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A provocative look at what has worked--and what hasn't--in East Asian economics. It explores how policies ridiculed by economists created titans in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, and are now behind the rise of China, while the best advice the West could offer sold its allies in south-east Asia down the economic river.

Economic development --- az 355.2 --- Azië --- economische politiek --- economie --- Japan --- Korea --- Taiwan --- China --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- economische politiek - Azië --- Asia --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Economic conditions --- Economic conditions. Economic development --- S10/0240 --- J4300.90 --- K9400.80 --- S31/0400 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--General works and economic history: since 1949 --- Japan: Economy and industry -- history -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Korea: Economy and industry -- history -- modern period, postwar period (1945- ) --- Indo China and South East Asia--South East Asia general (Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Burma, Papua New Guinea)

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40 or 50 families control the economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. Their interests range from banking to property, from shipping to sugar, from vice to gambling. 13 of the 50 richest families in the world are in South East Asia yet they are largely unknown outside confined business circles. Often this is because they control the press and television as well as everything else. How do they do it? What are their secrets? And is it good news or bad for the places where they operate? Joe Studwell explosively lifts the lid on a world of staggering secrecy and.

Businesspeople --- Billionaires --- Hong Kong (China) --- Southeast Asia --- Economic conditions.

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