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Book SynopsisFew observers of Mexico and Brazil in the 1930s, or South Korea and Taiwan in the mid-1950s, would have predicted that these nations would become economic "miracles" several decades later. These newly industrializing countries (NICs) challenge much of our conventional wisdom about economic development and raise important questions about internation
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Figures and Tables, pg. ix*Preface, pg. xiii*CHAPTER 1. Paths of Industrialization: An Overview, pg. 3*CHAPTER 2. Policy Interventions and Markets: Development Strategy Typologies and Policy Options, pg. 32*CHAPTER 3. The Role of Foreign Capital in Economic Development, pg. 55*CHAPTER 4. Big Business and the State, pg. 90*CHAPTER 5. How Societies Change Developmental Models or Keep Them: Reflections on the Latin American Experience in the 1930s and the Postwar World, pg. 110*CHAPTER 6. Political Regimes and Development Strategies: South Korea and Taiwan, pg. 139*CHAPTER 7. Economic Policy and the Popular Sector, pg. 179*CHAPTER 8. Contrasts in the Political Economy of Development Policy Change, pg. 207*CHAPTER 9. Industrial Policy in East Asia: Does It Lead or Follow the Market?, pg. 231*CHAPTER 10. The Next Stage of Industrialization in Taiwan and South Korea, pg. 267*CHAPTER 11. The Latin American Strategy of Import Substitution: Failure or Paradigm for the Region?, pg. 292*CHAPTER 12. The United States and Japan as Models of Industrialization, pg. 323*CHAPTER 13. Reflections on Culture and Social Change, pg. 353*CHAPTER 14. Explaining Strategies and Patterns of Industrial Development, pg. 368*Contributors, pg. 405*Index, pg. 407