Focuses on the paradox of development in the newly industrializing
country of South Korea.
This book debunks the rosy success story about South Korean
economic development by analyzing how the state and businesses
formed an alliance, while excluding labor, in order to attain
economic development, and how these three entities were transformed
in the process. The author analyzes the paradox of South Korean
development from 1960 to 1990 -- a period during which the country
experienced dramatic social, economic, and political changes. By
reexamining South Korea's development through the collaboration and
conflict between the state and the chaebol (big businesses), she
illuminates the inherent limitations and problems of the
developmental state.
"Among the many books that have been written on Korea's
"economic miracle", none does a better job than this one of
chronicling the growth of the giant industrial conglomerates that
have come to dominate the Korean economy and setting out the
evolution of their relations to the state. Eun Mee Kim harnesses an
unusually rich set of data to a nicely nuanced analysis of the
changing structure of business-state relations in Korea. Anyone
trying to understand the dynamics of East Asian industrialization
needs to read Big Business, Strong State". -- Peter Evans,
University of California, Berkeley
"Big Business, Strong State is an important book on an important
subject. Based on careful empirical research, Eun Mee Kim analyzes
the changing roles of state and business conglomerates in the
dramatic development of South Korea that within a generation turned
one of the world's poorest countries into an industrial society.
Kim illuminates the Korean storyby discussing it in a comparative
context, and she identifies critical unresolved issues in Korea's
future". -- Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Asa Messer Professor of
Sociology and Director of the Center for the Comparative Study of
Development at Brown University
General
Imprint: |
State University of New York Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
SUNY series in Korean Studies |
Release date: |
February 1997 |
First published: |
February 1997 |
Authors: |
Eun Mee Kim
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
280 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7914-3210-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Business & Economics >
Economics >
General
|
LSN: |
0-7914-3210-6 |
Barcode: |
9780791432105 |
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