The asian financial crisis and the asian developmental state: Ten years after

Asian Survey

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 829-833

  Dittmer, Lowell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 57749159930     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: 1533838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/as.2007.47.6.829     Document Type: Editorial

References (7)

1. All but one of these papers were originally presented at a conference held at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, in February 2007, support for which we wish to thank the Institute of East Asian Studies of the University of California and Thammasat University.
2. See Wing Thye Woo, "The Asian Financial Crisis: Hindsight, Insight, Foresight," ASEAN Economic Bulletin 17:2 (August 2000), p. 113.
3. See Eiko Ikegami, "Democracy in an Age of Cyber-Financial Globalization: Time, Space, and Embeddedness from an Asian Perspective," Social Research 66:3 (Fall 1999), pp. 887 ff.
4. This is not to say, of course, that only a native can truly "know" a country - but sometimes a native can know more than the rest of us, caeteris paribus.
5. Conspicuously missing in our survey is Indonesia, unfortunately enough, the largest afflicted economy (in terms of population). Analysis of this case is still in progress.
6. For a comprehensive critique of recent American Asian policy, see the previous special issue of this journal, 47:4 (July/August 2007).
7. It is tempting to try to link the rise of populism to the increase in income inequality also attributed to the AFC, but no such direct causal linkage has yet been empirically demonstrated.