Introduction
1. Lessons from the Asian Crisis
What sort of 'miracles'?
How did the 'meltdown' happen?
Why did it happen?
Responses
Lessons
2. Expressive Relationships and Networks with Chan Ho-mun
Challenged assumptions
Expressive and instrumental ties
Mixed ties and networks
Implications
3. The Economy and the State
Intervention and the market
The 'developmental state'
'Good governance'
The development of the debate
Networks and economic development
The end of rule by connections?
4. The Final Victory of Globalization?
Homogenization
The supranational institutions
The global market
Globalization as power struggle
What is left for the state?
Global governance for a global economy?
5. Democracy, the Economy, and the Crisis
Democracy and the crisis
Democracy and the economy
Asian democracy?
6. The Family, the Company, and the State
Rights and obligations
Politics and culture
The crisis
7. Managing the Network State
Differences among states
Trends before the crisis
The crisis and public management
Convergence
Conclusions
Economy
Politics
Labour and welfare
Managing the state
After rule by force and rule by connections?
Stability
Global market rules?