Theory Susan
Napier. Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke (Palgrave:
2000). A sample chapter of the book is available from Palgrave in PDF
format here.
Robert Wade.
Wrote the classic text on
Taiwan's cagey developmental state, Governing the Market. Michael
Gerlach. Author of
Alliance Capitalism, the classic work describing the internal
organization of the Japanese keiretsu.
Alice
Amsden. Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late
Industrialization. How Korea got rich: by breaking every single
rule
in the IMF-World Bank playbook.
David
Friedman.
Author of The Misunderstood Miracle, covering regional
development
policy in Japan, and currently at New America foundation.
James C. Scott.
The Moral Economy of the Peasant. Peasants are
smarter than you think. Meredith
Woo-Cumings. Editor
of The Developmental State and author of Race to the Swift.