{"product_id":"asias-flying-geese-9780801448683","title":"Asias Flying Geese","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Asia's Flying Geese, Walter F. Hatch tackles the puzzle of Japan's paradoxically slow change during the economic crisis it faced in the 1990s. Why didn't the purportedly unstoppable pressures of globalization force a rapid and radical shift in...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this important new book, Walter Hatch offers an original and convincing explanation for some of this stasis [in Japan's economic situation], examining how regionalization strategies sustained Japan's model of capitalism well past its sell-by date.... It is a fascinating story of how Japan managed globalization, and resisted its impulses temporarily through a strategy of regionalization. Drawing on the flying geese metaphor, Hatch explains how the lead goose, Japan, deployed its capital, technology and norms to the Asian flock, thereby bolstering its system even as it was becoming increasingly dysfunctional.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jeff Kingston * Japan Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: External Sources of Continuity and ChangePart One: BASELINE\u003cbr\u003e 1. Social Networks and the Power They Produce\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Postwar Political Economy of Japan\u003cbr\u003e 3. Leading a Flock of GeesePart Two: THE 1990S\u003cbr\u003e 4. Maintaining the Relational Status Quo\u003cbr\u003e 5. Elite Regionalization and the Protective Buffer\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Costs of ContinuityPart Three: THE NEW MILLENNIUM\u003cbr\u003e 7 Grounding Asia's Flying Geese\u003cbr\u003e 8 Some Change... at LastConclusion: Beyond Asia\u003ci\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MB - Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577473634647,"sku":"9780801448683","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801448683.jpg?v=1746095455","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/asias-flying-geese-9780801448683","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}