Thailand versus Japan: Why Was Japan First?

David Feeny and Ammar Siamwalla
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Ammar Siamwalla: Thailand Development Institute

Chapter 13 in The Institutional Foundations of East Asian Economic Development, 1998, pp 413-446 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract There are a number of important parallels in the histories of Thailand and Japan during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.2 First, both countries signed treaties with the Western powers at approximately the same time.3 In part as a result, both economies became more open at approximately the same time, although the change was more abrupt in the case of Japan than in the Thai case.4 Second, both countries faced serious threats to their sovereignty from imperialist powers. Third, both countries underwent profound political change involving elite-directed ‘reform from the top’.5 Fourth, both were successful in avoiding colonization. Fifth, both countries shared pragmatic traditions of selective borrowing of foreign ideas and technologies.

Keywords: Economic History; Community Norm; Crude Death Rate; Economic Organization; Constitutional Order (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26928-0_13

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