Publisher's Synopsis
Using the developmental history of Taiwan as a starting point, this book examines the success of several prevalent formulations of domestic development and international economy.;The authors examine Taiwan's policy performance in relation to the developmental, the dependency, the statistical and the tradeoff perspectives on political economy. They reject these in favour of the key ideas of flexibility, foresight, and fortuna as an explanation of Taiwan's relatively unusual success in achieving domestic development and upward mobility in the international system.;Features of the book are an up-to-date summary of economic, social, and political development in Taiwan; a presentation of complex theories and demonstration of how these theories can be applied to a single country and concrete applications and comparisons of competing theories about development.
