Welfare and Inequality in Marketizing East Asia 1st ed. 2018 Edition

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1137541067
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎9781137541062
• Author: Jonathan D. London

The world-scale expansion of markets and market relations ranks among the most transformative developments of our times. We can refer to this process by way of a generic if inelegant term – marketization. This book explores how processes of marketization have registered across East Asia’s diverse social landscape and its implications for patterns of welfare and inequality. While there has been great interest in East Asia’s economic rise, treatments of welfare and inequality in the region have been largely relegated to specialist literatures. Proceeding from a synthetic critique of political economy, this book places welfare and inequality at the center of a more encompassing comparative approach to political economy that construes countries as dynamic, globally embedded social orders defined and animated by distinctive social relational and institutional features.

Table of contents:

1. Part I. Welfare, Inequality, and Marketization
2. 1. Great Transformations
3. 2. Welfare, Inequality, and Marketization
4. 3. Welfare, Growth, and Governance
5. 4. Marketization, Protection, and Inclusive Growth: A New Synthesis
6. 5. Rethinking Welfare Regimes
7. Part II. Social Orders and Marketization in Process
8. 6. Welfare, Inequality, and Varieties of Social Order
9. 7. Developmental Welfare States?: Korea and Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore
10. 8. Welfare, Clientelism, and Inequality: Malaysia and Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines
11. 9. Welfare and Inequality in Market Leninism: China and Vietnam
12. 10. Afterword: Welfare and Inequality in Marketizing East Asia

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