Making Money (eBook)

How Taiwanese Industrialists Embraced the Global Economy

Kao Cheng-shu, Gary G. Hamilton (Autoren)

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2017
320 Seiten
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-0445-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Thirty years of research. Over 800 interviews. One untold story. Today, Taiwan is part of the increasingly "borderless" East Asian economy. But, in the 1950s, it was just beginning to industrialize. Making Money is the tale of the manufacturing demand generated in the West and the Taiwanese businesspeople who stepped up to fill it.

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Beginning in the 1950s, Taiwan rapidly industrialized, becoming a tributary to an increasingly "e;borderless"e; East Asian economy. And though President Trump has called for the end of "e;American carnage"e;-the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs-domestic retailers and merchandisers still willingly ship production overseas, primarily to Taiwan. In this book, Gary G. Hamilton and Cheng-shu Kao show how Taiwanese businesspeople have played a tremendous, unsung role in their nation's continuing ascent. From prominent names like Pou Chen and Hon Hai to the owners of small and midsize firms, Taiwan's contract manufacturers have become the world's most sophisticated suppliers of consumer products the world over. Drawing on over 30 years of research and more than 800 interviews, Hamilton and Kao tell these industrialists' stories.The picture that emerges is one of agile neo-capitalists, caught in the flux of a rapidly changing landscape, who tirelessly endeavor to profit on it. Making Money reveals its subjects to be at once producers of economic globalization and its byproducts. While the future of Taiwanese business is uncertain, the durability of demand-led capitalism is not.

Autor

Gary G. Hamilton is Professor Emeritus in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Cheng-shu Kao is Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Feng Chia University and Honorary Professor in the Department of Sociology at Tunghai University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.12.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Emerging Frontiers in the Global Economy
• Reihe/Serie: Emerging Frontiers in the Global Economy
• Zusatzinfo: 2 maps
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Capitalism • Chinese economy • contract manufacturing • demand-led capitalism • Global Economy • merchandisers • Retailers • Retail Revolution • Taiwan • Taiwanese industrialists
• ISBN-10: 1-5036-0445-4 / 1503604454
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5036-0445-2 / 9781503604452