The Economics of the Latecomers: Catching-Up, Technology Transfer and Institutions in Germany, Japan and South Korea

ISBN-13: 9780415140553 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 232 str.

Yang-Sup Shin; Jang-Sup Shin

Opis

Can it be an advantage to be backward? Alexander Gerschenkron developed a model of economic development in which relatively less-developed countries were at an advantage. State interventions could systematically compensate for inadequate supplies of capital, skilled labour, entrepreneurship and technology found in the more advanced. This text examines the relevance of this hypothesis to two of the most spectacularly successful economies of East Asia, Japan and South Korea. Combining insights from economic history, development economics and the economics of technology, the book emphasizes the need for historical models to understand historical processes.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part 1 On Methodology; Chapter 1 Late Industrialisation and Catching-Up; Chapter 2 Technology Transfer, Technological Capability and National Systems of Innovation; Chapter 3 Institutions, Institutional Change and Catching-Up; Part 2 On Interpreting History; Chapter 4 Comparative Settings; Chapter 5 Regional Contrast in the Development of the Iron and Steel Industry in Germany, 1800–1850; Chapter 6 UK–Germany–Japan Comparison in the Iron and Steel Industry, 1850–1930; Chapter 7 USA–Japan–Korea Comparison in the Iron and Steel Industry, 1950–1990; Chapter 8 USA–Japan–Korea Comparison in the Semiconductor Industry, 1950–1993; Conclusions;

O autorze

Jang-Sup Shin is currently working as a journalist for the Maeil Business Newspaper and TV in Seoul. He received his M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Cambridge University.