Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Business Groups and Economic Organization: 1. The problem of economic organization; 2. Interpreting business groups in South Korea and Taiwan; 3. A model of business groups: the interaction of authority and market power in the context of competitive economic activity; 4. Economic organization in South Korea and Taiwan: a first test of the model; Part II. Emergence and Divergence of the Economies: 5. The origins of capitalist economic organization; 6. The rise of intermediary demand: a reassessment of the 'Asian miracle'; 7. Global matching, demand responsiveness, and the emergence of divergent economies; 8. Trade performance of South Korea and Taiwan: a second test of the model; Conclusions; Appendix A. Mathematical model of business groups; Appendix B. Examples of differential pricing practices of Korean groups; Appendix C. Hypothesis tests of the model; Appendix D. The role of debt in the Korean financial crisis, 1997; References; Index.

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This book, first published in 2006, offers an explanation of the development paths of post-World War II Korea and Taiwan.

About the Author

Robert C. Feenstra is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Davis. He also directs the International Trade and Investment program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the former editor of the Journal of International Economics and an Associate Editor of the American Economic Review. Feenstra has published over 70 articles in international trade and edited 8 books. Gary G. Hamilton is a Professor of Sociology at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He has published numerous books and articles, including most recently Cosmopolitan Capitalists: Hong Kong and the Chinese Diaspora at the end of the 20th Century, editor and contributor (University of Washington Press, 1999), The Economic Organization of East Asian Capitalism, with Marco Orru and Nicole Biggart (Sage 1997) and Asian Business Networks, editor (de Gruyter, 1996).

Reviews

'Emergent Economies, Divergent Paths is an inspiring book containing grand theory as well as in-depth empirical details on the history, economy, politics and society of the two countries ...' Journal of International Management