In this seminar, considerable emphasis will be placed upon class participation and student presentations. Each student is expected to do a 10-minute presentation on a book on the reading list, and hand in a 2-page synopsis thereof (for a book written by lots of authors, select two chapters to focus on). It is expected that students will familiarize themselves with the general principles of  development economics as a field - in effect, that the average student in the seminar will have taken an introductory course in development economics or will consult an undergraduate development text to get the necessary background (Cf: Perkins et al, Todaro, Kindleberger and Herrick, Nofziger). Introductory lectures will be based on my comparative economics systems text, on reserve at the library.  My telephone number is 687-5890; my e-mail is viksning@georgetown.edu, and this semester's office hours are TuTh10-11:45 AM.
 

The student is expected to do a research paper, preferably quantitatively oriented, on a topic of his/her choice. A country study involving, for example, the macro-economic framework of a development plan is one approach, or the survey of the literature concerning some issue in development economics of interest in the region.
 

I.    Introduction

George J. Viksnins, Economic Systems in Historical Perspective (Kendall/Hunt, 1997), Chs. 1, 8-9.

Takatoshi Ito and Anne O. Krueger (eds.), Deregulation and Interdependence in the Asia-Pacific Region (Chicago, 2000).

Murray Weidenbaum and Samuel Hughes, The Bamboo Network (The Free Press, 1996).

Edmund Terence Gomez and Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao (eds.), Chinese Business in Southeast Asia (Curzon Press, 2001).

Victor Mallet, The Trouble with Tigers  (HarperCollins, 1999).

James W. Morley (ed.), Driven by Growth: Political Change in the Asia-Pacific Region , Second Edition(Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1999).

Danny M. Leipziger (ed.), Lessons from East Asia (Univ. of Michigan Press, 1997).

Christopher Lingle, The Rise and Decline of the Asian Century (Univ. of Washington Press, 1998).

Holger Henke and Ian Boxill (eds.), The End of the "Asian Model'? (John Benjamins, 2000).

Maria Weber (ed.), Reforming Economic Ssytems in Asia (Edward Elgar, 2001).

E. T. Gomez and H.-H. M. Tsiao (eds.), Chinese Business in Southeast Asia (Curzon, 2001).

Ian Brown, Economic Change in South East Asia c. 1830-1980 (Kuala Lumpur:  Oxford Univeresity Press, 1997).

V.K. Aggarwal and C.E. Morrison (eds.), Asia-Pacific Crossroads: Regime Creation and the Future of APEC (St. Martin's , 1998).

Alasdair Bowie and Danny Unger, The Politics of Open Economies (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997).

Takatoshi Ito and Anne O. Krueger, Growth Theories in Light of the East Asian Experience (University of Chicago Press, 1995).

Tu Wei-Ming (ed.), Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity (Harvard University Press, 1996).

Michael Backman, Asian Eclipse (Singapore: Wiley, 1999).

II. China

Angus Maddison, Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run  (OECD Development Centre, 1998).

Liming Wang and John Davis, China's Grain Economy  (Ashgate, 2000).

Aiko Ikeo (ed.), Economic Development in Twentieth Century East Asia (Routledge, 1997).

Chu-sheng Liu, Red Capitalism in South China (UBC Press, 1997).

Mobo C. F. Gao, Gao Village (Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1999).

Margaret M. Pearson, China's New Business Elite (University of California Press, 1997).

Hill Gates, China's Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism (Cornell University Press, 1996).

Baizhu Chen et al, Financial Market Reform in China (Westview, 2000).
 
 

III. Japan

Magnus Bloemstrom, Byron Gangues, and Sumner LaCroix (eds.), Japan's New Economy (Oxford, 2001).

Matsuba Tsurumi (ed.), The Contemporary Japanese Economy: Between Civil Society and Corporation-Centered Society
    (Springer, 2001).

Kazuo Sato (ed.), The Transformation of the Japanese Economy (M.E. Sharpe,1999).

Chalmers Johnson, Japan: Who Governs? (W.W. Norton, 1995).

Marie Soderberg (ed.), The Business of Japanese Foreign Aid - Five Case Studies from Asia (Routledge, 1996).

Deborah J. Milly, Poverty, Equality, and Growth (Harvard Univ. Press, 1999).

Scott Callon, Divided Sun: MITI and the Breakdown of Japanese High-Tech Industrial Policy, 1975-1993 (Stanford University Press, 1995).

Maximilian J.B. Hall, Financial Reform in Japan: Causes and Consequences (Elgar, 1998).

Raj Aggarval (ed.), Restructuring Japanese Business for Growth (Kluwer, 1999).

Thomas F. Cargill, Michael M. Hutchison, and Takatoshi Ito, Financial Policy and Central Banking in Japan (MIT Press, 2000).

Thomas F. Cargill and Naoyuki Yoshino, The Postal Savings System and the Fiscal Investment and Loan Program in Japan (Oxford Univ. Press, 2001).

Takeo Hoshi and Hugh Patrick (eds.), Crisis and Change in the Japanese Financial System (Kluwer, 2000).

Michael Ashkenazi and John Clammer, Consumption and Material Culture in Contemporary Japan (Kegan Paul, 2000).

IV. Korea and Taiwan

Meredith Woo-Cummings, The Developmental State  (Cornell, 1999).

Moon-Gi Suh, Developmental Transformation in South Korea (Praeger, 1998).

Joungil Kim, Technology and Productivity: The Korean Way of Learning and Catching-up (MIT Press, 1999).

Brian Bridges, Korea After the Crash (Routledge, 2001).

Sung-hui Chwa, A New Paradigm for Korea's Economic Development (Palgrave, 2001).

Robert F. Emery, Korean Economic Reform: Before and Since the 1997 Crisis (Ashgate, 2001).

Samuel S. Kim, Korea's Globalization (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001).

Gary Klintworth, New Taiwan, New China (St. Martin's, 1995).

Ian A. Skoggard, The Indigenous Dynamic In Taiwan's Postwar Development (M. E. Sharpe, 1996).

Barry Naughton (ed.), The China Circle: Economics and Electronics in the PRC, Hong Kong, and Taiwan (Brookings, 1997).

Gustav Ranis et al, The Political Economy of Taiwan's Development into the 21st Century (Elgar, 1999).

Peter Y. C. Chow and Bates Gill (eds.), Weathering the Storm: Taiwan, Its Neighbors, and the Asian Financial Crisis
    (Brookings, 2000).
 

V. Savings, Investment and the Financial Markets
 

 Skully, M.T., and G.J. Viksnins, Financing East Asia's Success (Macmillan, 1987).

Masayoshi Tsurumi (ed.), Financial Big Bang in Asia (Ashgate, 2001).

Alexandre Lamfalussy, Financial Crises in Emerging Markets (Yale Univ. Press, 2000).

Hugh T. Patrick and Yung Chul Park (eds.), The Financial Development of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan (Oxford University Press, 1994).

Hal Hill (ed.), The Social Impact of the Asian Financial Crisis (Edward Elgar, 2001).

Takatoshi Ito and Anne O. Krueger (eds.), Financial Deregulation and Integration in East Asia (University of Chicago Press, 1996).

 Haggard, Stephan, The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis (Institute for International Economics, 2000).

Gordon De Brouwer, Financial Integration in East Asia (Cambridge, 1999).
 

VI. Recent Regional Trends

Gerald Tan, ASEAN Economic Development and Cooperation (Times Academic, 2000)..

Kunio, Yoshihara, The Nation and Economic Growth: The Philippines and Thailand (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1994).

Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker, Thailand's Crisis (Silkworm Books, 2000).

Robert F. Ash, Hong Kong in Transition (St. Martin's, 2000).

John Borrego, Alejandro Alvarez Bejar, and K.S. Jomo, Capital, the State and Late Industrialization (Westview Press, 1996).

Chong-yah Lim, Southeast Asia: The Long Road Ahead (World Scientific, 2001).

Alan M. Rugman and Gavin Boyd (eds.), Deepening Integration in the Pacific Economies (Elgar, 1999).

 Takatoshi Ito et al, Exchange Rate Movements and Their Impact on Trade and Investment In the APEC Region (IMF, 1996).

Ian G. Cook, Marcus A. Doel and Rex Li (eds.), Fragmented Asia: Regional Integration and National Disintegration in Pacific Asia (Avebury, 1996).

Ian Chalmers and Vedi R. Hadiz (eds.), The Politics of Economic Development in Indonesia (Routledge, 1997).

Vinad Ahuya et al, Everyone's Miracle? Revisiting Poverty and Inequality in East Asia (The World Bank, 1997).

Donald C. Hellman and Kenneth B. Pyle (eds.), From APEC to Xanadu (M. E. Sharpe, 1997).

George T. Yu (ed.), Asia's New World Order (NYU Press, 1997).

Peter Searle, The Riddle of Malaysian Capitalism (Allen & Unwin, 1999).

Uri Dadush, Dipak Dasgupta, and Mark Uzan (eds.), Private Capital Flows in the Age of Globalization  (Edward Elgar in cooperation with the World Bank, 2000).