State development planning: Did it create an East Asian Miracle?

Review of Austrian Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 305-323

  Powell, Benjamin ^a,b  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Independent Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Development planning; East Asia; Economic calculation; Economic freedom; Industrial planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 25444449228     PISSN: 08893047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11138-005-4015-x     Document Type: Review

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