Diversity and Transformations of Asian Capitalisms

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ISBN: 9780415604406 | 0415604400
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Copyright: 11/22/2011

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The book traces the specificities of Asian economies back to the formation of their basic institutions after WWII. It follows their transformations after the 1997 Asian crisis until the eruption of the subprime crisis.

List of Figures	p. xiv
List of tables	p. xviii
List of contributors	p. xxi
Acknowledgements	p. xxiv
Introduction: Asia: a social laboratory of contemporary capitalisms?	p. 1
Japanese capitalism: the companyism eroded by firms' heterogeneity and the lack of new coordinating mechanisms 13
How has the Japanese mode of régulation changed?	p. 15
The transformation of the Japanese corporate system and the hierarchical nexus of institutions	p. 31
The increasing heterogeneity of firms in Japanese capitalism: facts, causes, consequences, and implications	p. 56
Labor and financial-market risks and welfare spending: a comparative study with a special emphasis on Japan	p. 72
Increasing wage inequality in Japan since the end of the 1990s: an institutional explanation	p. 90
Institutional changes and the transformations of the growth regime in the Japanese economy: facing the impact of the world economic crisis and Asian integration	p. 107
Chinese and Korean capitalisms: two contrasted trajectories	p. 129
China: export or investment-led growth regime?
Development mode and capability building in the age of modularization and regional integration: origins of structural adjustments of Chinese economy	p. 131
Chinese international production linkages and Japanese multinationals: evolving industrial interdependence and coordination	p. 143
Analysis of the linkage effect in Chinese export-led growth: according to the subdivisions of Asian international input-output tables	p. 165
The Chinese growth regime and the world economy	p. 184
Korea: major transformations but uncertain régulation modes
The Korean economy between two economic crises: hybridization or convergence towards a market-led economy?	p. 209
The great transformations in the Korean economy since 1962: processes and consequences	p. 229
Diversity of Asian capitalisms: from globalization to Asian integration?	p. 241
The impact of internationalization: distinctive national trajectories but a common domination of competition
Asian capitalisms: institutional configurations and firm heterogeneity	p. 243
The consequences of internationalization of trade and financial transactions on growth: combining an institutional hierarchy hypothesis with a Keynes-Minsky approach	p. 264
Analysing conditions for monetary integrations: Asia and Europe
Comparative analysis of conditions for monetary integration: Europe and Asia	p. 287
Given the heterogeneity of Asian countries, is a monetary integration or coordination possible?	p. 308
Conclusion: the evolving diversity of Asian capitalisms, from the Asian crisis to the subprime crisis	p. 330
Bibliography	p. 350
Index	p. 372
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