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How Asia Works
This episode reveals the counter-intuitive, state-led strategies that truly powered East Asia's economic transformation, challenging common narratives of free-market miracles.
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“This episode reveals the counter-intuitive, state-led strategies that truly powered East Asia's economic transformation, challenging common narratives of free-market miracles.”
— Joe Studwell, How Asia Works
Economic Development, State Intervention, East Asian History, Industrial Policy
If you've ever felt that the standard narrative of economic development misses crucial, uncomfortable truths, this will clarify how nations truly build prosperity, and this will help you see what to do next.
Joe Studwell is a journalist and author known for his incisive, often contrarian, analyses of Asian economic development, drawing on decades of on-the-ground reporting to reveal the pragmatic, often brutal, choices behind its success.