Palat Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-134-79096-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

This book situates the evolution of capitalist economies along Asia's Pacific Rim after the Second World War within broader global, political and economic changes. Specifically, it charts their growth at the interface of periodic crises and successive waves of restructuring, and links changes in the world economy to shifts in regional dynamics in east and southeast Asia. It suggests that while the expansion of Japanese corporate networks was crucial to the emergence of the region as a low-cost exporter to the world, the reintegration of China into the world market will free the region from its dependence on the US as a market of last resort.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Palat, Ravi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements

List of Tables and Figures

Introduction: Dragons, Tigers and Other Myths of Our Time

1. Geopolitical Ecology of US Hegemony

Korean War, Military Keynesianism, and the New World Order

Free Enterprise System and the Changing Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Production

2. Strong States, Weak Societies: State and Class in the Asian Rimlands

Recasting State-Society Relations

Summary

3. The Making of Industrial Behemoths: Patterns of State Intervention and Industrial Organization

Politics in Command?

Patterns of Industrial Organization

4. Crisis of US Hegemony and the Growth of Regional Economic Integration in Pacific-Asia

The Gathering Storm

Riding the Dollar Juggernaut

Making the 'Miracle' Economies of the Pacific Rim

Reprise and Review

5. Debts and Delusions: Crumbling of a Regional Economy

Years of Living Dangerously

A Paradise of the Blind

Things Fall Apart

A Change of Skies

6. A Bonfire of Illusions

A Brave New World

Houses of Glass

Epilogue: A Future Imperfect: Remaking a Regional Economy

Notes

Tables

Figures

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Ravi Arvind Palat is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Binghampton and has previously taught at the Universities of Hawaii and Auckland.