Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim

This book situates the evolution of capitalist economies along Asia''s Pacific Rim after the Second World War within broader global, political and economic changes. Specifically, it charts their growth at the interface of periodic crises and successive waves of restructuring, and links changes in the world economy to shifts in regional dynamics in East and Southeast Asia. It suggests that while the expansion of Japanese corporate networks was crucial to the emergence of the region as a low-cost exporter to the world, the reintegration of China into the world market will free the region from its dependence on the US as a market of last resort.

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Table of contents : Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Tables and Figures
Introduction: Dragons, Tigers and Other Myths of Our Time
1. Geopolitical Ecology of US Hegemony
Korean War, Military Keynesianism, and the New World Order
Free Enterprise System and the Changing Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Production
2. Strong States, Weak Societies: State and Class in the Asian Rimlands
Recasting State-Society Relations
Summary
3. The Making of Industrial Behemoths: Patterns of State Intervention and Industrial Organization
Politics in Command?
Patterns of Industrial Organization
4. Crisis of US Hegemony and the Growth of Regional Economic Integration in Pacific-Asia
The Gathering Storm
Riding the Dollar Juggernaut
Making the 'Miracle' Economies of the Pacific Rim
Reprise and Review
5. Debts and Delusions: Crumbling of a Regional Economy
Years of Living Dangerously
A Paradise of the Blind
Things Fall Apart
A Change of Skies
6. A Bonfire of Illusions
A Brave New World
Houses of Glass
Epilogue: A Future Imperfect: Remaking a Regional Economy
Notes
Tables
Figures
Bibliography