How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region

by Joe Studwell

Book Overview

Named by Bill Gates as one of his Top 5 Books of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year In the 1980s and 1990s many in the West came to believe in the myth of an East-Asian economic miracle, with countries seen as not just development prodigies but as a unified bloc, culturally and economically similar, and inexorably on the rise. In How Asia Works , Joe Studwell distills extensive research into the economics of nine countries--Japan, South Korea,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802121322
• ISBN13: 9780802121325
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.2"