Race to the Swift State and Finance in Korean Industrialization

Name: Race to the Swift State and Finance in Korean Industrialization
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ISBN: 9780231071475

ISBN-10: 0231071477

ISBN-13: 9780231071475

Edition: 1991

Authors: Jung-En Woo

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A comprehensive and original account of the rise of Korea's developmental state, Race to the Swift by Jung-en Woo argues that Korea's industrial growth is neither a miracle nor a cultural mystery, but the outcome of a previously misunderstood political economy.

Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 11/12/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Preface


Theoretical Considerations Soldiers, Bankers, and the Zaibatsu in Colonial Korea


Prologue to the Future A Method to His Madness


The Political Economy of Import-Substitution Industrialization in Rhee's Korea In the East Asian Cauldron: Korea Takes Off


The Search for Autonomy


The Big Push The Political Economy of Korea, Inc.


The State, Finance, and the Chaebol Slouching Toward the Market


Financial Liberalization in the 1980s


Notes


Bibliography


Index