1 - Beyond the east asian miracle: introducing the market-enhancing view - Masahiko Aoki, Kevin Murdock and Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara 2 - The role of government in economic development: some observations from the experience of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan - Lawrence J. Lau 3 - The government-firm relationship in postwar japanese economic recovery: resolving the coordination failure by coordination in industrial rationalization - Tetsuji Okazaki 4 - The role of government in acquiring technological capability: the case of the petrochemical industry in east Asia - Hyung-Ki Kim and Jun Ma 5 - Economic development as coordination problems - Kiminori Matsuyama 6 - Financial restraint: toward a new paradigm - Thomas Hellmann, Kevin Murdock and Joseph Stiglitz 7 - Government intervention, rent distribution and economic development in Korea - Yoon Je Cho 8 - Unintended fit: organizational evolution and government design of institutions in Japan - Masahiko Aoki 9 - Institutions, state activism and economic development: a comparison of state-owned ans township-village enterprises in China - Yingyi Qian and Barry R. Weingast 10 - Sectoral resource transfer, conflict and macrostability in economic development; a comparative analysis - Juro Teranishi 11 - The political economy of growth in east Asia: a perspective on the state, market and ideology - Meredith Woo-Cumings 12 - Rents and development in multiethnic Malaysia - Jomo K. S. and Edmund Terence Gomez 13 - Toward a comparative institutional analysis of government-business relationship - Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara