Risk Rules How Local Politics Threaten the Global Economy

by Zonis, Marvin; Lefkovitz, Dan; Wilkin, Sam; Yackley, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9781932841596
• ISBN10: 1932841598
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-05-03
• Publisher: Agate B2

Summary

Rev. ed. of: The kimchi matters / by Marvin Zonis, Dan Lefkovitz, and Sam Wilkin. c2003.

Author Biography

Marvin Zonis, professor emeritus of international political economy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, is the author of The Eastern European Opportunity and Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah. Dan Lefkovitz works on Morningstar's European research effort. He has written for Asian Wall Street Journal, the Far Eastern Economic Review, and the Jerusalem Post. Sam Wilkin, associate director of the consultancy practice at Oxford Analytica, has written for the Financial Times, Barron's, Risk Management. The Banker, and World Trade. Joseph Yackley is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago and covers the Middle East for the Oxford Business Group. He has written for Reuters, Internationale Politik. Der Tagesspiegel, and Turkish Policy Quarterly.

Table of Contents

Preface to Risk Rules	p. vii
Preface to The Kimchi Matters	p. ix
Risk Rules: An Introduction	p. xix
Discontent
ôWe Practically Own Everything…ö: Corruption	p. 3
The Cake: Ethnic Conflict	p. 17
Down with Mubarak: Social Change	p. 33
ôThey Transform Themselves into Tigersö: The J-Curve
Managing Discontent
Toppling Punto Fijo: Opposition	p. 57
Tony Blair's Gay Gangsters: Channels for Discontent	p. 77
The World's Most Powerful Man: State Power	p. 95
Leadership
Good Leaders and Bad: Quality of Leadership	p. 109
After Tito-Tito: Succession Threat	p. 119
Fujishock: The Ruling Bargain	p. 137
Policy
Clockwork Crises: The Instability Trap	p. 161
Powers Behind the Throne: Entrenched Interests	p. 173
The Visible Hand: Government Intervention	p. 197
ôWhen England Sneezes…ö: External Shocks	p. 215
Economic Potential Energy: Institutions	p. 243
Conclusion-ôEating Big Macs Doesn't Make it McChinaö	p. 269
Notes	p. 297
Index	p. 339
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