1st Edition

Flexibility, Foresight and Fortuna in Taiwan's Development

By Steve Chan, Cal Clark Copyright 1992
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
List of figures, List of tables, List of tables in the Appendix, About the authors, Preface, 1. The Problematique, 2. Theoretical Conundra, 3. From Rags to Riches, 4. Comparative Performances, 5. The (Other) Long March, 6. The Taiwan Puzzle, 7. Competing Models and Partial Results, 8. Eclecticism Beyond Orthodoxies, Appendix, Bibliography, Subject Index, Author Index

Biography

Steve Chan, Cal Clark

`In this important new book, Steve Chan and Cal Clark analyse the development of Taiwan, one of the `four little tigers' in Asia, in terms of four paradigms of political economy, developmentalism, dependencia and the trade-off perspective and statism. Taiwan's developmental history and comparative performances are carefully examined by means of qualitative and quantitative analysis ... This book is well researched and written and should be read by scholars as well as politicians of both developing and developed countries.' - Political Studies