The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis by Haggard, Stephan

The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780881322835)

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The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis by Haggard, Stephan

The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis

$25.00
The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis by Haggard, Stephan

The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis

$25.00
Format: Paperback
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The Asian crisis has sparked a thoroughgoing reappraisal of current international financial norms, the policy prescriptions of the International Monetary Fund, and the adequacy of the existing financial architecture. To draw proper policy conclusions from the crisis, it is necessary to understand exactly what happened and why from both a political and an economic perspective.

In this study, renowned political scientist Stephan Haggard examines the political aspects of the crisis in the countries most affected--Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Haggard focuses on the political economy of the crisis, emphasizing the longer-run problems of moral hazard and corruption, as well as the politics of crisis management and the political fallout that ensued. He looks at the degree to which each government has rewoven the social safety net and discusses corporate and financial restructuring and greater transparency in business-government relations. Professor Haggard provides a counterpoint to the analysis by examining why Singapore, Taiwan, and the Philippines escaped financial calamity.
The volume... provides an excellent overview of both the theories and facts of the crisis. Strongly recommended for academic collections, lower-division undergraduate through research.

Author: Stephan Haggard
ISBN-10: 0881322830
ISBN-13: 9780881322835
Publisher: Peterson Institute for International Economic
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2000
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.04w x 0.61d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2000 pg. 88
Choice 03/01/2001 pg. 1316
By Stephan Haggard
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Stephan Haggard, visiting fellow, is the Lawrence and Sallye Krause Distinguished Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego. He has been a consultant to AID, the World Bank, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and the OECD and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the coauthor of Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea (2011) and Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform (Columbia University Press, 2007).

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