How Asia Works

Joe Studwell is the founding editor of the China Economic Quarterly. A freelance journalist in Asia for over twenty years, he has also written for the Economist Intelligence Unit, The Economist, The Financial Times, The Asian Wall Street Journal and the The Far Eastern Economic Review. He is the author of The China Dream and Asian Godfathers.

出版者:Grove Press

作者:Joe Studwell

页数:320

出版时间:2013-6-25

价格:USD 27.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780802119599

图书标签:经济经济学区域研究亚洲政治经济学历史比较政治财经

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In the 1980s and 1990s many in the West came to believe in the myth of an East-Asian economic miracle. Japan was going to dominate, then China. Countries were called “tigers” or “mini-dragons,” and were seen as not just development prodigies, but as a unified bloc, culturally and economically similar, and inexorably on the rise.

Joe Studwell has spent two decades as a reporter in the region, and The Financial Times said he “should be named chief myth-buster for Asian business.” In How Asia Works, Studwell distills his extensive research into the economies of nine countries—Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, and China—into an accessible, readable narrative that debunks Western misconceptions, shows what really happened in Asia and why, and for once makes clear why some countries have boomed while others have languished.

Studwell’s in-depth analysis focuses on three main areas: land policy, manufacturing, and finance. Land reform has been essential to the success of Asian economies, giving a kick start to development by utilizing a large workforce and providing capital for growth. With manufacturing, industrial development alone is not sufficient, Studwell argues. Instead, countries need “export discipline,” a government that forces companies to compete on the global scale. And in finance, effective regulation is essential for fostering, and sustaining growth. To explore all of these subjects, Studwell journeys far and wide, drawing on fascinating examples from a Philippine sugar baron’s stifling of reform to the explosive growth at a Korean steel mill.

Thoroughly researched and impressive in scope, How Asia Works is essential reading for anyone interested in the development of these dynamic countries, a region that will shape the future of the world.

读后感

应该是这几年读过的最好的宏观经济和发展经济学的书了。这本书回答了我多年以来一直想问的问题那就是为何东南亚的经济上不来，而东亚却是如此的成功？从三大角度来分析，用大量有说服力的案例，数据，而且翻译也非常好，让我的多年的疑惑得到了解答，让我对一个国家的经济发展...  

在书里他大力推崇了美国的开放，自由和全球化，以及在国际事务中的大国责任，不知道他对美国现行的政策会如何评价？而中国在这本书出版后的十年经历了非常大的变化，医疗，养老，科技，也很好奇他对中国一带一路的评价，也好奇他是否会想到华为的5G技术会逼的美国不惜挑起贸易...  

在书里他大力推崇了美国的开放，自由和全球化，以及在国际事务中的大国责任，不知道他对美国现行的政策会如何评价？而中国在这本书出版后的十年经历了非常大的变化，医疗，养老，科技，也很好奇他对中国一带一路的评价，也好奇他是否会想到华为的5G技术会逼的美国不惜挑起贸易...  

斯塔维尔不是学院经济学家，而是一名长期活跃于亚洲的经济记者，可能这正是这本书写得如此引人入胜的原因之一。另一个原因恐怕是读者的预期被小小地（或者大大的）颠覆：我们自学校教育以来就不断地被新自由主义经济主张狂轰滥炸，以至于市场、守夜人政府等概念甚至有了先验的...

我读完全书后惊讶于后面关于注释及补充注解都有长达50页左右的内容，感慨于作者的严谨。 整体来看作者做了非常多的实地调研和了解，非常推荐想借此书开拓对亚洲主要经济体近几十年发展路径理解的朋友读一读。 有朋友的书评提到认为此书的理论构建非常简单，得出结论不严谨，我...  

用户评价

A 5-star book about the success of east Asian economic development

Export discipline 推动产业升级

Read this right after coming back from Thailand and got a perfect idea of why everything were so fucked up there.

从一个历史的角度对东北亚（日本、韩国，台湾及大陆）及东南亚国家发展的对比分析，作者认为平均地权、幼儿工业保护及出口导向提升制造能力，及金融政策的对于长期工业发展的战略性支持是东北亚国家经济发展的最重要因素。完全的市场竞争及金融开放对于发展中国家经济造成负面影响，因为资本是逐利，仅关注于资本的最高回报，而不会长期支持国家工业的战略发展，减少国家技术阶梯上的进步。 很多精彩的观点，如农业的平均化及私有化提高农民的积极性，提高农业产出，为工业的发展提供原料、食物及初期的发展资金，避免进口食物浪费大量的外汇。

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