Capital Ungoverned

by Meredith Woo-Cumings, Kent E. Calder, Michael Loriaux

Book Overview

Japan, South Korea, Mexico, France, and Spain once exercised significant control over the allocation of credit, and used that control to facilitate economic adjustment and industrial development. In the 1980s all that changed. Why and how these states dismantled their activist credit policies is the subject of Capital Ungoverned. The volume brings together five specialists in the economics and politics of these various states to assess the internal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080148281X
• ISBN13: 9780801482816
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher