Rethinking Asian Capitalism

This book attempts to reflect on the changes that Vietnam has experienced over the past 30 years, during and after DoiMoi. Through multi-dimensional empirical investigations, it aims to offer theoretical and empirical accounts for how a variety of socioeconomic regimes emerged after the end of the Cold War. Being methodologically pluralist (including both theoretical and empirical studies), it aims to give a higher profile to heterodox thinking in comparative political economy. Particular attention is given to post-socialist governance, economic transformation, land rights, trade-led growth, civil society participation, climate change, and the post-COVID 19 recovery.

This book comes at a time when great changes are about to take place in Southeast Asia, where heterodox economic development strategy is rather understudied. With Asia playing an increasingly important role in the world economy, readers wish not only to hear aboutthe economic transformation but also to see certain hidden aspects or original evidence in order that they can perceive the other dimensions put in place in a market-oriented economy. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in transitional economics, development economics and the political economy.

Auteur

TRAN Thi Anh-Dao is Associate Professor of Economics and Research Affiliate at LASTA (University of Rouen Normandy, France). From 2018 to 2020, she was posted to the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC-CNRS) and was hosted by the Southern Institute of Social Sciences (SISS-Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences).

Contenu

Chapter 1. Introduction - TRAN Thi Anh-Dao.PART I. Setting the scene over 30 years. A "lessons learned" inspectionChapter 2. The transformations of contemporary capitalisms. Seven lessons. - Robert BOYER.Chapter 3. The hybrid nature of the Vietnamese market economy: personal relationships and debt in the dairy and maize sectors - Emmanuel PANNIER & Guillaume DUTEURTRE.Chapter 4. The rise of megafarms in the Vietnamese dairy sector: a marker of a new agrarian capitalism in Asia - Guillaume DUTEURTRE, Emmanuel PANNIER & NGUYEN Mai Huong.Chapter 5. Core values in educating human resources for socio-economic transformation in Vietnam - NGUYEN Duy Mong Ha & VAN Thi Nha Truc.PART II. Existing and emerging issues in the modern society.Chapter 6. Public-Private Partnerships in Post-Socialist Urban Governance. Comparative Institutional Change in Leipzig, Shanghai and Ho Chi Minh City - NGUYEN Minh Doi.Chapter 7. Agricultural Land Conversion and Land Rights in Vietnam. A Case Study of Farmers' Resistance in the Peri-Urban areas of Hanoi - PHAN Thanh Thanh.Chapter 8. Philanthropy in Vietnam. A field study - TON-NU-THI Ninh.Chapter 9. Income-based social stratification in Vietnam, 1998-2018 - BUI The Cuong & TRUONG Si Anh.PART III. Vietnam in the regional and global settings.Chapter 10. Vietnam's WTO accession and the pathway to a global playing field. A critical perspective - Elodie MANIA, Arsène RIEBER & TRAN Thi Anh-Dao.Chapter 11. Illicit Border Trade in the Borderlands of Thailand and Lao PDR in the Context of Trade Liberalisation under AFTA - Natedao TAOTAWIN.Chapter 12. Challenging the concept of "China-world" - Anne CHENG.- PART IV. Stakes and uncertainty in a globalised world.Chapter 13. Vietnam's mode of development in the face of climate change - Etienne ESPAGNE & NGUYEN Thi Thu-Ha. Chapter 14. From global to national: Manufacturing Strategies in the US, China, Germany and Japan in comparative perspective - Wei ZHAO.Chapter 15. Time for another kind of globalization: challenges for theory and proposals - Frédéric BOCCARA. Chapter 16. Epilogue. The Lessons from Covid-19 Management in Vietnam and Post-Pandemic Prospects - Yves TIBERGHIEN.