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Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading asian godfathers. Description asian godfathers by joe studwell this investigative journalists book is an explosive work that lifts the curtain on a world of staggering secrecy and hypocrisy to revealfor the first timewho the leaders of one of the worlds most important and tumultuous markets really are, how they got to the top, and how they keep themselves there. Money and power in hong kong and southeast asia, 2007, etc. In asian godfathers, he tells the story through asias business tycoons. As joe a founding partner of our jv company dragonomics remarks, this is. Previous books include asian godfathers 9781861977014 which sold over 16,000 copies for profile and the china dream 9781847656933. Named by bill gates as one of his top 5 books of the year an economist best book of the year in the 1980s and 1990s many in the west came to believe in the myth of an east asian economic miracle, with countries seen as not just development prodigies but as a unified bloc, culturally and economically similar, and inexorably on the rise. Money and power in hong kong and south east asia main by studwell, joe isbn.
Your book was great and im searching the bookshops now, here in manila, for asian godfathers. That is the question joe studwell, author of the acclaimed book the china dream, answers in this incisive behindthescenes exploration of the outsize figures behind the veil. Rich asians, and know a little of economics and finance, you have something of a moral responsibility to read this book. Aug 06, 20 rather than lionizing his subjects as entrepreneurs or innovators, studwell undermines many of the myths, suggesting that the godfathers of asian business contribute little to economic growth. If youre looking for a free download links of asian godfathers. How asia works is a mustread book that packs powerful insights about the worlds most misunderstood continent. Studwells asian godfathers challenges the mythos surrounding li ka shing, robert kuok and a group of about 50 others, the economic kings of southeast asia he calls godfathers. Disruptor joe studwell, cofounder of the china economic. Joe studwell named by bill gates as one of his top 5 books of the year an economist best book of the year in the 1980s and 1990s many in the west came to believe in the myth of an east asian economic miracle, with countries seen as not just development prodigi. A complex mythology surrounds these billionaires, but in asian godfathers, joe studwell finds that the facts are even more remarkable than the myths. Ebook asian godfathers as pdf download portable document. In the days before and after my recent trip to singapore, a good deal of my downtime was spent poring over joe studwells asian godfathers, a book that dutifully takes up the onerous task of explaining the rise of southeast asia looking strictly at indonesia, singapore, malaysia, thailand and the philippines and hong kongs ethnic chinese tycoons and how.
Asian godfathers is an explosive book that lifts the curtain on a world of staggering secrecy and hypocrisy and revealsfor the first timewho the leaders of one of the worlds most important and tumultuous markets really are. Get the key points from this book in less than 10 minutes. Korea and in singapore and south and southeast asian countries. He has very little to say in how asia worksabout how any of asia works today again, he is an economic historian. Access a free summary of asian godfathers, by joe studwell and 20,000 other business, leadership and nonfiction books on getabstract. Aug 14, 2008 asian godfathers by joe studwell, 97818619771, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. The book i had in mind was a simpering and flattering account of asian godfathers by someone else.
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This is a book about how rapid economic transformation is, or is not, achieved. Be the first to ask a question about asian godfathers. Joe studwell named by bill gates as one of his top 5 books of the year an economist best book of the year in the 1980s and 1990s many in the west came to believe in the myth of an eastasian economic miracle, with countries seen as not just development prodigi. Also by joe studwell the china dream asian godfathers 3. Studwell skewers myths with equal passion and panache. The first book to offer an asiawide deconstruction of success and failure in economic development, studwell s latest work is provocative and iconoclastic and sobering reading for most of the worlds developing countries. How asia works goodreads meet your next favorite book. Asian godfathers by joe studwell overdrive rakuten.
I am sorry to be so late in clarifying that she never called anyone least of all mr lee an arrogant bastard. Asian godfathers is a riveting and illuminating book that lifts the curtain on a world of staggering secrecy and hypocrisy, and revealsfor the first timewho the leaders of one of the planets most important and tumultuous markets really are, why they got to the top, and how they keep themselves there. Mar 01, 20 deceptively short at 225 pages, this book is a highly academic dissection of the history of asian economics. Money and power in hong kong and southeast asia 9780802143914 by studwell, joe and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books available now at. He is the author of the china dream and asian godfathers read more about joe studwell.
Hello joe, congratulations on your book, asian godfathers. Joe studwell explores how policies ridiculed by economists created titans in. This is for the first time ever the explosive story of how they make, build and hold on to their fortunes. Alice amsden, who produced the defining deconstruction of korean development, referred in the introduction to a followup book to the model used by japan, korea, taiwan and thailand.
In writing names of people and places, i have attempted to use the. And he makes no claim within the book s pages that asia is the worlds most dynamic region. The most original part of the book deals with farming. Who has not read asian godfathers, a previous book from joe studwell, may start first from here to see how the master chiefs cook in the asian economic kitchens. Studwell argues that greed, corruption and excess were partly responsible for the crisis and that.
Asian godfathers goodreads meet your next favorite book. Weve seen this book described as the best business book about southeast asia ever written, and although we dont as a rule delve into business books this is. Studwell, whose asian godfathers 2007 dissected the failures of crony capitalism, argues convincingly that successful asian nations were built on radical land reform. Studwell has spent fifteen years as a reporter in the region and uses his unprecedented access to paint intimate and revealing portraits of the godfatherswho they. And he makes no claim within the books pages that asia is. Access a free summary of asian godfathers, by joe studwell and 20000 other business, leadership and nonfiction books on getabstract. Named by bill gates as one of his top 5 books of the year an economist best book of the year in the 1980s and 1990s many in the west came to believe in the myth of an eastasian economic miracle, with countries seen as not just development prodigies but as a unified bloc, culturally and economically similar, and inexorably on the rise. How asia works success and failure in the worlds most dynamic region joe studwell grove press. China economic quarterly founder studwell asian godfathers. Asian godfathers by joe studwell by richard stooker submitted on february 05, 2010 for several decades, the countries of southeast asia have been considered asian little dragons following in the footsteps of japan and south korea. Rather than lionizing his subjects as entrepreneurs or innovators, studwell undermines many of the myths, suggesting that the godfathers of asian business contribute little to.