Development, Crisis, and Class Struggle Learning from Japan and East Asia

by Burkett, Paul; Hart-Landsberg, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780312232504
• ISBN10: 0312232500
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-03
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

East Asia has long been the focus of development debates, first as a success story and now as a region in crisis. Nonetheless, there has been little if any serious discussion of what the region's experience tells us about capitalism and the prospects for non-capitalist development alternatives more centered on the needs of workers and communities. Development, Crisis and Class Struggle fills this gap.

Author Biography

Paul Burkett teaches economics at Indiana State University. He is author of Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective.

Martin Hart-Landsberg teaches economics at Lewis & Clark, Portland, Oregon. He is author of Korea: Division, Reunification, and U.S. Foreign Policy.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	vii
Abbreviations	ix
Introduction	1	(12)
Part One Alternative Perspectives on East Asia: Ideology in Development Visions
A Marxist Perspective on the Neoliberal Versus Structural-Institutionalist Debate	13	(12)
Flying Geese and Greater China Approaches: The Limits of Regionalized ``Modernization''	25	(12)
The Challenge and the Contradictions of Dependency Analysis	37	(8)
The Use and Abuse of Japan as a Progressive Model	45	(14)
Part Two Japanese Capitalism: Development, Crisis, and Ideology
The Japanese Economy: Crisis and Ideology	59	(12)
Historical Roots of the Japanese Model	71	(10)
The Postwar Struggle to Reshape the Japanese Political Economy	81	(12)
The Renewal of the Japanese Model	93	(14)
The Japanese Miracle and Its Contradictions	107	(16)
Dilemmas of Mature Japanese Capitalism	123	(28)
Part Three Contradictions of Capitalist Industrialization in East Asia
State-Capitalist Development, Crisis, and Class Struggle in the NIEs	151	(16)
Imperialism, Exploitation, and Uneven Development in the SEA-3	167	(12)
Part Four East Asia and the Crisis of Development Theory
Mainstream Responses to the East Asian Crisis	179	(10)
Beyond TINA: Toward Worker-Community Centered Visions of Development	189	(26)
Notes	215	(26)
References	241	(24)
Index	265