Varieties of capitalism in Asia : beyond the developmental state / David Hundt, Jitendra Uttam.
This book devises an innovative new way of explaining how socioeconomic orders shape capitalism in Asia. Hundt and Uttam go beyond both the 'varieties of capitalism' approach, which is mainly used to analyse Western capitalism, and the 'developmental state' thesis, which is the p...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Varieties of Capitalism in Asia; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Asia Amid the Varieties of Capitalism Debate; 1.1 Capitalism in Asia After WWII; 1.2 A New Approach to Analysing Asian Capitalism; 1.3 Understanding Embeddedness; 1.4 Structure of the Book; Notes; 2 State and Society in Asian Capitalism; 2.1 The Developmental State in Retrospect; 2.2 The Varieties of Capitalism and Asia; 2.3 The Social Origins of Asian Capitalism; 2.3.1 The Socioeconomic Base of Capitalism; 2.3.2 Capitalist Institutions and Social Embeddedness.
- 2.3.3 The Politics of Economic Regimes3 Japan's Collective Capitalism and the Origins of the Asian Model; 3.1 The Transformation of Capitalism in Japan; 3.1.1 The Notion of Collective Capitalism; 3.1.2 How Much Transformation?; 3.2 The Socioeconomic Base of Collective Capitalism; 3.2.1 The Rise of Mercantilism; 3.3 Capitalist Institutions in Japan; 3.3.1 The Significance of Land Reforms; 3.3.2 Big Business and the Financial Sector; 3.3.3 The Ruling Party and the Bureaucracy; 3.3.4 The Role of Labour; 3.3.5 The Embeddedness of Collective Capitalism; 3.4 Economic Policy and Strategy.
- 3.4.1 Opening Up?3.4.2 Industrial Policy; 3.4.3 Monetary and Fiscal Policy; 3.4.4 Financial-Sector Policy; 3.4.5 Science and Technology Policy; 3.4.6 Labour Market Policy; 3.5 Conclusion; Note; 4 Confucian Capitalism: 'Organised from the Top' in Korea and 'Reorganised from the Bottom' in Taiwan; 4.1 Shared Historical Context and the Development of Capitalism; 4.1.1 Impact of Chinese Cultural Flows; 4.1.2 Colonialism, Land Reform, and the Cold War; 4.2 The Making of Confucian Capitalism; 4.3 Structural-Institutional Dynamics; 4.3.1 Societal Institutions; 4.3.2 State Institutions.
- 4.3.3 Bureaucratic-Technocratic Institutions4.3.4 Financial Institutions; 4.3.5 Labour Institutions; 4.4 Economic Policy and Strategy in Korea; 4.4.1 Exchange Rate and Trade Policies; 4.4.2 Financial Repression and Deregulation; 4.4.3 Science and Technology Policy; 4.5 Taiwan's Economic Policy and Strategy; 4.5.1 Exchange Rate and Trade Policies; 4.5.2 Savings, Financial Repression, and FDI; 4.5.3 Science and Technology Policy; 4.6 Conclusion; Notes; 5 Entrepôt Capitalism in Hong Kong and Singapore; 5.1 The Development of Entrepôt Capitalism; 5.1.1 Quality of Governance.
- 5.1.2 Coexistence of State and Market5.2 The Socioeconomic Base of Entrepôt Capitalism; 5.2.1 Embedding Entrepôt Capitalism in Society; 5.2.2 A Conservative Style of Embedded Capitalism; 5.3 Two Variants of Entrepôt Capitalism; 5.3.1 State Capitalism in Singapore; 5.3.2 Hong Kong's Liberal Capitalism; 5.3.3 Social Responses to Entrepôt Capitalism; 5.4 Economic Policy and Strategy in Singapore and Hong Kong; 5.4.1 Industrial Policy; 5.4.2 Science and Technology Policy; 5.4.3 Free Trade Agreements and Increasing Interdependence; 5.5 Conclusion.