Shaping Taiwan's Future

A cademic economists who prefer to discuss a country's problems of economic development independently of its political and institutional backgrounds and their changes assume that the mode of behavior of individual economic decision makers-whether governmental or private, whether as producers or as consumers, or in some other capacity-and the institutions in which they operate-are given and stable. They thus work only with purely economic variables, treating sociopolitical, institutional, and general behavioral matters as irrelevant. Unfortunately, I do not believe that Taiwan's economic future can realistically be discussed independently of its political framework and the value system and behavioral pattern of its citizens, although for obvious reasons we can consider only selectively the numerous factors in such a vast terrain. To highlight the interdependence between the narrowly economic and the many noneconomic elements that will shape Taiwan's future, I have deliberately chosen a broad title, Shaping Taiwan's Future

Political science · Asian Industrial and Economic Development