East Asian Capitalism Diversity, Continuity, and Change

by Walter, Andrew; Zhang, Xiaoke

• ISBN13: 9780198717553
• ISBN10: 0198717555
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-09-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Andrew Walter, University of Melbourne, Professor of International Relations,Xiaoke Zhang, Professor, University of Manchester

Andrew Walter is Professor of International Relations in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Until September 2012 he was Reader in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 2001-2012 Andrew was an Academic Director of the TRIUM Global Executive MBA Programme, an alliance between the LSE, NYU Stern School of Business, and the HEC School of Management (Paris), which was ranked #2 in the world in 2011 by the Financial Times. Externally, over 2009-2012 he served as a member of the Council of Chatham House, a leading British think-tank of international affairs and currently sits on the Academic Advisory Panel of The International Centre for Financial Regulation and on the editorial board of the Review of International Studies, the house journal of the British International Studies Association.


Xiaoke Zhang is Professor at the Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester. His research interests are in comparative political economy, with a regional focus on East Asia. His recent publications include The Political Economy of Capital Market Reforms in Southeast Asia (Palgrave Macmillan 2011) and International Financial Governance under Stress (Cambridge University Press, 2003, with Geoffrey R.D. Underhill).

Table of Contents

PART ONE INTRODUCTION
1. Debating East Asian Capitalism: Issues and Themes, Andrew Walter and Xiaoke Zhang
PART TWO BUSINESS-GOVERNMENT RELATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES
2. Government-industry Relations in China: A Review of the Art of the State, Shaun Breslin
3. Not of a Piece: Developmental States, Industrial Policy and Evolving Patterns of Capitalism in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, Karl Fields
4. State-business Linkages in Southeast Asia: The Developmental State, Neo-liberalism and Enterprises Development, Edmund Terence Gomez
PART THREE LABOUR MARKETS AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
5. Reform and Institutional Change in East Asian Labour Markets, Frederic Deyo
6. Durable Subordination: Chinese Labour Regime through a South Korean Lens, Ching Kwan Lee
7. Continuity and Change in the Japanese Economy: Evidence of Institutional Interactions between Financial and Labour Markets, Mari Sako and Masahiro Kotosaka
PART FOUR FINANCIAL MARKET STRUCTURES
8. Political Hierarchy and Finance: The Politics of China's Financial Development, Richard W. Carney
9. The Political Economy of Financial Development in Southeast Asia, Thomas Pepinsky
10. The Japanese Financial Sector's Transition from High Growth to the 'Lost Decades', Wataru Takahashi
11. Dominant Coalitions and Capital Market Changes in Northeast Asia, Xiaoke Zhang
PART FIVE CONCLUSION
12. Understanding Variations and Changes in East Asian Capitalism, Andrew Walter and Xiaoke Zhang