Compressed development

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Compressed Development: Time and Timing in Economic and Social Development
Copyright
Praise for Compressed Development
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Compressed Development: An Introduction
	Organizing framework and interdisciplinary approach
	Late development and compressed development
	Some conceptual refinements
	Outline of the chapters
Part I: Conceptualizing Compressed Development
	1 Time Compression: From Stages to Simultaneity
		Introduction
		Industrialization
			‘Premature deindustrialization’?
			Stage compression within manufacturing
		The service sector and ‘out-of-sequence’ sectoral shifts
			‘Out-of-sequence’ sectoral shifts
			Sectoral blurring and persisting (or resurgent) dualism
			Lewis turning point
		Demographics and social compression
			Accelerated demographic transition in East Asia
			Social compression
		Concluding comments
	2 Eras States and Markets
		Introduction
		The state and economic development in historical perspective
			‘Early’ development (1780s–1840s)
			Early late development (1850s–1930s)
			Late-late development (1945–1980)
			Compressed development and neoliberalism (1990–)
		Markets, finance, and financialization
			Financialization
			Finance and financialization in developing countries
			State building and policy space compression
		Concluding comments
	3 Eras: Organizations and Technology
		Introduction
		Techno-economic periods and organizational paradigms
			A sequence of techno-economic periods
			Linking techno-economic periods to industry and spatial organization
		The crisis of Fordism and the rise of the network model
			Outsourcing
			Offshoring and the rise of global value chains
			Developing countries and global suppliers
			The crisis of the network model and its rebalancing
		A ‘new’ digital economy?
		Concluding comments
Part 2: Experiences of Compressed Development
	4 China’s and Japan’s Divergent Institutions
		Introduction
		Japan as a late developer
		China as a compressed developer
		Education and skills
			Japan: education for catch-up
			China’s compression in education
		Concluding comments
	5 Varieties of Compressed Development
		Introduction
			Country roles in GVCs
			Backward and forward GVC participation
		China’s emergence as the world’s most successful compressed developer
			China’s leadership in electronic hardware exports
			The case of mobile phones: escaping low-value-added traps?
			China’s policy response to thin industrialization: intensified techno-nationalism
		Other country experiences with compressed development
			Thin industrialization, Brazilian style
			India’s varied roles in GVCs
			Taiwan, the first true compressed developer
		Implications for industrial policy
			Strategic external fit and adaptive industrial policy
		Concluding comments
	6 Employment, Skills, and Upgrading
		Introduction
		The ‘middle-income-trap’ debate
		Employment relations and ‘standard employment’
			The rise of ‘standard’ employment
			The deterioration of ‘standard’ employment
		Informal and nonregular employment in the era of compressed development
			Nonstandard employment in China
			Skills upgrading in GVCs?
		Politics of dualism and upgrading
		Concluding comments
	7 Social Policy: Education as a New Frontier of Compression
		Introduction
		Double challenges in health and education
			Double burden of disease
			Double challenge of education
		Era’ influences: global alignment of education policy and global testing culture
			Higher education and lifelong learning for the global knowledge economy
		Actor proliferation and centrifugal forces
		Chinese education challenges revisited
			Basic education in China: education for development
			Advanced education: lifelong learning for the global knowledge economy
		Policy stretch and policy integration
		Concluding comments
Part 3: Navigating Compressed Development
	8 The Adaptive (Developmental) State
		Introduction
		The developmental state: dismantled or transformed?
			The ‘demise’ view
			The ‘transformation’ view
		Multilevel governance and local developmentalism: the case of China
			Opening the door—carefully
			China’s multilevel governance and adaptive experimentation
			State–society relations and social corporatism
		‘Fast cities’
		Bringing civil society in
		Concluding comments
	9 Are We All Compressed Developers?
		Introduction
		Co-evolution and compression: the United States and Japan
			The United States: the ‘new model’ under pressure
			Japan: between the United States and emerging Asia, and between paradigms
		The digital economy: winner take most, or lowering barriers to innovation?
			The economic geography of manufacturing and innovation in the digital economy
			Scenarios for less-developed countries in the digital economy
			Crisis and rebalancing?
		States, markets, and geopolitics
			New geopolitical tensions
		Conclusion: on convergence and compression
	Afterword: The End of Compressed Development?
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