Capital Ungoverned: Liberalizing Finance in Interventionist States - Couverture souple

Loriaux, Michael; Woo-Cumings, Meredith; Calder, Kent; Maxfield, Sylvia; Perez, Sofia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 080148281X ISBN 13 : 9780801482816

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Japan, South Korea, Mexico, France, and Spain once exercised significant control over the allocation of credit, and used that control to facilitate economic adjustment and industrial development. In the 1980s all that changed. Why and how these states dismantled their activist credit policies is the subject of Capital Ungoverned. The volume brings together five specialists in the economics and politics of these various states to assess the internal and global changes that prompted them to adopt financial liberalization.Comparison reveals the distinctive political and institutional logic that guided liberalization in each country--from the role of a newly dominant capitalist class in Korea to the replacement of state financing by private financing and self-financing in Japan, from the maneuvers of the banking establishment in Spain to attempts to attract foreign capital in Mexico. At the same time, these cases clarify the importance of international factors, in particular the shifts that occurred in U.S. policy as it sought to respond to the effects of uneven growth in the world economy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael Loriaux is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080148281X
• ISBN 13: 9780801482816
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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