ABSTRACT
In the period between, roughly, 1950 and 1990 several East Asian countries did much better, at least in terms of economic growth and income equality, than the larger Latin American countries, despite the early lead of the latter. Especially economists have tried to explain why this was the case. The question behind this book was whether sociologists and political scientists had anything to contribute to the explanation of this difference, and if so, what. The chapters, in other words, are exercises in the sociology or the political science of development. In this final chapter I attempt to draw some conclusions.
