1st Edition

Capital Mobility and Distributional Conflict in Chile, South Korea, and Turkey

By Kurtuluş Gemici Copyright 2020
232 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

Why did many emerging countries pursue risky financial opening policies in a reckless manner, even after the painful example of the Latin American debt crisis? Unlike trade liberalization, which has mostly been beneficial in emerging countries, the removal of capital controls has led to boom-bust patterns in many countries. It is not simply driven by class or sectoral interests, nor is it just a... Read more

Preface
List of Figures
List of Tables

1 Introduction: Distributional Relations and Capital Mobility
2 Boom, Crash, Restraint: The Politics of Taming Capital Flows in Chile
3 Embracing Hot Money, Rejecting Cold Money in South Korea
4 Premature Financial Opening and Boom-Bust Cycles in Turkey
5 Conclusion

A Distribution and Economic Growth
B Capital Mobility, Sectoral Cleavages, and Social Classes
C Perils of Capital Account Liberalization
D Measuring Capital Account Openness
E List of Interviewees

Bibliography
Index

Biography

Kurtulus Gemici is One Hundred Talent Associate Professor of Sociology at Zhejiang University, China