Routledge Library Editions: Business and Economics in Asia
About the Book Series
This set examines a vast range of topics covering all experiences of business and economics from across Asia. Dealing with early banking systems in China; the industrialisation of Korea and Taiwan; the evolution of Japanese business practices; economic development; protectionist policies; industrial investment; trade; tourism; and a host of other topics, the books collected here form a vital reference resource across a wide subject area.
Vision in Japanese Entrepreneurship: The Evolution of a Security Enterprise
1st Edition
By H.T. Shimazaki
March 09, 2020
The service sector occupies a dominant position in the Japanese economy, yet few studies have looked at the way the industry developed. This book, first published in 1992, focuses on the growth and development of a major world security and communications corporation, SECOM. The success of the ...
Asian and United States Market Reactions to Trade Restrictions
1st Edition
By Qian Sun
February 07, 2020
The effect of US protectionist policy on stock prices of firms in the US and abroad is still an open question. This book, first published in 1996, investigates the effects of trade restrictions at the level of the individual firm, focusing on US, Taiwan and South Korea....
Report on Trade Conditions in China
1st Edition
By Harry R. Burrill, Raymond F. Crist
February 07, 2020
This study, first published in 1906, examines the position of the United States in the markets of the Chinese Empire and the steps necessary to insure a greater development of American commerce in the Far East....
State, Market and Peasant in Colonial South and Southeast Asia
1st Edition
By Michael Adas
February 07, 2020
The essays collected in this volume, first published in 1998, address the profound changes and disruptions wrought in peasant societies as a result of European colonial domination and the spread of the capitalist world economy from its European base. Detailed case study evidence is included in the ...
Studies in Chinese Price History
1st Edition
By Endymion Porter Wilkinson
February 07, 2020
This book, first published in 1980, uses a body of original documentary sources (some 5000 district grain price reports) to quantify, in the form of exchange and price zones, the relationships between the exchange markets and the grain markets of ninety district towns in Shensi, a province in China...
The Asiatic Mode of Production: Science and Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne M. Bailey, Josep R. Llobera
February 07, 2020
This wide-ranging collection of articles, first published in 1981, documents the development of the intellectual and political aspects of the concept of the Asiatic Mode of Production – a concept central to the Western understanding of non-capitalist societies....
The Economic Development of China
1st Edition
By Victor D. Lippit
February 07, 2020
This book, first published in 1987, studies the forces promoting underdevelopment in China prior to 1949 and the character of the development that has occurred since then. It presents a unified perspective for grasping the development process as a whole, for relating this to the class structure of ...
The Financial Markets of Hong Kong
1st Edition
By Andrew F. Freris
February 07, 2020
The financial markets of Hong Kong have a reputation for volatility, but careful analysis of past behaviour reveals consistent trends and coherent actions. This study, first published in 1991, at a time of uncertainty before Hong Kong’s transfer to China in 1997, analyses each of the financial ...
The Indonesian Economy Since 1965: A Case Study of Political Economy
1st Edition
By Ingrid Palmer
February 07, 2020
This book, first published in 1978, analyses the underlying structure of the Indonesian mass-based economy and its problems, and goes on to show how the hectic economic activity after 1965 failed to come to terms with the real needs of the people. It divides the new Indonesian economy into ...
Trade Strategy and the Asian-Pacific Region
1st Edition
Edited
By Hugh Corbet
February 07, 2020
This volume, first published in 1970, assesses the major reappraisal of US world commercial policy that took place in the 1960s – in particular the wishes for free trade treaties that would bring about the liberalisation of international trade....
United States Trade Relations with the Newly Industrializing Countries in the Pacific Basin
1st Edition
By Won Kwang Paik
February 07, 2020
With the resurgence of ‘new Protectionism’, international trade and trade relations are once again prime topics for study. This book, first published in 1997, examines in detail the different ways to answer the questions: What are the causes of trade relations? And specifically, what factors ...
Routledge Library Editions: Business and Economics in Asia
1st Edition
By Various
November 14, 2018
This set examines a vast range of topics covering all experiences of business and economics from across Asia. Dealing with early banking systems in China; the industrialisation of Korea and Taiwan; the evolution of Japanese business practices; economic development; protectionist policies; ...