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| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Pt. I | The Shift to the Modern World | 1 |
| 1 | Classical Social Theory | 3 |
| Pt. II | The Shift to the Modern World in Pacific Asia | 15 |
| 2 | Analysing the Process of the Shift to the Modern World in Pacific Asia | 17 |
| 3 | From Ancient Empires to Nineteenth-century Industrial-capitalism | 32 |
| 4 | The Shift to the Modern World: Reactions, Resistance and Empire | 54 |
| 5 | After the Pacific War: Decolonization, Nation-building and the Cold War | 87 |
| 6 | The Emergence of Pacific Asia | 110 |
| Pt. III | Changing Relationships in Contemporary Pacific Asia | 135 |
| 7 | The Region and the Global System | 137 |
| 8 | Changing Patterns of Relations between Japan, the USA and China | 154 |
| 9 | Contemporary Pacific Asia in the 1990s | 169 |
| Pt. IV | The Development Experience of Pacific Asia | 185 |
| 10 | The Particularity of the Historical Development Experience of Pacific Asia | 187 |
| 11 | The Pacific Asian Model I: Political-economic and Social-Institutional Processes | 199 |
| 12 | The Pacific Asian Model II: Cultural and Political-cultural Processes | 224 |
| Pt. V | Pacific Asia in the New Global System | 249 |
| 13 | Pacific Asia in the Twenty-first Century Global System | 251 |
| Bibliography | 260 | |
| Index | 267 |
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Eric Jensen
reviewed Pacific Asia on September 14, 2012
Pacific Asia
This book excels at story-telling and I really appreciated the description of the development of the Soviet economic system, however...
...I'm a numbers guy and I just can't stand the way that numbers get abused. Charts are just awful (how about just 3 data points for a line chart?). Things that should be charts are instead presented as tables with tens of columns and a plethora of footnotes. Or even worse, put into text, covering many pages full of lots of different numbers about different countries. Millions and billions get mixed up on more than one occasion.
...Lots comparisons of apples and pears, mixing up related numbers. How about comparing total public debt of some country with foreign debt burden of another (p 312)?
...Several facts are unclear. "Europe [represented] 46 percent of the world's total GDP, and 41 percent of the world's per capita GDP". How am I to interpret that? If you sum up the World's GDP per capita, isn't that the same as the world's GDP? It couldn't possibly be that the European number was 41 percent of the world's average? Or was 41 percent of the world's average contributed for by Europe?
...Several facts are just plain wrong:
-Mixing up hedge funds with their management companies. (p. 309) (Fact: those are separate entities.)
-Claiming that derivatives at large were invented by IBM and the World Bank in 1981. (p. 309) (Fact: This was the first formalized swap agreement, other forms derivative deals have have been made for thousands of years.)
-Claiming that Milton Friedman "believed that the undisturbed free market would solve all social problems" (p. 310) (Fact: He didn't, which is why he famously proposed a negative income tax for low earners.)
-Claiming Dow Jones to be "at the New York Stock Exchange", and quoting it in dollars. (p. 311) (Fact: it is an index independent of any exchange and is quoted in index points.)
If you like story-telling and don't mind skipping all the numbers than this is actually a decent book. But I just can't stand it. The high prevalence of errors in some areas also makes me wonder how accurate this book is overall.
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