Policy and Economic Performance in Divided Korea during the Cold War Era: 1945-91 by Nicholas Eberstadt - 2010-03-16

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Aei Press, 2010-03-16. Paperback. New.

Paperback / softback. New. The Korean peninsula during the Cold War provided a cruel but historically unparalleled real-world "experiment" in the relationship between polity and material advance: an ethnically and culturally homogenous nation was, in 1945, suddenly divided by an arbitrary boundary line and then subjected to two radically different and adversarial political economies for successive decades on end. Assessing the competition between the North and South Korean economies from partition to the end of the Soviet era, Nicholas Eberstadt argues that the storyline is not quite as simple as the now-prevailing narrative suggests (that centrally-planned economies are doomed to fail against market-oriented alternatives). Rather, he suggests, the race for material progress was just that: a race, the results of which were far from preordained at the outset. In Policy and Economic Performance in Divided Korea during the Cold War Era: 1945-91, Eberstadt presents an impressive… Read More

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Aei Pr, 2010. Paperback. New. 340 pages. 8.70x5.90x1.20 inches.