Asia-Pacific Transitions

Modern focus on the Asia Pacific has centred on its rapid transformation in the span of a mere two decades. Since the 1997 economic crisis however, attention has now turned to transition issues as the region faces the challenge of global structural transformation that has and will affect the direction of the region's long-term development. Drawing from a range of contributors from several disciplines, this book seeks to capture some of the multifaceted dimensions of these transitions as the region adjusts to new global realities.

Autorentext
AKE E. ANDERSSON Professor, Department of Infrastructure and Planning, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm MUKUL ASHER Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore PONTUS ABERG Consultant, Temaplan Sweden DAVID F. BATTEN Professor, Temalan Australia MARTIN BECKMANN Professor, Department of Economics, Brown University and Department of Economics, University of Munich HUA CHANG-I Professor, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University JAN ENGBERG Associate Professor, Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, Umeå University NIKLAS EKLUND Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Umeå University FINN FORSUND Professor, Department of Economics, University of Oslo JANERIK GIDLUND Professor, Department of Political Science, Umeå University KIYOSHI KOBAYASHI Professor, Graduate School of Civil Engineering, Kyoto University LAWRENCE R. KLEIN Benjamin Franklin Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania KURT LUNDGREN Professor, National Institute for Working Life, Sweden EDMUND R. THOMPSON Assistant Professor, School of Business, University of Hong Kong ZHANG WEIBIN Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore

Zusammenfassung
Since the 1997 economic crisis however, attention has now turned to transition issues as the region faces the challenge of global structural transformation that has and will affect the direction of the region's long-term development.

Inhalt
List of Figures and Tables Notes on the Contributors INTRODUCTION Overview; D.E.Andersson & J.P.H.Poon Growth and Development in Eastern Asia and the OECD Countries; A.E.Andersson PART I: INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS The Chinese Kaleidoscope: Chinese Economic Development in the Light of the New Institutional Theories; K.Lundgren On Lao Tzu: His Impact on Chinese Thought; Z.Wei-bin Value Systems and Organization of Scholarship and Research in East and West; M.Beckmann Illiberal Democracy in Southeast Asia; J.Engberg Beyond Dire Straits? Transnationalization and Renationalization in the Southern Growth Triangle; N.Eklund Landuse Controls and Economic Freedom: The Diverging Histories of Singapore and Taipei; D.E.Andersson PART II: ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC CONSTRAINTS Ecological Sustainability; F.Forsund Pollution Transitions and Economic Growth in Asia; H.Chang-I Social Security Systems in Southeast Asia: Are They Sustainable; M.Asher Stable Expansion for the Chinese Economy: Lessons from International Experience; L.R.Klein PART III: CROSS-BORDER NETWORKS The Complexity of Self-Organizing East Asian Networks; D.F.Batten Asia Pacific and European Patterns of Intra and Extra Regional Trade; J.P.H.Poon & E.R.Thompson Japanese Exports and Foreign Direct Investment; P.Aberg Business Integration Across the Hong Kong-Chinese Border: Patterns and Explanations in the Garment Industry; E.R.Thompson Illiberal and Successful? In Search of Sustainable Regional Growth in Authoritarian States; J.Gidlund Japanese Transition to Knowledge Arenas: An Infrastructural Perspective; K.Kobayashi Emerging Knowledge Networks in Eastern Asia; D.E.Andersson Bibliography Index