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This book is about a particular explanation of East Asian industrializa¬ tion, known as the theory of the developmental state. "Developmental state" is a shorthand for the seamless web of political, bureaucratic, and moneyed influences that structures economic life in capitalist Northeast Asia. This state form originated as the region's idiosyncratic response to a world dominated by the West, and despite many problems associated with it, such as corruption and inefficiency, today state policies continue to be justified by the need to hone the nation's economic competitiveness and by a residual nationalism (even in the contemporary context of global¬ ization). In this chapter, I want to examine the theory of the developmental state through the prism of Chalmers Johnson's 1982 account: MITI and the Japanese Miracle.' Johnson, basing his observation on the modal eco¬ nomic planning bureaucracy in Japan, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), constructed a WeberianTdeal type of an in¬ terventionist state that was neither socialist (described as a "plan-1. Chalmers Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 7925-/975 (Stanford: Stanford Un

Author

Meredith Woo-Cumings

Published

2019

Language

EN