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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820387203321

Autore

Chan Steve

Titolo

Flexibility, foresight, and fortuna in Taiwan's development : navigating between Scylla and Charybdis / / Steve Chan, Cal Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 1992

ISBN

1-134-90325-1

1-280-33127-5

0-203-31082-9

0-203-03511-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ClarkCal <1945->

Disciplina

338.95124/9

Soggetti

Taiwan History 1945-

Taiwan Economic policy 1945-

Taiwan Economic conditions 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Flexibility, Foresight, and Fortuna in Taiwan's Development: Navigating between Scylla and Charybdis; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of tables in the Appendix; About the authors; Preface; Chapter 1: The Problematique; Chapter 2: Theoretical Conundra; Chapter 3: From Rags to Riches; Chapter 4: Comparative Performances; Chapter 5: The (Other) Long March; Chapter 6: The Taiwan Puzzle; Chapter 7: Competing Models and Partial Results; Chapter 8: Eclecticism Beyond Orthodoxies; Appendix; Bibliography; Subject Index; Author Index

Sommario/riassunto

Using the developmental history of Taiwan as a starting point, Flexibility, Foresight and Fortuna critically examines several prevalent formulations of domestic development and international economy.The authors examine Taiwan's policy performance from, in turn, the developmental, the dependency, the statist, and the trade-off perspectives on political economy. They reject these approaches in favour of the key ideas of flexibility, foresight and fortuna as an explanation of Taiwan's relatively unusual success in achieving domestic development and upward mobility in the internationa