DISCIPLINE AND DEVELOPMENT by Diane E. Davis ( 9780521807487 )

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Title:

DISCIPLINE AND DEVELOPMENT
MIDDLE CLASSES AND PROSPERITY IN EAST ASIA AND LATIN AMERICA

By:

Diane E. Davis

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0521807484

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

22 March, 2004

Pages:

436

Description:

An examination of South Korea's and Taiwan's economic successes and Argentina's and Mexico's relative 'failures' through their rural middle classes.

Synopsis:

Perhaps the most commonly held assumption in the field of development is that middle classes are the bounty of economic modernization and growth. As countries gradually transcend their agrarian past and become urbanized and industrialized, so the logic goes, middle classes emerge and gain in number, complexity, cultural influence, social prominence, and political authority. Yet this is only half the story. Middle classes shape industrial and economic development, they are not merely its product; the particular ways in which middle classes shape themselves - and the ways historical conditions shape them - influence development trajectories in multiple ways. This is the story of South Korea's and Taiwan's economic successes and Argentina's and Mexico's relative 'failures' through an examination of their rural middle classes and disciplinary capacities. Can disciplining continue in a context where globalization squeezes middle classes and frees capitalists from the state and social contracts in which they have been embedded?

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Cambridge University Press

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