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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Amsden, Alice H. (Alice Hoffenberg) Escape from empire. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007 (OCoLC)654705047 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alice H Amsden |
| ISBN: | 9780262012348 0262012340 |
| OCLC Number: | 72354405 |
| Description: | vi, 197 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Heaven can't wait -- Where the sun never sets, and wages never rise -- Trading earth for heaven -- Angel dust -- Gift of the Gods -- The light of the moon -- Dien Bien Phu: knowledge is eternal -- To hell in a straw basket -- America's fatwas -- The devil take the hindmost -- Great balls of fire. |
| Responsibility: | Alice H. Amsden. |
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Abstract:
Argues that the more freedom a developing country has to determine its own policies, the faster its economy will grow, citing China, India, and other Asian escapees from America's strict free-market requirements as successful examples. This title describes the two eras in America's relationship with the developing world as "Heaven" and "Hell".
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"Amsden reveals with sparkle and insight how much developing countries can achieve when allowed to think for themselves."--Guo Shuqing, Chairman of the Board, China Construction Bank
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- Developing countries -- Foreign economic relations -- United States.
- United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Developing countries.
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- Ontwikkelingssamenwerking.
- Buitenlandse politiek.
- Verenigde Staten.
- Ontwikkelingslanden.
- Wirtschaftsbeziehungen.
- Wirtschaftsentwicklung.
- Entwicklungsländer.
- USA.
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