St Adam and the dragons: Neo-classical economics and the East Asian miracle

Oxford Development Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 279-300

  Temple, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a HERTFORD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; MANUFACTURING; SPECIALISATION;

ASIA, (EAST);

EID: 0031411276     PISSN: 13600818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13600819708424136     Document Type: Article

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