: Japan, Indonesia and South Korea [Lingua inglese] - Brossura

Valli, Vittorio

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ISBN 10: 8899982104 ISBN 13: 9788899982102

Casa editrice: Accademia University Press, 2020

Riassunto

How has been possible for Japan to become the fourth economic power in the world, for Indonesia to reach the eighth world position and for South Korea, a relatively small country by territory and population, to become an important technological power and a great net exporter of PCs, chips, mobile phones, ships and automobiles? This book tries to explain the different development paths of the three great Asian economies and to explore the principal causes of their periods of brilliant economic success and of crisis. The extraordinary growth of physical capital and of knowledge and the role of the State are essential to explain the phases of industrialization and of exceptionally rapid economic growth in Japan and South Korea. Two additional analytical tools are used: the concepts of the fordist-toyotist model of growth and of stockflows relations. The second concept is particularly important in order to jointly explain the phase of very rapid growth of the Japanese economy up to the end of the 1980s and the following deep structural crisis. On the other hand, the towering importance given to education and R.&D is one of the keys for the continuation of the success of the Korean economy. Indonesia has reached a period of rapid economic growth much later than Japan and South Korea, but in the 2000s it it is rapidly catching up. However, Indonesia has devoted too limited resources to the expansion of knowledge and health conditions and to the conservation of the environment, so that its model of growth, which remains heavily dependent on the exploitation of natural resources and on the activity of foreign multinationals, must be substantially revised.

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Vittorio Valli iis emeritus professor of Economic Policy at Turin University. He taught at Bocconi University and at the Universities of Padua and Turin. He was visiting professor at the Universities of Kyoto, Roskilde, Nice and at Seoul National University and visiting scholar at Berkeley and Brown. He teaches “Comparative economic development” at Turin University. He was the first president of AISSEC (the Italian Association for Comparative Economic Systems) and EACES (European Association for Comparative Economic Studies). He is co-director of OOET (the Turin Center on Emerging Economies). In 2015 he has published with Accademia University Press The Economic Rise of China and India.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Accademia University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 8899982104
• ISBN 13: 9788899982102
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 176
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile