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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.
Price: $38.00
Pages: 280
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
12 November 1992
ISBN: 9780231071475
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
HISTORY / Asia / General
Jung-En Woo is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. She has also taught at Colgate University and Columbia University. She graduated in history and English literature from Bowdoin College, and has master's degree in Latin American studies and a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.
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