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This book debunks the rosy success story about South Korean economic development by analyzing how the state and businesses formed an alliance, while excluding labor, in order to attain economic development, and how these three entities were transformed in the process. The author analyzes the paradox of South Korean development from 1960 to 1990 -- a period during which the country experienced dramatic social, economic, and political changes. By reexamining South Korea's development through the collaboration and conflict between the state and the chaebol (big businesses), she illuminates the inherent limitations and problems of the developmental state.
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"Among the many books that have been written on Korea's "economic miracle", none does a better job than this one of chronicling the growth of the giant industrial conglomerates that have come to dominate the Korean economy and setting out the evolution of their relations to the state. Eun Mee Kim harnesses an unusually rich set of data to a nicely nuanced analysis of the changing structure of business-state relations in Korea. Anyone trying to understand the dynamics of East Asian industrialization needs to read Big Business, Strong State". -- Peter Evans, University of California, Berkeley
"Big Business, Strong State is an important book on an important subject. Based on careful empirical research, Eun Mee Kim analyzes the changing roles of state and business conglomerates in the dramatic development of South Korea that within a generation turned one of the world's poorest countries into an industrial society. Kim illuminates the Korean storyby discussing it in a comparative context, and she identifies critical unresolved issues in Korea's future". -- Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Asa Messer Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Development at Brown University
/ AUS DEM INHALT: / / / 1 The Paradox of South Korean Development
Studies on South Korean Development
Toward an Analysis of State and Business in a Dialectical Process of Social Change
Organization of the Book
Part I Institutions of Development
2 The State
The Developmental State and the Authoritarian State
Transformation of the Developmental State
Concluding Remarks
3 The Chaebol (Business Conglomerate)
Industrial Organization
The Historical and Structural Context of the Chaebol
Concluding Remarks
Part II History of Development
4 The State and the Remaking of the Chaebol (1960s)
Park Chung Hee and the Military Coup of May 16, 1961
The Relationship between the State and the Private Sector
Changes in the Private Sector: The Remaking of the Chaebol
Concluding Remarks
5 The State-Chaebol Alliance for Development(1970s)
The State's Drive for Heavy and Chemical Industrialization
The Concentration of Wealth and the Growth of the Chaebol
Concluding Remarks
6 The Decline of the Developmental State and the Rise of the Chaebol (1980s)
The Transition of a Comprehensive Developmental State to a Limited Developmental State
The Growth of the Chaebol
The Growth of Labor and Labor Movements
Concluding Remarks
7 Collusion and Conflict: The State and Business in the Development Process
The South Korean Model of Economic Development
South Korea's Lessons for Third World Nations
Future Prospects of South Korea
Appendix: Romanization of Korean Words
Notes
References
Index