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

by Amsden, Alice H.

• ISBN13: 9780195170597
• ISBN10: 0195170598
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 heavily in R&D. Their developmental states had transformed themselves into champions of science and technology. By contrast, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico had experienced a wave of acquisitions and mergers that left even more of their leading enterprises controlled by multinational firms. The developmental states of Mexico and Turkey had become hand-tied by membership in NAFTA and the European Union. Which model of late industrialization will prevail, the "independent" or the "integrationist," is a question that challenges the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

Industrializing Late	1	(30)
I. SINKING BEHIND, 1850--circa 1950
The Handloom Weavers' Bones	31	(20)
Tribulations of Technology Transfer	51	(19)
Three-Pronged Investment	70	(29)
Manufacturing Experience Matters	99	(26)
II. SNEAKING AHEAD, circa 1950--
Speeding Up	125	(36)
Selective Seclusion	161	(29)
National Firm Leaders	190	(61)
III. SQUARING OFF, circa 1980--
From Mechanisms of Control to Mechanisms of Resistance	251	(33)
``The Rest'' Will Rise Again	284	(11)
Notes	295	(40)
References	335	(52)
Index	387