The Rise and Decline of the Asian Century: False Starts on the Path to the Global Millennium

ISBN-13: 9781850433705 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 224 str.

Christopher Lingle

Opis

Before the spectacular economic catastrophes that have recently befallen the newly-emergent economies of Asia - notably those of Korea and Thailand - it was fashionable amongst economists to speak of an impending Asian century in which the Asia-Pacific region would supplant America as the centre of gravity for world affairs. Conventional wisdom held that the high growth rates enjoyed by the Asian tiger economies would continue relentlessly, even spreading within the region, while Western institutions, by contrast, would decline irreversibly.