How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World’s Most Dynamic Region Audiobook (Free)

In the 1980s and 1990s many in the West came to believe in the myth of an East-Asian economic miracle, with countries viewed as not only development prodigies but as a unified bloc, culturally and economically similar, and inexorably increasing. In How Asia Works, Joe Studwell distills intensive research into the economics of nine countries-Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, and China-into an available narrative that debunks Western misconceptions, shows what really occurred in Asia and why, and for once makes obvious why some countries have boomed while some have languished.

Amazing in scope, How Asia Works is vital listening for anybody interested in an area which will shape the future of the world.