Taiwan's Economic History

A Case of Etatisme and a Challenge to Dependency Theory

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ID20059977
AuthorsAlice H Amsden (corresponding author)
Year1988
Pages142-175
Publication date1988-12-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueToward a Political Economy of Development (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/9780520314054-008
OpenAlexW4248105069
ISBN9780520314054
LanguageEN
Citations received12

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 these phenomena, which are rather miraculous in the context of continued underdevelopment in the rest of the Third World, we have come face to face with two schools of thought: neoclassical and dependency theory. The former, to generalize somewhat, sees the explanation for the Taiwan &dquo;miracle&dquo; in the application of free market principles. The latter ignores Taiwan altogether, probably because it sees it as a &dquo;special case&dquo; undeserving attention

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