Authoritarian Capitalism

Sovereign Wealth Funds and State-Owned Enterprises in East Asia and Beyond

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Av Richard W. Carney

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Since 1945, the liberal-democratic model of capitalism spread across the globe, ultimately prevailing over communism. Over the past two decades, a new statist-authoritarian model has begun diffusing across East Asia. Rather than rejecting capitalism, authoritarian leaders harness it to uphold their rule. Based on extensive research of East Asia's largest corporations and sovereign wealth funds, this book argues that the most aggressive version of this model does not belong to China. Rather, it can be found in Malaysia and Singapore. Although these countries are small, the implications are profound because one-third of all countries in the world possess the same type of regime. With an increasing number of these authoritarian regimes establishing sovereign wealth funds, their ability to intervene in the corporate sectors of other countries is rapidly expanding.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-01-17
Mått151 x 228 x 16 mm
Vikt480 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBusiness and Public Policy
Antal sidor332
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108741880

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Richard W. Carney is a faculty member of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). His articles have appeared in journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Business and Politics, and the Review of International Political Economy. He is also the author of Contested Capitalism: The Political Origins of Financial Systems (2009) and editor of Lessons from the Asian Financial Crisis (2011). Prior to CEIBS, he held faculty positions at the Australian National University, Canberra and the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has extensive experience speaking to executives and government officials from across Asia, North America, Europe, and Australia.

1. Introduction; 2. Theory; 3. Global patterns; 4. East Asia patterns; 5. Narrow authoritarian regime: Brunei; Single party authoritarian regime: China; From single party authoritarian regime to democracy: Taiwan; 6. Dominant party authoritarian regime with a weakly dominant ruling party: Malaysia; 7. Dominant party authoritarian regime with a strongly dominant ruling party: Singapore; 8. Conclusions.

'Authoritarian Capitalism arrives at a critical historical moment. With the earlier wave of democratization stalled or in reverse, we are forced to revisit the nature of autocracy. Richard W. Carney takes this work in a new and exciting direction by looking at the foreign economic policies of authoritarian regimes, including how they propagate state-led development models and use their sovereign wealth funds. This is an ambitious contribution that goes beyond economic issues to changing politics in the Asia-Pacific and even questions of liberal and illiberal grand strategies.' Stephan Haggard, Krause Distinguished Professor, University of California, San Diego