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Revisiting The East Asian Miracle: Labor Regimes, Profitability And Accumulation, Zhongjin Li
Revisiting The East Asian Miracle: Labor Regimes, Profitability And Accumulation, Zhongjin Li
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation project revisits the widely-acclaimed East Asian miracle from a political economy perspective focusing on class dynamics and profit regimes. After reviewing the historically comparative context of East Asian development, and the economic literature before and after the 1997 crisis, I provide an alternative analytical framework to the dominant market-oriented versus state-interventionist approaches in exploring the long-term trajectories of transformation in the East Asian regimes of capital accumulation. More specifically, my dissertation focuses on two analytical questions in the East Asian development context: the transformation of labor regimes and the evolving class dynamics, and the dynamics of profit rates …