Traps embraced or escaped [[electronic resource] ] : elites in the economic development of modern Japan and China / / Carl Mosk
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| Autore: |
Mosk Carl
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| Titolo: |
Traps embraced or escaped [[electronic resource] ] : elites in the economic development of modern Japan and China / / Carl Mosk
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| Pubblicazione: | Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (277 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 327.51052 |
| 330.951 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Economic development - China |
| Economic development - Japan | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Asia Economic conditions |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-253) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Coping with the western challenge, 1840-1911 -- pt. 3. Traps, 1910-1955 -- pt. 4. Consequences, 1945-2005. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book explores economic development in East Asia between 1870 and 1953 in terms of escaping or succumbing to four interrelated traps: demographic; political; economic; and, cultural. Demographic traps include Malthusian traps and poor health and longevity (measured by anthropometric indicators and life expectancy). Political traps include both domestic traps - corruption, internal conflict - and external traps, namely geopolitical traps involving foreign powers. Economic traps include poor infrastructure (banks, harbors, roads, railroads, steam shipping, hydroelectric power) or raw materia |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Traps embraced or escaped |
| ISBN: | 1-283-14830-7 |
| 9786613148308 | |
| 981-4287-53-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910781210703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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