The Rise of Asia or Transition and Economics

The Rise of Asia: Economics, Society, and Politics in Contemporary Asia

Author: Frank B Tipton

For many years, Japan was seen as the peculiar exception in Asia: a highly dynamic economy isolated in an otherwise moribund continent. With the rise of the Southeast Asian and Chinese economies, however, it has now become clear that Asia as a whole is experiencing an extraordinary revolution which will result, within a very few years, in living standards for some countries being on a par with those in the West. The results of this transformation can only be guessed at, but The Rise of Asia adds a far greater sophistication to our understanding of how this process came about, treating the key areas of Asian life (economics, society and politics) as an integrated whole and avoiding the trap of most commentators, who see the phenomenon as an exclusively postwar economic issue. Balancing the uniquely Asian aspects with global developmental factors, Dr. Tipton creates a convincing picture of how this amazing change has occurred.

Table of Contents:

	List of Tables
	Preface and Acknowledgements
1	Prologue: East and Southeast Asia and the Changing Balance of World Economic Forces
2	The Age of Colonialism and Imperialism: From an External to an Internal Dynamic
3	The Role of Markets: Peasant Families, Commercial Agriculture and Protoindustrialization
4	Asian Elites in the Economy and in Politics
5	The First Asian Tiger: The Transformation of Japan
6	Asian Economies, the International Economy and Development in the Interwar Era
7	Japanese Imperialism and the Pacific War
8	Asian Nationalism
9	Economics, Politics and Asian Development in the Postwar World
10	How Much Is There to Share? Population, Resources and Productivity
11	The Dark Side: Women in Asian Development
12	The Developmental State in Asia: Japan and the Four Tigers
13	New Tigers, New Dragons, New Giants? The State and Development in China and Southeast Asia
	Epilogue: Can Growth Continue?
	Bibliography
	Index

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Transition and Economics: Politics, Markets, and Firms

Author: Gerard Roland

The transition from socialism to capitalism in former socialist economies is one of the main economic events of the twentieth century. Not only does it affect the lives of approximately 1.65 billion people, but it is contributing to a shift in emphasis in economics from standard price and monetary theory to contracting and its institutional environment. Economic research in transition shows not only that institutions matter but also how their evolution toward higher efficiency depends on initial conditions and on sustained political support.

Unlike early policy literature on transition economics, which focused on the so-called Washington consensus, this book provides an overview of current research, analyzing issues raised by transition for which economic theorists and policy makers had no ready answers. It shows how research on transition contributes to our understanding of capitalism as an economic system and of the dynamics of large-scale institutional change.

The book is divided into three parts. The first part looks at how large-scale reforms are decided dynamically through the political process. The second part looks at the general equilibrium and macroeconomic effects of liberalization in economies without preexisting markets. The third part looks at the economic behavior of firms in the transition from state to private ownership and compares the effects of privatization, restructuring, and financial reform. Although focused on transition economics, the discussions are relevant to topics in political economics, development, public economics, corporate finance, and micro- and macroeconomics.