A Siamese Tragedy: Development and Disintegration in Modern Thailand - Softcover

Bello, Walden; Cunningham, Shea; Poh, Li Keng

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1856496643 ISBN 13: 9781856496643

Verlag: Zed Books Ltd, 1998

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'This book is essential reading for all those who still cling to the idea that Thailand offers low-income countries a model for development and who see the recent economic troubles as a temporary glitch. The authors provide a vibrant and penetrating analysis of the social, environmental and economic pitfalls of 'fast track capitalism.' - Philip Hirsch, University of Sydney 'This powerful book is about a nation that fell victim to a rapacious cult called the Market. It is a timely response to those who still insist, against all the disastrous evidence, that 'there is no alternative'. There is, of course, and there has to be.' - John Pilger 'An indispensible tool for thinking through the lessons of the crisis.' - Larry Lohmann, coauthor, Pulping the South

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Thailand has come to be known as the Fifth Tiger. Now with the economic collapse of 1997-98, this book poses the central question: how far is this a mere short-term blip or is there a real prospect of the country being pushed back into Third World status? The IMF's intervention with its irrelevant, indeed damaging, policy package promises to determine the outcome. A Siamese Tragedy argues that, even before the collapse, the Thai economy had feet of clay. Walden Bello and his co-authors show how vested interests, local and international, propelled the Thai people down a particular path which is unsustainable in terms of human exploitation, social disruption, ecological damage and economic fragility. Thailand, like rest of the world, needs to rethink the fundamentals of its economic model.

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• Verlag: Zed Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1856496643
• ISBN 13: 9781856496643
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288