Government, Business, and Entrepreneurship in Economic Development: The Korean Case
ISBN: 9781684172245
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Asia Center
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Korea -- Economic policy; Korea -- Economic conditions -- 1945–; Industry and state -- Korea -- History; Entrepreneur;

A study of Korea's economic growth and modernization, beginning with Yi Dynasty entepreneurship and extending through the colonial and post-war periods. Separate chapters are devoted to the colonial heritage, the government economic decision-making process; implementation of government policy; public enterprise; private entrepreneurship, including supply of labor and capital and sources of expansion; and private economic power. Case studies of small and medium enterpises and also of chaebol are presnted. Over 70 tables and figures are included.


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