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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherCornell University Press
ISBN-139780801431760
eBay Product ID (ePID)96184316
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
Publication NameCapital Ungoverned: Liberalizing Finance in Interventionist States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEconomics, Government, Finance
Publication Year1997
TypeTextbook
AuthorSofia Perez, Sylvia Maxfield, Meredith Woo-Cumings, Michael Loriaux, Kent Calder
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height216 mm
Item Weight28 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorMichael Loriaux, Sylvia Maxfield, Sofia Perez, Kent Calder, Meredith Woo-Cumings