Alice H Amsden
Biographic Data
| ID | 142215 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alice H Amsden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alice H |
| FAMILY NAME | Amsden |
| SIGNATURE | AMSDEN A H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 905 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
International Firms and Labour in Kenya 1945-1970
Part 1 The historical setting - 1945-56: the colonial office a protective labour code minimum wages trade unions the new look of employers. Part 2 The intermediate years - 1956-63: blueprint for modernity. Part 3 The years of independence: the employer movement trade unions, politics and African government legislation and the status quo collective bargaining
The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Partie IV, chapitre 11
Role of Elites in Economic Development
Say's Law, Poverty Persistence, and Employment Neglect
Grass roots methods of poverty alleviation will fail unless jobs are created or stimulated by governments (whether central or local). In the presence of high unemployment at all levels, improving the capabilities of job seekers (making them better fed and housed and educated) will only lead to more unemployment and not to more paid employment or self‐employment above the subsistence level (call this the ‘Kerala Effect’). To believe that improving…
Import substitution in high-tech industries
Prebisch "lives" in Asia because leading Asian governments still actively promote import substitution of high-tech parts and components. But they use promotional measures other than tariff protection to do so. Given performance standards, they have been highly successful. Now Latin America is behind Asian latecomers because it missed becoming a player in the information technology revolution. But Latin America can still learn from Asia rather tha…
Beyond Late Development
A study of how latecomers catch up in high-tech industries and modern services, based on an in-depth analysis of Taiwan's premier enterprises and government policies. In this book Alice Amsden and Wan-wen Chu cover new ground by analyzing the phenomenon of high-end catch-up. They study how leading firms from the most advanced latecomer countries like Taiwan have increased their market share in mature high-tech industries and services. The profits…
"The Rise of "The Rest
The Rise of “The Rest”
After a century of struggle, a dozen non‐Western countries with pre‐Second World War manufacturing experience succeeded in entering the orbit of modem industry. The rise of ‘the rest’ was historically unprecedented. For the first time, countries without the competitive asset of proprietary, pioneering technology became economic powers. How industrialization among these prime latecomers succeeded, why it followed a novel path, and what some countr…
Models of Capitalism
Models of Capitalism
Preface. 1. Capitalist Models and Economic Growth. Part I: Capitalist Models: The Arguments: . 2. Liberal Capitalism: Retreat and Revival?. 3. 'Trust-Based' Capitalism: Revival and Retreat. Part II: Capitalist Models: The Evidence: . 4. The Power of Organized Labour. 5. Education, Training and Culture. 6. The Organization of Capital in the Pursuit of Growth. 7. The State as an Element in the Growth Equation. Part III: Conclusion: . 8. Capitalist …
The Bark Is Worse Than the Bite
In spite of (or because of?) the successful industrialization of leading latecomers under a set of institutions that had deviated from free-market norms, by the 1990s the global economic order had formed around rather orthodox neoliberal principles. At close examination, however, the new rules of the World Trade Organization, a symbol of neoliberalism, are flexible and allow countries to continue to promote their industries under the banner of pr…
The Market Meets Its Match
Manufacturing output, employment and real wages in the 1980s
During the 1980s most developing countries experienced sharp declines in manufacturing output and real wages, whilst their manufacturing sectors were supposedly ‘restructured’ or made more competitive by having to confront market forces. This article examines the extent to which macroeconomic adjustment and industrial restructuring policies succeeded in achieving their objectives
China's macroeconomy, environment, and alternative transition model
The Market Meets Its Match
Preface From Pseudo-Socialism to Pseudo-Capitalism Transition Macroeconomics The Black Box of State-Owned Enterprises Overloading the Market Mechanism Pseudo-Privatization and the World Bank Enterprise and the State Challenges Facing the State Reconstructing the State Economy, Society, and the State Notes References Index
Making Capitalism
The Rush to Development
La industrialización tardía en perspectiva histórica
Why isn't the whole world experimenting with the East Asian model to develop
South Korea's 1980s financial reforms
The Switch in Industrial Leadership
Korea has diversified from less to more complex diversified industries in a nonlinear fashion. This chapter suggests that cotton spinning and weaving, South Korea's leading sector in terms of production volume, did not serve as the springboard for further (late) industrialization in any organizational sense. Insofar as the diversified business (industrial) group acted as the agent of expansion, it had its origins in the government's more manageme…
The Triumph of Steel
This chapter examines the hypothesis that climbing the ladder of comparative advantage is a matter of creating competitiveness, usually with government assistance, rather than stepping into it. The evidence comes from South Korea's integrated iron‐ and steel‐maker (the Pohang Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., POSCO), which is the centerpiece of basic industry and a public enterprise. The chapter discusses POSCO's founding in 1968; its profitability and su…
The Paradox of “Unlimited” Labor and Rising Wages
The forces behind the operation of the labor market and real wage increases in South Korea are examined. It is argued that in industries in which the technology transfer problem was fairly complicated and in which Korea lacked experience, workers were paid relatively high wages, not because of a shortage of particular skills, but in order to induce them to exercise their intelligence and make imported technology work. The wage rate in Korea was d…
Industrializing through Learning
This is a book not only about South Korea and how it came to be a major factor in the world economy, but also about the industrialization process that South Korea followed. This process, which will be referred to as late industrialization, has profound implications for a range of other countries that are also struggling to compete in the world of international business. South Korea's success in this struggle can thus be seen both as a fascinating…
The World's Largest Shipbuilder
This chapter, within the context of the shipbuilding industry in the acutely competitive decade of the 1970s, examines the hypothesis that the diversified business (industrial) group provides a multitude of capabilities and a protective cover to latecomers wishing to enter world trade. The whole chapter is devoted to Hyundai Heavy Industries of South Korea, a subsidiary of the Hyundai Group, which began building its first ship (a very large crude…
Asia's Next Giant
South Korea has been quietly growing into a major economic force that is even challenging some Japanese industries. This book examines South Korean economic growth as an example of “late industrialization,” a process in which a nation's industries learn from earlier innovator nations rather than innovate themselves. Discussing state intervention, shop‐floor management, and big business groups, the reasons are explored for South Korea's phenomenal…
The Logic of the Developmental State
Taiwan's Economic History
Taiwan distinguishes itself as one of the few non-socialist economies since Japan to rise from the grossest poverty and to enter the world of the developed. As if this were not enough, and if the figures are correct, income distribution has also been far less inequitable in Taiwan than in other poor economies. Both phenomena together have earned Taiwan the title of economic miracle. In seeking an explanation for these phenomena, which are rather …
Why isn't the whole world experimenting with the East Asian model to develop
The Bark Is Worse Than the Bite
In spite of (or because of?) the successful industrialization of leading latecomers under a set of institutions that had deviated from free-market norms, by the 1990s the global economic order had formed around rather orthodox neoliberal principles. At close examination, however, the new rules of the World Trade Organization, a symbol of neoliberalism, are flexible and allow countries to continue to promote their industries under the banner of pr…
Big business and urban congestion in Taiwan
The division of labour is limited by the type of market
The direction of trade — past and present — and the ‘learning effects’ of exports to different directions
International Firms and Labour in Kenya 1945-1970
Part 1 The historical setting - 1945-56: the colonial office a protective labour code minimum wages trade unions the new look of employers. Part 2 The intermediate years - 1956-63: blueprint for modernity. Part 3 The years of independence: the employer movement trade unions, politics and African government legislation and the status quo collective bargaining
Say's Law, Poverty Persistence, and Employment Neglect
Grass roots methods of poverty alleviation will fail unless jobs are created or stimulated by governments (whether central or local). In the presence of high unemployment at all levels, improving the capabilities of job seekers (making them better fed and housed and educated) will only lead to more unemployment and not to more paid employment or self‐employment above the subsistence level (call this the ‘Kerala Effect’). To believe that improving…
South Korea's 1980s financial reforms
Import substitution in high-tech industries
Prebisch "lives" in Asia because leading Asian governments still actively promote import substitution of high-tech parts and components. But they use promotional measures other than tariff protection to do so. Given performance standards, they have been highly successful. Now Latin America is behind Asian latecomers because it missed becoming a player in the information technology revolution. But Latin America can still learn from Asia rather tha…
Korea's competitive edge
Models of Capitalism
Preface. 1. Capitalist Models and Economic Growth. Part I: Capitalist Models: The Arguments: . 2. Liberal Capitalism: Retreat and Revival?. 3. 'Trust-Based' Capitalism: Revival and Retreat. Part II: Capitalist Models: The Evidence: . 4. The Power of Organized Labour. 5. Education, Training and Culture. 6. The Organization of Capital in the Pursuit of Growth. 7. The State as an Element in the Growth Equation. Part III: Conclusion: . 8. Capitalist …
Third World Industrialization
From the 1960s to the 1970s, industrial output in almost all Third World countries grew rapidly. Growth was especially fast in a subset of developing countries that can be called ‘late industrializers’, countries which industrialized without the competitive asset of being able to monopolize an original technology. Late
Trade in Manufactures Between Developing Countries
Journal Article Trade in Manufactures Between Developing Countries Get access Alice H. Amsden Alice H. Amsden University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 86, Issue 344, 1 December 1976, Pages 778–790, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231452 Published: 01 December 1976
The Market Meets Its Match
La industrialización tardía en perspectiva histórica
Models of Capitalism
The Rush to Development
Republic of Korea
Taiwan
The Economics of Women and Work
Kaldor's ‘the military in development’ — a comment
Trade in Manufactures Between Developing Countries
Journal Article Trade in Manufactures Between Developing Countries Get access Alice H. Amsden Alice H. Amsden University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 86, Issue 344, 1 December 1976, Pages 778–790, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231452 Published: 01 December 1976
Kaldor's ‘the military in development’ — a comment
The division of labour is limited by the type of market
Taiwan's Economic History
Taiwan distinguishes itself as one of the few non-socialist economies since Japan to rise from the grossest poverty and to enter the world of the developed. As if this were not enough, and if the figures are correct, income distribution has also been far less inequitable in Taiwan than in other poor economies. Both phenomena together have earned Taiwan the title of economic miracle. In seeking an explanation for these phenomena, which are rather …
The Industry Characteristics of Intra. Third World Trade in Manufactures
The Economics of Women and Work
Out To Work
Journal Article Out To Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States, by Alice Kessler-Harris Get access Out To Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States by Alice Kessler-Harris. New York, Oxford University Press, 1982. 400 pp. $19.95. Alice H. Amsden Alice H. Amsden Barnard College, Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 98, Is…
Republic of Korea
Taiwan
The State and Taiwan's Economic Development
Two features of Taiwan's post–World War II history are striking. First, it is one of the few nonsocialist economies since Japan to rise from the grossest poverty and to enter the world of the "developed." Second, the state in Taiwan has played a leading role in the process of capital accumulation. It has positioned itself to prevail on key economic parameters such as the size of the surplus extracted from agriculture and the rate of profit in ind…
Korea's competitive edge
The direction of trade — past and present — and the ‘learning effects’ of exports to different directions
O Estado e o desenvolvimento econômico de Formosa
Este é um estudo sobre o papel do Estado no desenvolvimento da República da China após a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Visa compreender como o Estado acelerou a taxa de acumulação de capital, o papel das exportações e a própria natureza do Estado sob a ditadura que governou o país por décadas
Taiwan's Economic History
Taiwan distinguishes itself as one of the few non-socialist economies since Japan to rise from the grossest poverty and to enter the world of the developed. As if this were not enough, and if the figures are correct, income distribution has also been far less inequitable in Taiwan than in other poor &dquo;market economies.&dquo; Both phenomena together have earned Taiwan the title of &dquo;eco-nomic miracle.&dquo; In seeking an explanation for th…
The Political Economy of the New Asian Industrialism. Frederic C. Deyo
Third World Industrialization
From the 1960s to the 1970s, industrial output in almost all Third World countries grew rapidly. Growth was especially fast in a subset of developing countries that can be called ‘late industrializers’, countries which industrialized without the competitive asset of being able to monopolize an original technology. Late
Big business and urban congestion in Taiwan
Taiwan from an International Perspective
(1991). Taiwan from an International Perspective. Asian Affairs: An American Review: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 81-97
The Logic of the Developmental State
The Switch in Industrial Leadership
Korea has diversified from less to more complex diversified industries in a nonlinear fashion. This chapter suggests that cotton spinning and weaving, South Korea's leading sector in terms of production volume, did not serve as the springboard for further (late) industrialization in any organizational sense. Insofar as the diversified business (industrial) group acted as the agent of expansion, it had its origins in the government's more manageme…
The Triumph of Steel
This chapter examines the hypothesis that climbing the ladder of comparative advantage is a matter of creating competitiveness, usually with government assistance, rather than stepping into it. The evidence comes from South Korea's integrated iron‐ and steel‐maker (the Pohang Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., POSCO), which is the centerpiece of basic industry and a public enterprise. The chapter discusses POSCO's founding in 1968; its profitability and su…
The Paradox of “Unlimited” Labor and Rising Wages
The forces behind the operation of the labor market and real wage increases in South Korea are examined. It is argued that in industries in which the technology transfer problem was fairly complicated and in which Korea lacked experience, workers were paid relatively high wages, not because of a shortage of particular skills, but in order to induce them to exercise their intelligence and make imported technology work. The wage rate in Korea was d…
Industrializing through Learning
This is a book not only about South Korea and how it came to be a major factor in the world economy, but also about the industrialization process that South Korea followed. This process, which will be referred to as late industrialization, has profound implications for a range of other countries that are also struggling to compete in the world of international business. South Korea's success in this struggle can thus be seen both as a fascinating…
The World's Largest Shipbuilder
This chapter, within the context of the shipbuilding industry in the acutely competitive decade of the 1970s, examines the hypothesis that the diversified business (industrial) group provides a multitude of capabilities and a protective cover to latecomers wishing to enter world trade. The whole chapter is devoted to Hyundai Heavy Industries of South Korea, a subsidiary of the Hyundai Group, which began building its first ship (a very large crude…
Getting Relative Prices “Wrong”
According to accepted economic theory, industrial expansion can be explained by one of two grand approaches, market oriented or institutional, and success is usually interpreted as a validation of market principles and of the institutions financially supporting them. In South Korea, in contrast, the government made most of the pivotal investment decisions, the firms involved operated with an extraordinary degree of market control, protected from …
Economics (38 works) · Political science (27 works) · Asian Industrial and Economic Development (20 works) · Business (19 works) · Market economy (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Economy (14 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Development economics (12 works) · Economic growth (11 works)