| Description |
1 online resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Theory and research methodology -- From roving to stationary bandit : a history -- Decentralization, FDI, and provincial governance -- Proximity and contestation -- Race to the bottom vs. harmony of interest -- Capital-labor relations and the harmony of interest -- Central-local harmony and political control -- Lessons for theory and practice. |
| Summary |
"This book is, in essence, about incentives: the incentives for competing societal interest groups to cooperate with each other to benefit from a growing economic pie, rather than fighting over a bigger share of a smaller one. This is the conundrum of economic development. If elite interest groups have both incentive and ability to allocate resources toward themselves, and if such rent seeking causes a decline in economic inefficiency, how can economies ever grow? The book illuminates the mechanisms by which in one of the world's recent economic success stories-- Vietnam's rapid industrialization and passage into the middle-income category--the interest in cooperating to grow the economy overrode the elites' instinct to allocate resources through the use of political power. The book shows how the need to provide positive conditions for international investment altered pay-off structures and pushed the all-powerful Communist Party of Vietnam to engage in bargaining with provincial officials; provincial officials with international investors; and finally all coercive elites even with the working classes. It describes the emergence of a harmony of interest among societal groups in which each group benefits from a growing economy, and no one group can monopolize the benefits of growth without hurting itself. The Vietnam case validates Nobel-Prize winning economist Mancur Olson's proposition that elite predation can only be kept in check when the elite itself suffers from the economic decline it causes at least as much as it gains from the rents it collects."--Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Economic development -- Vietnam.
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Vietnam -- Economic policy -- 1975-
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Investments, Foreign -- Vietnam.
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Rent seeking -- Vietnam.
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Decentralization in government -- Economic aspects -- Vietnam.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
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Decentralization in government -- Economic aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00888953
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Economic development. (OCoLC)fst00901785
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Economic policy. (OCoLC)fst00902025
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Investments, Foreign. (OCoLC)fst00978370
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Rent seeking. (OCoLC)fst01745441
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Vietnam. (OCoLC)fst01204778
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1975
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jandl, Thomas, 1965- Vietnam in the global economy 9780739177860 (DLC) 2013028456 (OCoLC)857234190 |
| ISBN |
9780739177877 (electronic bk.) |
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0739177877 (electronic bk.) |
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