The final secret of Asian success, Mr Studwell argues, was a cowed financial system. Captivesavers, penned in by capital controls, were ripped off by the banks, which paid low interestrates. This allowed the banks to subsidise industrial firms through their years of education.
Studwell 认为,亚洲成功的最后一条秘诀就是那种受到国家钳制的金融体系。银行提供的存款利率很低,但储户被资本管制所束缚,除了接受银行的讹诈之外别无选择。这笔资金让银行得以为产业公司提供了数年的教育经费。
Mr Studwells recipe is not original: the formula dates back at least 140 years, he shows,to Japan under the Meiji emperor. Only the first step, smallholder farming, would be backedby this newspaper. But How Asia Works is a striking and enlightening book, whichreflects the authors unusual career. Having worked as an analyst and a consultant, he wrote books on Chinas seductionof foreign businessmen and Asias crony capitalists. Then he went back to school, embarkingon a doctorate at Cambridge, home to a number of unorthodox economists.
Studwell 的秘方并非独开先河。他表示这些成功秘诀至少可以追溯到一百四十年前明治天皇统治下的日本。而本报只对其中的第一步持支持态度。不过,《亚洲是如何运作的》这本书确实富于启迪性,让人耳目一新。它折射了作者不寻常的职业生涯。Studwell 曾经在本报的姊妹公司经济学人信息部担任过分析人士,也曾经从事过咨询工作。他写过几本书,论述过中国对外商的吸引力、以及亚洲的裙带资本家等等。而后他回到校园攻读博士学位,进的正是剑桥大学这里有很多不拘传统的经济学家。
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