Asia-Pacific Transitions

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Overview

   1. Overview

      • David E. Andersson, Jessie P. H. Poon

      Pages 1-11

   2. Growth and Development in East Asia and the OECD Countries

      • Åke E. Andersson

      Pages 12-27

3. Institutional Frameworks

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. The Chinese Kaleidoscope: Chinese Economic Development in the Light of the New Institutional Theories

      • Kurt Lundgren

      Pages 31-46

   3. On Lao Tzu: His Impact on Chinese Thinking

      • Zhang Wei-bin

      Pages 47-56

   4. Value Systems and Organization of Scholarship and Research in East and West

      • Martin Beckmann

      Pages 57-63

   5. Illiberal Democracy in Southeast Asia

      • Jan Engberg

      Pages 64-80

   6. Beyond Dire Straits? Transnationalization and Renationalization in the Southern Growth Triangle

      • Niklas Eklund

      Pages 81-99

   7. Land-Use Controls and Economic Freedom: the Diverging Histories of Singapore and Taipei

      • David E. Andersson

      Pages 100-112

4. Environmental and Economic Constraints

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Ecological Sustainability

      • Finn R. Førsund

      Pages 115-123

   3. Pollution Transitions and Economic Growth in Asia

      • Hua Chang-i

      Pages 124-134

   4. Social Security Systems in Southeast Asia: Are They Sustainable?

      • Mukul G. Asher

      Pages 135-154

   5. Stable Expansion for the Chinese Economy: Lessons from International Experience

      • Lawrence R. Klein

      Pages 155-168

5. Cross-Border Networks

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. The Complexity of Self-Organizing East Asian Networks

      • David F. Batten

      Pages 171-188

   3. Asia Pacific and European Patterns of Intra- and Extra-Regional Trade Compared

      • Jessie P. H. Poon, Edmund R. Thompson

      Pages 189-206

   4. Japanese Exports and Foreign Direct Investment

      • Pontus Åberg

      Pages 207-223

   5. Business Integration across the Hong Kong-Chinese Border: Patterns and Explanations in the Garment Industry

      • Edmund R. Thompson

      Pages 224-238

Modern focus on the Asia Pacific has centred on its rapid transformation in the span of a mere two decades. Since the 1997 economic crisis however, attention has now turned to transition issues as the region faces the challenge of global structural transformation that has and will affect the direction of the region's long-term development. Drawing from a range of contributors from several disciplines, this book seeks to capture some of the multifaceted dimensions of these transitions as the region adjusts to new global realities.

• bibliography
• development
• East Asia
• Economic Development
• Japan
• sustainability

• Institute of Economics Academia Sinica, Taiwan

  David E. Andersson

• Department of Geography, University of Buffalo-SUNY, USA

  Jessie P. H. Poon

AKE E. ANDERSSON Professor, Department of Infrastructure and Planning, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm MUKUL ASHER Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore PONTUS ABERG Consultant, Temaplan Sweden DAVID F. BATTEN Professor, Temalan Australia MARTIN BECKMANN Professor, Department of Economics, Brown University and Department of Economics, University of Munich HUA CHANG-I Professor, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University JAN ENGBERG Associate Professor, Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, Umeå University NIKLAS EKLUND Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Umeå University FINN FORSUND Professor, Department of Economics, University of Oslo JANERIK GIDLUND Professor, Department of Political Science, Umeå University KIYOSHI KOBAYASHI Professor, Graduate School of Civil Engineering, Kyoto University LAWRENCE R. KLEIN Benjamin Franklin Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania KURT LUNDGREN Professor, National Institute for Working Life, Sweden EDMUND R. THOMPSON Assistant Professor, School of Business, University of Hong Kong ZHANG WEIBIN Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore

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