Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim

ISBN-13: 9780415130745 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 280 str.

Ravi Arvind Palat;Palat Ravi

Opis

This book situates the evolution of the high growth economies along Asia's Pacific Rim after the Second World War within broader global political and economic changes. Specifically, it charts the growth of capitalist economies in the region throughout periodic crises and successive waves of restructuring, and links changes in the world economy to shifts in the domestic political economies of East and Southeast Asia. It suggests that the financial crisis of 1997-98 laid the basis for a new phase of regional economic integration in Pacific-Asia.
Key issues examined include:
* comparison of patterns of state intervention and industrial organization in individual countries
* history of US power in the region
* analysis of class and state-society relations
* how shifts in regional dynamics can effect changes in the world economy
Through this detailed analysis of regional economic growth and integration since 1945, "Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim" concludes that the continued accumulation of capital in East and Southeast Asia is undermining the material foundations of US power.
This comprehensive survey of the emergence of Asia's Pacific Rim will intrigue and inform scholars of Asian Studies, Sociology and Development Studies alike.

Recenzje

'A very detailed synthesis of a large variety of empirical materials presented in previous scholarly work by other social scientists.' - Progress in Human Geography

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.