ABSTRACT
This book addresses this question: why have so many East Asian countries had such remarkably strong and sustained economic growth? The conventional-and clearly correct-answer is that they adopted unusually good policies. But why did they do so? Their record of development is so exceptional, not only in comparison to other developing regions but in world history, that it has recently attracted the attention of scholars from many fields. Because no single discipline has provided a persuasive explanation, this book draws on several in an effort to produce a more convincing explanation than has heretofore been advanced.
