Four Talent Giants

Gi-Wook Shin is the William J. Perry Professor of Contemporary Korea in Sociology and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, as well as the director of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University. He also runs the Stanford Next Asia Policy Lab. Shin is the author or editor of twenty-five books, including Korean Democracy in Crisis: The Threats of Illiberalism, Populism, and Polarization (2022) and Divergent Memories: Opinion Leaders and the Asia-Pacific War (Stanford, 2016).

• Tables and FiguresPreface1. Talent in the Asia-Pacific Century2. A New Framework: Talent Portfolio Theory3. Japan: Of Ours, by Ours, for Ours4. Australia: A Land of Expats5. China: Returning to Serve the Country6. India: Banking on Overseas Talent7. Talent Portfolios: No "One-Size-Fits-All" Path8. Lessons and Policy Implications for Talent PortfoliosNotesBibliographyIndex

"The Four Talent Giants is a wonderful book, full of new ideas and, especially, comparative empirical research. Gi-Wook Shin's ambitious treatment of the topic of human capital, or 'talent,' in the context of a globalized economy is very important and reading it will be a rewarding exercise for scholars, politicians, corporate leaders, and many others."—Nirvikar Singh, University of California, Santa Cruz "The current scholarly literature offers multiple country-specific talent formation studies, including those on the transformative role of skilled migration. However, few authors have dared to attempt a thorough cross-national analysis, comparing the nature and impact of policies across highly variable geopolitical contexts. The Four Talent Giants achieves this goal triumphantly, and accessibly, assessing the global implications of national experimentation for effective talent portfolio management."—Lesleyanne Hawthorne, University of Melbourne