The Rise of "The Rest": Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing Economies

by Alice H. Amsden

Book Overview

After World War II a select number of countries outside Japan and the West--those that Alice Amsden calls "the rest"--gained market share in modern industries and altered global competition. By 2000, a great divide had developed within "the rest", the lines drawn according to prewar manufacturing experience and equality in income distribution. China, India, Korea and Taiwan had built their own national manufacturing enterprises that were investing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195170598
• ISBN13: 9780195170597
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"