1st Edition
Taiwan's Economic Transformation Leadership, Property Rights and Institutional Change 1949-1965
1. Posing the Problem 2. Taiwan’s Political Economy in Historical Perspective, 1683-1945 3. Taiwan’s Command Economy and the Tipping Point, 1945-1952 4. The First Debate, 1952-1954: Command Economy or Market Economy? 5. The Second Debate, 1954-1958: How to Restructure the Trade System? 6. The Third Debate, 1959 to 1960: Whether to Promote Foreign Investment? 7. Political Leadership, Institutional Change, and the Rise of a Modern Market Economy 8. Conclusion
Biography
Tai-Chun Kuo is Research Fellow and Ramon H. Myers is Senior Fellow, both at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, USA.
"[T]his book gives the reader insights into Taiwan's developmental experience and the direction in which, under different circumstances, the Chinese post-war development of Taiwan might have proceeded. The work will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the economic and political history and development of Taiwan. More broadly, it will also appeal to scholars and students of China's historical and contemporary development, Asian economics, and Asian studies." - Cheng Linsun, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth; Journal of International and Global Studies Vol. 3, No. 2 Spring 2012
'The chapters are particularly convincing in demonstrating the significance of technocratic elites to Taiwan’s shift to a market economy, and the volume overall would appeal to students and scholars of East Asian economic development.' - Fritz Gaenslen; JOURNAL OF CHINESE POLITICAL SCIENCE (2013)
