Books by Joe Studwell
Found 2 books
He has a new and excellent book coming out, namely How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World’s Last Developmental Frontier , which I consumed eagerly. You probably know his earlier book How Asia Works . So what should I ask him?
1) Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O Hirschman , by Jeremy Adelman 2) The Undercover Economist Strikes Back , by Tim Harford 3) Giving Kids a Fair Chance , by James Heckman 4) How Asia Works , by Joe Studwell 5) America’s Assembly Line , by David Nye
The author is Joe Studwell and the subtitle is Success and Failure in the World’s Most Dynamic Region . That’s an excessively bland title and subtitle, but so far this is perhaps my favorite economics book of the year. Quite simply, it is the best single treatment on what in Asian industrial policy worked or did not work, full of both analysis and specific detail, and covering southeast Asia in addition to the Asian tiger “winners.”