LEADER 04025oam 2200469 450 001 9910786970003321 005 20190911112728.0 010 $a981-4425-39-7 035 $a(OCoLC)843873057 035 $a(MiFhGG)GVRL8QYB 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000361833 100 $a20130927h20132013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAsian economic systems /$fSteven Rosefielde, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA 210 $aSingapore $cWorld Scientific$d2013 210 1$aNew Jersey :$cWorld Scientific,$d[2013] 210 4$d?2013 215 $a1 online resource (xviii, 276 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aGale eBooks 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a981-4425-38-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Contents; Instructional Guidance; Figures and Tables; Introduction; The Asian Moment; PART I: Universal Economy; Chapter 1: Economics and Economic Systems; Economic Behavior; Economic Systems; Modernization; Inclusive Systems; Democratic Competitive Ideal; Pareto Efficiency; Disequilibrium Adjustment Mechanism; Paternalist Sovereignty; Authoritarian Sovereignty; Cultural Sovereignty; Review; Questions; Appendix 1.1 Bergsonian Social Welfare Functions; PART II: Asian Economy; Chapter 2: Contemporary Asia; Yesterday's Asia; Today's Asia 327 $aTomorrow's AsiaReview; Chapter 3: Asian Economic Governance; Four Sovereigns; Asian Communism; Confucianism; Communalism; Buddhism; Review; Questions; Chapter 4: Asian Economic Performance 1500-2010; PART III: Core Asian Systems Communism; Chapter 5: North Korea; Communist Command Economy; Reform; Review; Questions; Exercises; Chapter 6: Market Communism: China and Southeast Asia; Chinese and Southeast Asian Command Communism 1950-1978; Market Communism: First Phase 1978-1989; Market Communist: Second Phase 1992-Present; Sources of Success; Market Communist: Third Phase? 327 $aSoutheast Asian Market CommunismVietnam; Laos and Cambodia; Review; Questions; Exercises; Confucianism; Chapter 7: Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea; Contemporary Confucian Economic Systems; Confucianism; Confucian Rejuvenation; Trajectory; Taiwan; South Korea; Singapore and Hong Kong; Future Shock; Review; Questions; Exercises; Communalism; Chapter 8: Japan; Japan's Communalist Economic System; Communalism; Shame and Guilt; Consensus Building; Pareto Inefficiency; Social Efficiency; Democracy; Epochs; Reform; Wellbeing, Fulfillment and Contentment; Review; Questions; Exercises 327 $aBuddhismChapter 9: Thailand; Thailand's Theravada Buddhist Economic System; Thai Economy; Theravada Buddhism; Buddhism and Wellbeing; Review; Questions; Exercises; PART IV: Pan-Asian Systems; Chapter 10: Asia's Futures; Diversity and Globalization; Coexistence; Whither China?; Pan-Asian Systems; Conclusion; Glossary; Sages and Rulers; Bibliography; Index 330 $aAsian Economic Systems provides readers with a crisp analytic framework, concepts and narrative highlighting contemporary Asia's systemic diversity. The framework facilitates insightful comparison with the western neoclassical ideal. This method allows students to easily appreciate the special virtues of various Asian economic systems, and compare them with those offered in the west. This objective is buttressed with background material on Asian economic history where appropriate, together with basic data on Asian and global economic performance to help students integrate concepts with experie 606 $aEconomics$zAsia 607 $aAsia$xEconomic conditions$y21st century 615 0$aEconomics 676 $a330.95 700 $aRosefielde$b Steven$0147100 801 0$bMiFhGG 801 1$bMiFhGG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786970003321 996 $aAsian economic systems$93815893 997 $aUNINA